1960s Timeline

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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