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...
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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...
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