In East Berlin, there are ceremonies marking the 15th anniversary of the founding of the GDR. Walter Ulbricht announces an amnesty for some 10,000 prisoners, including political prisoners. - The GDR denies a report by the newspaper “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” that the GDR has for a long time been allowing political prisoners to leave for West Germany in return for economic assistance.
14 October
1964
The Soviet party and state leader Nikita S. Khrushchev is toppled in the CPSU Central Committee. The main criticisms levelled at him are regarding his failed economic policies and the troubled relations with the People's Republic of China. His successor is Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.