1960s Timeline

July 20, 1963 - Delegates of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain reached tentative agreement tonight on a draft treaty...

July 20, 1963 - Apparently mistaking each other for Communist guerrillas, U.S. soldiers exchanged fire in darkness at an airstrip 65...

July 20, 1963 - If the nation’s governors are an accurate political barometer, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York has little...

July 19, 1963 - Surrounded by nieces and nephews, President Kennedy watched proudly today as Richard Cardinal Cushing, the Archbishop of...

July 19, 1963 - President Kennedy today personally congratulated pilot Betty Verret Miller, the first woman to fly alone across the...

July 19, 1963 - One of the leaders of the Communist Viet Cong warned the United States today that the guerrilla fighting in South Vietnam...

July 19, 1963 - The owners of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, located just outside Baltimore city limits and the scene of mass civil rights...

July 18, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy denied today that the Administration’s civil rights bill would “improperly” interfere...

July 18, 1963 - President Kennedy was mobbed today at the White House by more than 2,500 foreign students who converged on him in the...

July 18, 1963 - Three American Special Forces men were slain in a Communist ambush on “Bloody Route 13” this morning, bringing to 89 the...

July 17, 1963 - Following are highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Nuclear Testing — President Kennedy pledged that...

July 17, 1963 - President Ngo Dinh Diem’s government cracked down hard today on Buddhist street demonstrations in a church-state struggle...

July 17, 1963 - President Kennedy had words of advice and warning today for both civil rights demonstrators and ardent segregationists....

July 17, 1963 - United States Air Force Captain Condon H. Terry’s widow, Audrey, is proud of what he fought and died for. Terry, 30, was...

July 16, 1963 - Former Vice President Nixon said today that the extreme right wing could hurt the Republican party, but he expressed...

July 16, 1963 - President Kennedy told graduates of the NATO defense school today that the North American Treaty Organization must be...

July 16, 1963 - Premier Fidel Castro declared himself a supporter of peaceful coexistence at a French Embassy reception last night. This...

July 15, 1963 - President Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika arrived in Washington today for a two-day official visit and pointed to the...

July 15, 1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace challenged the Kennedy Administration today to submit its civil rights legislation to a...

July 14, 1963 - Kenneth O’Donnell (pictured), one of President Kennedy’s closest White House confidants, said today he expects Mr....