🚨Dodgers Complete Sweep of Yankees, Win 1963 World Series
Oct. 6, 1963 - The Dodgers brought the long reign of the high and mighty Yankees to a dramatic end today. Behind another superb pitching...
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Oct 6, 2023
Movies: “Tom Jones”
Oct. 6, 1963 - Opening today is “Tom Jones,” a British comedy film and adaptation of Henry Fielding’s classic 1749 novel “The History of...
Oct 6, 2023
Madame Nhu Calls Buddhist Demonstrators “Hooligans” and “Communists”
Oct. 6, 1963 - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu (pictured), controversial sister-in-law of the President of South Vietnam, today denied that Buddhists...
Oct 6, 2023
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Joins Pulaski Day Parade in NYC
Oct. 6, 1963 - In New York City today, about 100,000 marchers participated in the 27th annual Pulaski Day Parade, which honors Brig. Gen....
Oct 6, 2023
Raiders Shut Out in Buffalo
Oct. 6, 1963 - For the third week in a row, Oakland’s Raiders showed a sad lack of offense after an encouraging start at home. They...
Oct 5, 2023
Browns Top Steelers, Gain First Place in Eastern Conference of NFL
Oct. 5, 1963 - Frank Ryan passed for three touchdowns and ran for a fourth tonight as the Cleveland Browns gained undisputed possession...
Oct 5, 2023
Yankees in Shock
Oct. 5, 1963 - After today’s third succcessive defeat at the hands of the Dodgers, the Yankees sat around quietly, not quite believing...
Oct 5, 2023
New York Jets Take Win Third Straight Game
Oct. 5, 1963 - Given the choice of viewing Cleveland’s superb fullback Jimmy Brown on their living room T.V. or watching the Jets and...
Oct 5, 2023
Dodgers on Doorstep of Series Sweep as Drysdale Shines in L.A.
Oct. 5, 1963 - Those incredible Dodgers moved to within one stride of nailing down the World Series today as they brought down the proud...
Oct 5, 2023
British Fascist and New Wife Egged in London
Oct. 5, 1963 - More than 1,000 angry Britons hurled rotten apples and eggs instead of rice today at Colin Jordan, the British Fascist...
Oct 5, 2023
President and Aides Confident about Prospects for Re-Election
Oct. 5, 1963 - President Kennedy and his top political aides are reasonably optimistic about his prospects for re-election. They reached...
Oct 5, 2023
Another Buddhist Monk Burns Himself To Death
Oct. 5, 1963 - The political and religious crisis in South Vietnam deepened today when another Buddhist monk burned himself to death —...
Oct 4, 2023
First Lady Sets Sail for Turkey
Oct. 4, 1963 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy (pictured yesterday in Greece) set sail from Greece tonight on an Aegean cruise to Turkey on...
Oct 4, 2023
President Kennedy’s Upcoming Out-of-Town Schedule
Oct. 4, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured yesterday at Little Rock Air Force Base), just back from a one-day trip to Arkansas, has at...
Oct 3, 2023
Whitey Ford: “This Club Won’t Quit”
Oct. 3, 1963 - The Yankee clubhouse after today’s loss to Johnny Podres (pictured) and the Dodgers was ominously quiet, but you couldn’t...
Oct 3, 2023
Podres Tames Yankee Bats as Dodgers Go Up 2-0
Oct. 3, 1963 - Johnny Podres, who can frustrate his followers by pitching lousy ball and then amaze them with a gem, today reasserted his...
Oct 3, 2023
President Kennedy Dedicates Dam in Arkansas
Oct. 3, 1963 - President Kennedy, visiting Arkansas to dedicate a dam in the “new South,” heard his civil rights proposals branded as...
Oct 2, 2023
Yankees Impressed by Koufax
Oct. 2, 1963 - The New York Yankees, slightly subdued, moderately impressed, and completely unshaken, regrouped in their dressing room...
Oct 2, 2023
Dodgers Take Game 1 of Series as Koufax Fans 15
Oct. 2, 1963 - The Dodgers defeated the Yankees, 5-2, in the first game of the 1963 World Series today in the Bronx. The man of the day...
Oct 2, 2023
Kennedy Administration Says Vietnam War Could Be Won by 1965
Oct. 2, 1963 - The U.S said tonight that the war in South Vietnam might be won by the end of 1965 if the political crisis there did not...
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