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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…
Lê Quang Tung, loyalist head of the South Vietnam Special Forces, was executed in a U.S.-backed coup against president…
President Ngô Đình Diệm (pictured) of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by…
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed by the junta of General Dương Văn Minh to head the South Vietnamese government, five…
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed by the junta of General Dương Văn Minh to head the South Vietnamese government, five…
A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist…
South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm (pictured) was arrested and assassinated in Saigon, marking the culmination…
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
Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic…
The United States conducted the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test, the largest nuclear explosion in outer space.
In a seminal moment for pop art, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los…