1960s Timeline

Nov. 1, 1962 - Pocket-sized computers may eliminate the housewife’s weekly shopping list. Electronic communication would tell the store...

Mar. 12, 1962 - Pan American World Airways signed a multimillion-dollar contract today for a worldwide electronic reservations and...

Sept. 17, 1961 - Despite hitting his 57th home run yesterday, Roger Maris's chances of breaking Babe Ruth's home-run record are extremely...

Aug. 29, 1961 - A baseball expert who has never watched a game or read a box score was confronted today with one of the year's most...

Aug. 5, 1961 - A graduate student at Columbia University has enlisted the aid of a modern electronic computer to solve a problem of...