January 8, 1959 — Cuban Revolution ends in Communist victory
The fall of Cuba’s Batista government, after six years of fighting between government forces and Castro’s revolutionary army, was officially...
January 19, 2018
Politics & War
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
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
September 30, 1962 — César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers
César Chávez is perhaps the most famous Latino or Mexican-American civil rights activist in history. He was a very astute...
September 9, 2017
October 27, 1962 — Vasily Arkhipov prevents the Cuban Missile Crisis from escalating
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov was a Soviet Navy officer with the rank of Flotilla Commander who saw action during the Cuban...
September 7, 2017
February 19, 1963 — Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” is published
“The Feminine Mystique” is the book most credited with kick-starting Second Wave Feminism. Betty Friedan took aim at a number...
August 29, 2017
June 21, 1963 — Giovani Montini becomes Pope Paul VI
Cardinal Montini of Milan has been considered by some as a potential papal candidate in 1958, but as a non-member...
August 9, 2017
November 22, 1963 — U.S. President John F Kennedy is assassinated
One of the defining events of its era, the assassination of President Kennedy remains a remarkably controversial one, even today....
July 24, 2017
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