1960s Timeline

Nov. 30, 1962 - Sir Winston Churchill, celebrating his 88th birthday today, walked unaided to the window of his London residence and...

May 29, 1962 - President Kennedy (pictured at his celebration 10 days ago at Madison Square Garden) celebrated his actual 45th birthday...

May 19, 1962 - President Kennedy attended a glittering birthday dinner in his honor tonight at the Four Seasons restaurant — a prelude to...

May 19, 1962 - Madison Square Garden became a blur of dancers, singers, actors, and musicians this morning and afternoon as show business...

May 9, 1962 - An advance sale of “well over” 400 tickets at $1,000 each for the “New York Birthday Salute to President Kennedy” was...

Apr. 2, 1962 - President Kennedy accepted today an invitation from Mayor Wagner of New York City to attend a Democratic fund-raising...

Jan. 26, 1962 - General of the Army Douglas MacArthur celebrated his 82nd birthday in New York today, saying that he had “reached an age...

Jan. 25, 1962 - Mrs. Eliza (Granny) Harper, who remembers seeing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (pictured) parade in Brooklyn after the Civil War,...

Sept. 1, 1961 - Anna Mary Robertson Moses, the American folk artist better known as Grandma Moses, approaches her 101st birthday still...