1960s Timeline

Aug. 29, 1963 - Superman has volunteered to help flabby Americans regain their stamina and muscle tone. The cape-clad comic book hero,...

Aug. 29, 1963 - James Cushing (right), an American guerrilla leader who, during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War...

Aug. 28, 1963 - At today’s massive march on Washington, there was one man who touched and ignited the vast multitude most deeply: the...

Aug. 28, 1963 - More than 200,000 Americans, most of them Negroes but many of them white, demonstrated in Washington, D.C. today for a...

Aug. 28, 1963 - William Zantzinger, 24-year-old tobacco farmer, was sentenced today to six months in prison for fatally caning a Hattie...

Aug. 28, 1963 - The United States has decided that South Vietnam’s President Ngo Dinh Diem (right) must get rid of his powerful brother...

Aug. 28, 1963 - Mrs. Kenneth N. Good of San Marino, Calif., the widow of an Army captain killed Jan. 2, will be presented the first...

Aug. 27, 1963 - A vanguard of tens of thousands of Americans arrived tonight for the civil rights march on Washington D.C. The mass...

Aug. 27, 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois (left in 1958), the American Negro philosopher and writer, who settled in Ghana a few years ago, died...

Aug. 27, 1963 - President Kennedy urged the youth of America today to seek public office in their nation’s government rather than rely...

Aug. 27, 1963 - David Fellin (left) and Henry Throne (right) were lifted to safety early today in Sheppton, Pa. The two coal miners had...

Aug. 26, 1963 - The Moscow-Washington “hot line” was pronounced in working order today after a number of communications tests. Messages...

Aug. 25, 1963 - At least 600 students were arrested today in Saigon by bayonet-brandishing troops and steel-helmeted policemen moving to...

Aug. 24, 1963 - South Vietnamese soldiers arrested two American photographers and a newsman today with a shout of “to hell with...

Aug. 24, 1963 - Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower (pictured this month in Normandy) has told close political associates he intends to...

Aug. 24, 1963 - Ngo Dinh Nhu (pictured), who is reputed to be the mastermind of the South Vietnamese Government’s moves against...

Aug. 23, 1963 - The U.S. House of Representatives today slashed $585 million from the foreign aid authorization recommended by its...

Aug. 22, 1963 - Actors Paul Newman, Marlon Brando Anthony Franciosa, and William Frye arrived in Gadsden, Alabama, tonight to bolster a...

Aug. 22, 1963 - Some of the U.S. military advisers helping President Ngo Dinh Diem in his war against Communist guerrillas in South...

Aug. 22, 1963 - Major General Charles D.W. Canham (right during WWII), who accepted the surrender of 244,000 German prisoners in one day...