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Jan 11 In his inaugural speech as governor of Alabama, George Wallace proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."

Feb 8 Iraq's ruler, General Kassem, is overthrown in a coup led members of his military and the Ba'ath party. After a quick trial he is shot. Kassem had suppressed the Communist Party in Iraq, and now the killing of Communists, other leftist intellectuals and trade unionists begins. Saddam Hussein, a junior member and former hit man for the Ba'ath Party, returns to Iraq.

Feb 27 The leftist former professor, Juan Bosch, takes office as President of the Dominican Republic.

Mar 22 In Britain a leading Conservative Party leader and Minister of War, John Profumo, denies to the House of Commons that back in 1961 he had been involved with Christine Keeler, who is known to have been involved with a Soviet attaché.

Mar 31 The last of the streetcars disappear in Los Angeles.

Apr 1 In Dallas, at his second job since returning from the Soviet Union, Lee Harvey Oswald has been rude with his fellow workers and inefficient at his job - as a photoprint trainee. A supervisor finds him on his lunch break reading the Soviet Union's satirical magazine Krokodil - available in the United States as part of a cultural exchange agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet union. Oswald is fired.

Apr 8 U.S. advisors complain that Diem's forces in the Mekong Delta are hampering the war effort by their reluctance to take casualties.

Apr 10 In Dallas, Oswald fires his rifle into the home of the former general and outspoken anti-Communist, Edwin Walker, barely missing Walker. Oswald returns home with his rifle, undetected.

Apr 20 President Sukarno of Indonesia endorses Beijing's foreign policies in exchange for Beijing's support for Sukarno's opposition to the formation of the new state of Malaysia.

May 1 The UN hands control over what had been Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia.

May 8 In Vietnam, Buddha's birthday is being celebrated. President Diem, a Roman Catholic, has a law against Buddhists displaying their flag. The Buddhists are aware of Papal flags having been flown, and they line streets defiantly flying their flag. Diem sends troops in armored vehicles against them. Nine Buddhists are killed. Diem accuses the Buddhists of sympathizing with the Communists.

May 11 In a television interview, Fidel Castro, recently returned from red carpet treatment in the Soviet Union, says that the United States has "taken some steps in the way of peace" in its relations with Cuba and that these might be the basis of better relations.

May 22 In Greece, the popular member of parliament, Grigoris Lambrakis is intentionally run down by a truck.

May 27 Lambrakis dies. Unrest follows, with the government castigated as a moral accomplice in the death of Lambrakis.

Jun 5 John Profumo confesses that he misled the House of Commons back in March. He resigns.

Jun 12 The Field Director of the NAACP in Mississippi, Medgar Evers, is shot and killed in front of his home.

Jun 11 At a busy intersection in Saigon, a Buddhist Monk, sets himself on fire - a scene televised across the world. President Diem's sister in law, Madam Nhu, acting first lady of Diem's regime, says she would "clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show."

Jun 11 In Alabama, federal troops force Governor George Wallace to allow black students to enter the University of Alabama.

Jun 16 The Soviet Union sends the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, into space.

Jun 17 The US Supreme Court rules 8-1 to strike down rules requiring the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or reading of Biblical verses in public schools.

Jun 20 The United States and Soviet Union agree to a communications hot line between the two powers and sign a treaty limiting nuclear testing.

July 19 Since May, Lee Harvey Oswald has been working at the Reilly Coffee Company. He is fired from this third job since having returned from the Soviet Union.

Aug 3 Madam Nhu accuses Buddhist leaders of treason, murder and describes them as "so-called holy men who use Communist tactics."

Aug 4 In Vietnam another Buddhist priest burns himself to death.

Aug 9 Buddhist leaders, fearing more suicide demonstrations, prohibit suicide by fire.

Aug 11 U.S. intelligence becomes aware of "deep and smoldering" resentment against Diem in his army.

Aug 12 President Betancourt of Venezuela wants the former dictator Perez Jiminez back in Venezuela to face charges of embezzling 13 million dollars. After careful legal study the Kennedy administration extradites him.

Aug 12 In Vietnam an 18-year-old Buddhist girl maims herself in protest against Diem's religious policies.

Aug 13 A 17-year-old Buddhist student priest burns himself to death.

Aug 15 A Buddhist nun, in her twenties, burns herself to death.

Aug 16 A 71-year-old Buddhist monk burns himself to death in the city of Hue.

Aug. 17 Forty-seven faculty members at the University of Hue resign to protest the Government's discharge of the Roman Catholic rector of the university and what they call government "indifference" toward settling a 14-week-old religious crisis.

Aug 18 At the Xa Loi pagoda in Saigon, about 15,000 Buddhists, most of them young people, sit-in and commit to a hunger strike.

Aug 21 Hundreds of heavily armed policemen and soldiers, firing pistols and using tear-gas bombs and hand grenades, swarm into the Xa Loi pagoda.

Aug 22 The U.S. State Department criticizes Diem's government for violating its assurances that a reconciliation with Buddhists was being sought.

Aug 23 In Vietnam, David Halberstam of the New York Times reports growing anti-American feeling and student unrest.

Aug 25 In response to student unrest, Diem's regime announces the closure of all public and private secondary schools and Saigon's university.

Aug 28 At the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King makes his "I have a dream" speech.

Sep 6 Senator Barry Goldwater urges postponing the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Sep 16 Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo are united into the Federation of Malaysia.

Sep 21 The government of Indonesia announces the takeover of all British Companies.

Sep 23 During an interview by Walter Cronkite, President Kennedy says that South Vietnam's Government cannot win its war against the Communists unless it recovers popular support. He also expresses a domino theory: that "if we withdrew from Vietnam, the Communists would control Vietnam. Pretty soon, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, would go..."

