1960s Timeline

Mar. 28, 1962 - The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, flew to the village of Binh Hung in South Vietnam...

Mar. 26, 1962 - A comprehensive plan to pacify South Vietnam has started modestly in the forests north of Saigon. Last Thursday,...

Mar. 26, 1962 - At least 50 French civilians were killed and about 150 wounded in Algiers today as French Army forces clashed with...

Mar. 24, 1962 - The United States is quietly supporting an irregular army called the Sea Swallows, left by an expatriate Chinese Roman...

Mar. 23, 1962 - One of the battles being fought in South Vietnam involves the problem of finding out what is going on and reporting it to...

Mar. 23, 1962 - President de Gaulle ordered today the “pitiless” repression of “the armed insurrection” in Algeria. He declared that...

Mar. 22, 1962 - "Airport in the Jet Age" is an educational film about modern airplane travel. #history #1960s #historyinpictures...

Mar. 22, 1962 - The Air Force ejected a bear strapped inside a capsule from a B-58 traveling 870 miles an hour at an altitude of 35,000...

Mar. 22, 1962 - United States authorities are cautiously optimistic that the tide may soon start turning against the Communists in South...

Mar. 22, 1962 - East German policemen fired at a car of the U.S. military mission attached to Soviet forces in East Germany, an Army...

Mar. 21, 1962 - French military policemen battled with Right-Wing terrorists in the center of Oran, Algeria, for two hours today....

Mar. 20, 1962 - C. Wright Mills (pictured), author and Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, died today of a heart attack in his...

Mar. 18, 1962 - The White House hailed the French-Algerian cease-fire today as a “historic accomplishment.” In a statement approved by...

Mar. 18, 1962 - A cease-fire ending the Algerian war was signed in France today by French and Algerian delegations. The document...

Mar. 17, 1962 - The Soviet Union accused the U.S. today of fighting an “undeclared war” in South Vietnam and demanded the immediate...

Mar. 17, 1962 - United States Army helicopters flew within a half-mile of the Cambodian frontier Thursday to land Vietnamese troops. This...

Mar. 16, 1962 - In a speech calling for disarmament and the early conclusion of a German peace treaty, Premier Khrushchev warned the U.S....

Mar. 15, 1962 - A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation carrying 107 persons, including 93 U.S. soldiers, disappeared during a night...

Mar. 15, 1962 - Asked today about the United States’ huge military training program in South Vietnam, Secretary of Defense Robert S....

Mar. 14, 1962 - United States pilots flying American-made planes spearheaded a major counterattack last week which resulted in one of...