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Apr 9, 2023

Sir Winston a U.S. Citizen

Apr. 9, 1963 - Sir Winston Churchill (pictured with his granddaughter) became an honorary U.S. citizen today and seized the occasion to...

Apr 9, 2023

Apr. 9, 1963 | JFK Confers U.S. Citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill

Apr. 9, 1963 - Here is a recording of President Kennedy’s remarks upon signing a proclamation conferring honorary citizenship on Sir...

Apr 8, 2023

President Kennedy Honors Bataan Day

Apr. 8, 1963 - President Kennedy issued a statement today commemorating the 21st anniversary of the battle of Bataan and Corregidor. In...

Mar 11, 2023

Austria Observes 25th Anniversary of Anschluss

Mar. 11, 1963 - Austria observed today the 25th anniversary of the day — March 11, 1938 — it disappeared from the European map a quarter...

Feb 26, 2023

President’s PT-Boat Incident of 1943 Described as “Confused and Ineffective”

Feb. 26, 1963 - The World War II naval engagement that saw Lieutenant John F. Kennedy’s patrol boat sunk has drawn a description as a...

Feb 24, 2023

West German Students Remember Hans and Sophie Scholl, Executed by Nazis

Feb. 24, 1963 - West German university students observed this weekend the 20th anniversary of the execution of Hans and Sophie Scholl...

Jan 26, 2023

General MacArthur Celebrates 83rd Birthday

Jan. 26, 1963 - Old soldier Douglas MacArthur celebrated his 83rd birthday today with five young soldiers, including the son of America’s...

Jan 19, 2023

Ernst Togler, Accused of Plotting Reichstag Fire in 1933, Dies at 69

Jan. 19, 1963 - Ernst Torgler (pictured second from right in 1933), the German Communist who was accused of plotting the Reichstag fire...

Jan 1, 2023

TV: Tonight on “Combat!”

Jan. 1, 1963 - Tonight on “Combat,” Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow, pictured) begins to suspect a private’s French doctor father is really a...

Dec 26, 2022

European Christians Who Helped Jews in WWII To Be Acclaimed as “Righteous Gentiles”

Dec. 26, 1962 - European Christians who secretly befriended Jews in Nazi-occupied countries will now be acclaimed. Jews in free-world...

Dec 5, 2022

West Germany Asks Chile to Extradite Former Nazi

Dec. 5, 1962 - West Germany has asked the Chilean Government to extradite Walter Rauff, an alleged former collaborator of Adolf Eichmann....

Nov 25, 2022

Kilroy is Dead

Nov. 25, 1962 - James J. Kilroy (pictured in 1946), who maintained that he was the original Kilroy of the famous “Kilroy was here”...

Nov 21, 2022

Gestapo Collaborator Arrested in France

Nov. 21, 1962 - In a suburb of Lille, France today, Jacques Vasseur (pictured) left his mother’s house for the first time in 17 years....

Oct 9, 2022

Otto Preminger to Produce “Harm’s Way”

Oct. 9, 1962 - Now that Darryl F. Zanuck has definitively documented the Army’s European campaign on D-Day, Otto Preminger (right) combat...

Oct 2, 2022

Gen. Henry Louis Larsen Dead at 71

Oct. 2, 1962 - Lieut. Gen. Henry L. Larsen (pictured in 1945), a much-decorated retired Marine Corps officer, died of a heart attack at...

Sep 25, 2022

Movies: “The Longest Day”

Sept. 25, 1962 - Opening in local theatres today is “The Longest Day,” an epic black-and-white war film based on Cornelius Ryan’s 1959...

Aug 25, 2022

Medal of Honor Winner to Retire Sept. 1

Aug. 25, 1962 - A soldier who won the Medal of Honor in World War II for rushing into the fire of three German machine guns and...

Aug 23, 2022

Aug. 23, 1962 JFK to WWII Vets

Aug. 23, 1962 - President Kennedy delivers remarks via telephone from the Oval Office to the American Veterans of World War II (AMVETS) ...

Aug 21, 2022

Sir Winston Goes Home

Aug. 21, 1962 - Sir Winston Churchill returned to his London home today after 54 days in Middlesex Hospital convalescing from a fractured...

Aug 10, 2022

Ike Visits Sir Winston in Hospital

Aug. 10, 1962 - Former President Eisenhower visited Sir Winston Churchill in London’s Middlesex Hospital today and reported that “he...