Sep 25 The U.S. Senate, by a vote of 80 to 19, ratifies the treaty outlawing nuclear tests - in the atmosphere, in space and in the waters of the earth. President Kennedy sets out on an eleven-state tour to plead for support for his domestic program.

Sep 26 President Sukarno says that the new federation of Malaysia was created "to corner Indonesia" and that Indonesia will need to "fight and destroy" it.

Sep 26 In the Dominican Republic, some are opposed to the reforms of Juan Bosch. In a pre-dawn military coup, the government of Juan Bosch is overthrown. Coup leaders describe Bosch's government as having been "corrupt and pro Communist."

Sep 27 The United States halts all economic aid to the Dominican Republic and suspends diplomatic relations.

Sep 27 Lee Harvey Oswald has taken a bus to Mexico City where he visits the Cuban consulate, hoping to move to Cuba, which he believes has a socialism superior to that of the Soviet Union.

Sep 27 Madam Nhu announces that a number of Junior officers are plotting against her brother-in-law's government.

Oct 2 President Kennedy sends a message to Ambassador Lodge in Vietnam, declaring that "no initiative should now be taken to give any encouragement to a coup" against Diem but that Lodge should "identify and build contacts with possible leadership as and when it appears."

Oct 5 The rebel generals, led by Duong Van "Big" Minh, have asked for assurance that U.S. aid to South Vietnam will continue after Diem's removal from office and assurance that the U.S. will not interfere with their coup. President Kennedy gives his approval and the CIA passes it on to the rebel generals.

Oct 7 President Kennedy ratifies a limited nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. Nuclear testing is outlawed in the atmosphere, underwater and in outer space.

Oct 9 Madam Nhu's father, Tran Van Chuong, who recently resigned as South Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States, has joined those opposed to the Diem regime. He calls for a selective cut in American aid to his country.

Oct 11 The U.S. has 16,300 members of the military in Vietnam, increased from 800 by President Kennedy. Kennedy issues an order for the withdrawal from Vietnam of 1,000 military personnel by the end of 1963. According to Kennedy's Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, to be stated in the early 21st century, Kennedy is considering pulling U.S. troops out of Vietnam after the 1964 election.

Oct 14 Madam Nhu accuses Washington of going soft on Communism and of basing its policies toward Vietnam on domestic political concerns.

Oct 15 Oswald is back from Mexico after having been denied a visa by Cuba. He has acquired a job at the Texas School Book Depository at $1.25 per hour filling customer orders for books.

Oct 16 In South Korea the leader of the ruling junta, Major General Park Chung-hee, is elected President.

Oct 18 In Britain the government of Harold Macmillan has lost credibility because of the Profumo affair, and Macmillan is suffering ill-health. He resigns.

Oct 24 This is U.N. Day, and the U.N. Ambassador, Adlai Stevenson is in Dallas Texas, where he is jeered, pushed, hit by a sign and spat upon.

Oct 25 Ambassador Lodge reports a coup is "imminent." The White House tells Lodge to postpone the coup. Lodge says that the coup can be stopped only by betraying the conspirators to Diem.

Nov 1 The Diem regime is overthrown. Diem and his younger brother, Madam Nhu's husband, are said to have committed suicide. In fact they were assassinated. People in Saigon bedeck army tanks with flowers and parade joyously through the streets.

Nov 2 Madam Nhu accuses the United States of having stabbed the Diem government in the back.

Nov 4 In elections in Greece, former Premier George Papandreou and his Center Union party win over former Premier Constantine Caramanlis and his rightist National Radical Union.

Nov 6 In Greece, King Paul gives Papandreou a mandate to form a new government.

Nov 12 The Kennedy administration has hopes for better relations with Cuba and is arranging a meeting with Castro's regime, a meeting Kennedy does not want leaked to the press.

Nov 14 In Greece hundreds of political prisoners are freed.

Nov 16 In the United States the touch-tone telephone is introduced.

Nov 22 In Dallas, President Kennedy rides in an open limousine on a route of public knowledge. It passes in front of the building where Oswald works. Oswald takes his rifle to work with him and shoots the President. Vice President Johnson becomes President.

Nov 24 Jack Ruby, owner of a girly bar and friend of Dallas policemen, kills Oswald.

Nov 24 After walking in the procession from the White House behind the Kennedy cortege, President Johnson meets with Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense McNamara, CIA Director McCone and Ambassador Lodge. He expresses doubts that getting rid of Diem was the right course. He declares that he will not "lose Vietnam." He tells Lodge to tell Duong Van Minh and the other generals who made up the ruling Military Revolutionary Council that bickering among them must stop.

Nov 29 President Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren as head of a commission to investigate the Kennedy assassination.

Nov 30 In Cyprus, quarrels have erupted between Greeks and the Turkish minority. President Makarios hopes for better cooperation between the two communities and proposes thirteen amendments to the Constitution for consideration by leaders of the Turkish Cypriot community.

Dec 1 In the U.S., Malcolm X, a spokesperson for Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, describes the assassination of Kennedy as "the chickens coming home to roost." This irritates Elijah Muhammad, who suspends Malcolm's right to speak for the movement for 90 days.

Dec 20 In a seventeen-day accord, East Germany allows West Berliners one-day to visit relatives in East Berlin.

Dec 21 In Cyprus, proposed constitutional amendments would eliminate most of the special rights of Turkish Cypriots in exchange for greater integration between the two communities, with some guarantees for Turkish rights. Among Turkish Cypriots rioting erupts.