1960s Timeline

Aug. 22, 1963 - Tran Van Chuong, South Vietnam’s once-influential Ambassador to the U.S., resigned today in angry protest against his...

Aug. 21, 1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem’s troops and police shot their way into Saigon’s main Buddhist pagoda today and...

Aug. 21, 1963 - A bomb blasted the garage of a Negro integration leader last night in Birmingham, Ala., and 2,000 angry Negroes rushed to...

Aug. 20, 1963 - Pictured left below is Mark Bruce, 9, of Columbia, Mo., being kissed today by a puppy named Streaker at Columbia airport....

Aug. 20, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured in 1961) was asked today whether he believed “the radical right” had captured Senator Barry...

Aug. 20, 1963 - President Kennedy said today that he disapproved of employment quotas based on race. This device has been proposed as a...

Aug. 20, 1963 - Al Davis (left with Art Powell), coach of the American Football League’s Oakland Raiders, expressed disappointment over...

Aug. 19, 1963 - Governor Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma (pictured), the lone Republican voice at the Southern Governors Conference, said today...

Aug. 18, 1963 - Two happy youngsters got the word today: they will receive White House puppies. The pups, Butterfly and Streaker, are...

Aug. 18, 1963 - Communist North Vietnam’s official newspaper today described Henry Cabot Lodge (pictured), the new U.S. Ambassador to...

Aug. 18, 1963 - James Meredith received a degree from the University of Mississippi today. He thus became the first Negro alumnus in the...

Aug. 18, 1963 - About 15,000 Buddhists, most of them young people, crowded around Xa Loi Pagoda in Saigon today and pledged to fast in...

Aug. 17, 1963 - Dick Gregory, the Negro comedian, started work today as a reporter on the inmates’ newspaper in Chicago’s Bridewell Jail....

Aug. 17, 1963 - Thousands of West Berliners filed silently past a wooden cross on the western side of the Communist wall today. In small...

Aug. 16, 1963 - Mrs. Susan Bedal of Burbank, Calif., received notification today from the Air Force in Washington of the death of her...

Aug. 16, 1963 - Mrs. Madalyn Murray (left) today accepted a deed to 80 acres of land near Stockton, Kansas, for her proposed atheist...

Aug. 15, 1963 - Former President Eisenhower, returning today from a brief tour of World War II invasion beaches in France, strongly...

Aug. 15, 1963 - A 71-year-old monk burned himself to death in Hue’s biggest pagoda early today, the second Buddhist protest suicide in 24...

Aug. 15, 1963 - President Kennedy held a final conference today with his new Ambassador to South Vietnam, Henry Cabot Lodge, who leaves...

Aug. 14, 1963 - These are dog days around the Kennedy family. Another dog turned up today, and not even Press Secretary Pierre Salinger...