Video: 'Khrushchev Resigns - Oct. 15, 1964 Universal News - Reel America'

(Wednesday, October 14, 1964) — Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was deposed as leader of the Soviet Union today when the Presidium and the Central Committee each voted to accept Khrushchev’s “voluntary” retirement from his offices.

It was announced the following day that he’d been succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as first secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as premier.