1960s Timeline

Aug. 16, 1962 - Bella Darvi (pictured), the French motion picture actress, was found unconscious before dawn today in her hotel room in...

July 31, 1962 - Mrs. Sherri Finkbine (pictured), host of the Arizona edition of the nationally syndicated television show “Romper Room,”...

July 30, 1962 - A total of 1,229 physicians in 39 states and the District of Columbia and 1 in Canada received test samples of...

July 27, 1962 - The Government doctor who prevented the drug Thalidomide from being sold commercially in the U.S. said today that several...

July 24, 1962 - Controversy raged in Phoenix today over a proposed abortion for Sherri Finkbine (pictured), a young Phoenix mother and...

July 15, 1962 - A woman doctor was reported today to have prevented the birth of perhaps thousands of deformed babies in this country....

June 13, 1962 - A narcotics expert suggested today that all “hard-core” heroin users be confined to prisons or work camps because no...

June 7, 1962 - Shane R. O’Neill (pictured in 1959), the 43-year-old son of the late playwright Eugene O’Neill, was arrested early today...

Apr. 11, 1962 - The birth of thousands of deformed babies in Europe has led an American physician to appeal for stricter Federal...

Apr. 4, 1962 - A prominent French television figure, a Parisian nightclub owner, and a Brooklyn father and son pleaded not guilty in...

Feb. 25, 1962 - New York City detectives and Federal narcotics agents seized pure heroin worth $20 million last night after subduing a...

Jan. 30, 1962 - A criminal case against Ray Charles (pictured in court today), the blind singer-pianist, was dismissed in Indianapolis...

Jan. 25, 1962 - The New York Board of Regents today upheld the refusal of the motion picture division of the State Department of...

Jan. 19, 1962 - Five persons were held today in $100,000 bail each as a result of a Brooklyn raid Thursday in which $3,500,000 worth of...

Jan. 18, 1962 - Raw heroin estimated to be worth $3,500,000 in the illicit market was found in the ceiling of a Brooklyn tenement today...

Jan. 1, 1962 - Barbara Burns (pictured after a 1958 narcotics arrest), 23-year-old daughter of the late Bob Burns, the comedian, died...

Dec. 8, 1961 - Marijuana smoking among Harlem teenagers is almost as common as the use of regular cigarettes, a Negro Democratic leader...

Oct. 21, 1961 - There will not be much variety this week in the dramatic themes of television adventure and crime shows on ABC. Four...

Aug. 13, 1961 - Commissioner George P. Larrick of the Food and Drug Administration said today that stricter laws were needed to control...