1960s Timeline

May 18, 1963 - At least 27 men, women, and children drowned today when a bus carrying migrant farm workers plunged into a canal 80 miles...

Nov. 5, 1962 - In Liège, Belgium today, the mother and grandmother of a deformed thalidomide baby wept in court as they gave evidence of...

Oct. 3, 1962 - New York City fireman Robert Roth, 22, a strong man, a brave man, wept. The place was the medical examiner’s mortuary, 520...

Oct. 3, 1962 - At least 21 persons were killed and 95 injured today when a steam boiler exploded in a building of the New York Telephone...

Sept. 1, 1962 - Peter Wallace, the 19-year-old son of television commentator Mike Wallace, was found dead yesterday in a ravine south of...

Aug. 18, 1962 - Seventeen children and their Sunday School teacher drowned today when a small boat they had taken on a picnic outing sank...