1960s Timeline

May 25, 1962 - Disaster engulfed the Mets on all fronts tonight as the Dodgers swept the three-game series with a crushing 17-8 triumph...

May 25, 1962 - The Project Mercury medical team pronounced Lieut. Commander Scott Carpenter today to have come through five hours in...

May 25, 1962 - Frankie Carbo went to Alcatraz Penitentiary today at his own request. The 57-year-old underworld figure had been in Los...

May 25, 1962 - Now that Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter has duplicated the success of Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. on a three-orbit...

May 25, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy received two awards in New York City yesterday. In the afternoon, he was given the...

May 24, 1962 - Willie Mays hit a pair of home runs today as the San Francisco Giants scored a 7-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies....

May 24, 1962 - It seems fitting that Lieut. Comdr. Scott Carpenter’s reasons for naming his spacecraft Aurora VII are both lofty and...

May 24, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that the courage of Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter and the skill and initiative of his...

May 24, 1962 - The overshoot of Lieut. Comdr. Carpenter’s space capsule (pictured left) was said to have been caused by the fact that the...

May 24, 1962 - Lieutenant Commander Scott Carpenter became today the second American astronaut to orbit the earth. His three-orbit trip...

May 24, 1962 - The South Vietnamese Seventh Division continued today to inflict heavy casualties on a Communist guerrilla force trapped...

May 24, 1962 - In Saigon today, a special military tribunal sentenced three Vietnamese to death for having plotted to assassinate the...

May 24, 1962 - President Kennedy, using a silver trowel, helped lay the cornerstone today of the $70 million Sam Rayburn House office...

May 23, 1962 - The Mets, from their remote position in ninth place, made a heroic effort tonight in Los Angeles to make their presence...

May 23, 1962 - Maybe it was the sight of Mickey Mantle. Maybe it was Kansas City pitching. Attribute it to what you may, the Yankees...

May 23, 1962 - Released from Lenox Hill Hospital at noon, Mickey Mantle appeared in the Yankee dressing room on crutches at 1:15 p.m....

May 23, 1962 - The NFL increased the salary of its commissioner, Pete Rozelle, by $10,000 to $60,000 a year today. Rozelle was awarded a...

May 23, 1962 - Following are the highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Refugees — He disclosed that a limited number...

May 23, 1962 - President Kennedy promised reporters today to give them an answer next week on the Government’s attitude toward studies...

May 23, 1962 - Senator Jacob K. Javits today became the first prominent Republican political leader to propose Governor Rockefeller as...