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
Politics & War
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
August 5, 1964 — The first Anti-Vietnam War protest in Australia
It started off small – although by 1964 standards, 2000 people gathered outside the American Consulate in Prahran, Victoria probably...
June 14, 2017
March 7, 1965 — The Selma to Montgomery March begins
The Selma to Montgomery marches were a series of civil rights protests held in Alabama during March 1965. The first...
June 9, 2017
April 28, 1965 — US Marines occupy Santo Domingo
The Dominican Civil War was not even a week old before Lyndon Johnson decided that it posed a threat to...
June 1, 2017
January 3, 1967 — Jack Ruby dies
On November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby changed the course of history when he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before...
April 19, 2017
January 17, 1967 — The County Borough of Blackburn reports on its potholes
The County Borough of Blackburn was, in 1967, the governing body of the Blackburn area. Blackburn is an industrial town...
April 14, 2017
November 9, 1967 — The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the stands
From slight beginnings, Rolling Stone magazine would go on to become one of the world’s great organs of music journalism,...
February 22, 2017
February 8, 1968 — Police shoot black protestors in Orangeburg, South Carolina, killing three
About 200 protestors gathered outside a bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina to demonstrate in favour of the civil rights...
January 29, 2017
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