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The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm,…
The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm,…
The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak (first flag pictured), the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day.
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised…
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South…
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South…
American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on…
The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the…
The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing…
The 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan,…
Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of…
Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of…
The U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program, its main economic support for South Vietnam, in response to the…
The U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program, its main economic support for South Vietnam, in response to the…
The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those…
The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those…
The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those…
The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business