1960s Timeline

Oct. 21, 1961 - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (pictured with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem) and his chief aides made an extensive air...

Oct. 19, 1961 - The Communists are offering prizes to children who betray people, including family members, trying to escape from East...

Oct. 19, 1961 - The Communist North Vietnamese delegation at the Laotian conference in Geneva assailed the United States today for having...

Oct. 18, 1961 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured the day before his inauguration in 1953) said today that the Western...

Oct. 18, 1961 - Following are highlights of Premier Khrushchev’s speech yesterday at the 22nd congress of the Soviet Communist party in...

Oct. 18, 1961 - President Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) placed South Vietnam in a “state of emergency” today after announcing that Col. Hoang...

Oct. 17, 1961 - The U.S. called upon the Soviet Union today to reconsider the planned explosion of a fifty-megaton atomic weapon. Such an...

Oct. 17, 1961 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured in Warsaw in 1945) said today that he did “not know the right answer to...

Oct. 17, 1961 - Premier Khrushchev said today that he would withdraw his deadline for a German peace treaty this year if the Western...

Oct. 16, 1961 - Seven hundred troops of the U.S. Eighth Infantry Division will be brought to Normandy from West Germany next week to help...

Oct. 16, 1961 - President Urho K. Kekkonen (left) of Finland assured President Kennedy today that his country’s main purpose was “the...

Oct. 16, 1961 - According to reports, a Viet Cong unit of battalion strength overwhelmed a South Vietnamese civil guard garrison last...

Oct. 15, 1961 - New York’s Empire State Federation of teachers today called nuclear-shelter drills in public schools “utter futility.”...

Oct. 15, 1961 - After years of delays and deficiencies in the program to equip Army troops with the new M-14 rifle, officials say that...

Oct. 15, 1961 - Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (pictured) left for South Vietnam today and indicated that the U.S. would be reluctant to commit...

Oct. 14, 1961 - Richard M. Nixon said today that current polls show President Kennedy “riding high” politically. But he added that...

Oct. 14, 1961 - Pierre Salinger (pictured right), presss secretary, said today that the White House was paying for the series of...

Oct. 14, 1961 - President Kennedy has asked the mission to South Vietnam headed by Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor (left) to make a broad study of...

Oct. 14, 1961 - The largest air-defense maneuvers ever held in the Western world were concluded early today. For 12 hours, from 1 p.m....

Oct. 14, 1961 - Recent Soviet moves in the Berlin crisis have strengthened the conviction in Washington that Premier Khrushchev is less...