1960s Timeline

Mar. 31, 1964 - Seventy-five years ago today, the last bit of iron was put into place and the French Tricolor was raised over what was to...

Mar. 31, 1964 - The 72-year-old mother of the Governor of Massachusetts was jailed today for leading racial demonstrations in St....

Mar. 31, 1964 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Minister of Industry in Cuba, welcomed today a declaration last week by U.S. Senator J.W....

Mar. 30, 1964 - Senator Wayne Morse, Democrat of Oregon, said today that the Johnson Administration “must be repudiated” unless it...

Mar. 30, 1964 - Astronaut John Glenn announced from his hospital bed today that he was pulling out of the Senate race in Ohio. The former...

Mar. 29, 1964 - A destructive, death-dealing earthquake struck the city of Anchorage and several smaller Alaskan towns this week. In...

Mar. 29, 1964 - Whites and Negroes in Birmingham, Ala., long estranged by racial discord, found common ground today in an Easter service...

Mar. 28, 1964 - The Rev. Billy Graham says he hopes his Easter Sunday service in Birmingham, Ala., tomorrow before an integrated audience...

Mar. 28, 1964 - Tidal waves 12 to 15 feet high, set off by the Alaskan earthquake, swept out of the Pacific early today and wrecked the...

Mar. 28, 1964 - A top intelligence officer was sentence today to death for crimes he committed while he served the regime of the late...

Mar. 27, 1964 - Army Special Forces troopers bound for South Vietnam are being given a one-pound survival kit to enable them to evade the...

Mar. 27, 1964 - A destructive, death-dealing earthquake struck the city of Anchorage and several smaller Alaskan towns today. In Juneau,...

Mar. 27, 1964 - Two American airmen were reported missing today on a reconnaissance flight over South Vietnam. A third United States...

Mar. 26, 1964 - Malcolm X, former spokesman for the Nation of Islam and now Black Nationalist leader, said today in Washington that he...

Mar. 26, 1964 - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy has chosen the author to write what she hopes will be the authoritative story of the...

Mar. 26, 1964 - The Johnson Administration forcefully rejected today “withdrawal,” “neutralization,” or “peace at any price,” in the war...

Mar. 25, 1964 - Senator Barry Goldwater, in the city where Robert McNamara became famous as a car-builder, delivered his most scathing...

Mar. 25, 1964 - The Johnson Administration has opened a campaign to help break through bureaucratic, industrial, and shipping bottlenecks...

Mar. 24, 1964 - Rioting marked by numerous injuries and considerable property damage plagued Jacksonville, Fla., for the second...

Mar. 24, 1964 - Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson spent a day full of both future and past at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.,...