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October 1964
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Brezhnev comes to power
On the same day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy of nonviolence in the pursuit of civil rights for black Americans, Nikita Khrushchev is removed from power in Moscow, replaced by Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin.
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