January 4, 1960 — Albert Camus dies
Albert Camus was not an existentialist. He’d have been the first one to tell you that. He was mates with...
December 4, 2017
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January 25, 1960 — The NAB announces fines for DJs found accepting payola
While there had been rumours about payola in the music industry for years, the practice became more prevalent in the...
November 29, 2017
May 16, 1960 — Khrushchev demands that Eisenhower apologise for U-2 spy flights
On May 1, American pilot Gary Powers was shot down while flying a Lockheed U-2 over the USSR on a...
November 24, 2017
January 27, 1961 — Soviet submarine S-80 is lost with all hands in the Arctic Sea
Originally launched on October 21, 1950 at Krasnoye Sormovo Factory in Gorky, the S-80 was a Whiskey Class submarine, and...
November 4, 2017
May 25, 1961 — Kennedy pledges to put a man on the Moon by the decade’s end
It was a bold announcement at the time – at any time, really. When JFK addressed a joint session of...
October 29, 2017
June 1, 1961 — “Stranger in a Strange Land” is published
One of the most famous science fiction novels of all time, Robert Anson Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land” remains...
October 24, 2017
October 5, 1961 — “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” premieres
Breakfast at Tiffany’s is perhaps the single best known film of Audrey Hepburn’s career. Less well-remembered for it is the...
October 19, 2017
January 9, 1962 — The first batch of Rainbow Herbicides arrives in Vietnam
Give the US Army some credit: their solution to the fact that they were ill-trained for fighting in jungles was...
October 14, 2017
May 23, 1962 — Graham Young is arrested for murder
Graham Young was only 14 years old when he was arrested for murder – and the murder in question was...
October 9, 2017
August 5, 1962 — Marilyn Monroe dies in suspicious circumstances
Was it suicide? Was she killed? Or was it an accidental overdose, like the death certificate claimed? Marilyn Monroe was...
October 4, 2017
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