A 73-year-old former postal worker had his car rigged as a bomb in 1960 but was foiled when a traffic officer nabbed him on ...

Former president John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, changed American politics—and culture, for that ...

UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa Berlin Wall is built, dividing East and West Germany American-backed Cuban exiles fail in an attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs ...

The presidency of John F. Kennedy (JFK) took place in the context of super-charged international relations: face-offs with ...

When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to take West Berlin in 1961, Kennedy promised a military response, and the Russians backed down. When the Soviets began to install missiles in ...

President John F Kennedy met Ghana's first President and leading pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah at the White House in March 1961 In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean ...

Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961 – just four months into ... 1969 – nearly six years after JFK’s death. The United States returned to the moon this week when ...

The yacht was sold again in 1998. Texas oil executive William Kallop bought the Honey Fitz for $5.9 million (£3.7 million) at Sotheby's Camelot auction. Under Kallop's ownership, the Honey Fitz ...