Government
Attends but a Treaty is not agreed due to US opposition, the "big hole" theory
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Government
Opens the American National exhibition in Moscow & has a televised "Kitchen Debate". Debates capitalism on TV with Khrushchev in a model kitchen in the US exhibition
Gravitational Redshift
Measures gravitational redshift with Glen Rebka using the Mossbauer effect.
Gravitational Redshift
Pound measures gravitational redshift on Earth and tests a key prediction of general relativity
Gravitational Redshift
Rebka works with Pound on the laboratory detection of gravitational redshift
IAEA Fellowship Programme Expansion
Oversees rapid expansion of IAEA fellowships and specialist training placements for scientists and engineers from Member States.
International Trade Mart Tower Development
Shaw helped advance development of the thirty-three-story International Trade Mart Building as part of his long business career.
Lessing Prize Acceptance Speech
Arendt delivered reflections on humanity in dark times when accepting the Lessing Prize.
Lets Make Love
Retuns to Hollywood to star in the musical comedy Lets Make Love, about an actress and a millionaire who fall in love when performing in a satirical play
Lewis McWillie Association
The HSCA described Lewis McWillie as one of Ruby's closest friends and noted McWillie's business and personal ties to organized crime figures including Meyer Lansky and Santos Trafficante.
Maverick
Makes a guest appearance on Maverick opposite James Garner as a cowardly villain seeking money through marriage.
Medal of Freedom
Posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom and the Sylvanus Thayer Award
Monolithic Integrated Circuit
Develops the planar monolithic integrated circuit using silicon and metal interconnections.
Motown Records
Berry Gordy Jr. founds Motown record company to mass-market black music, the Miracles, "Shop Around"
Nine Tomorrows Collection
Asimov published Nine Tomorrows, a collection featuring several major science-fiction stories.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the antiproton.
On the Beach
Stars in On the Beach
Possible Trafficante Meeting
The HSCA developed circumstantial evidence that Ruby may have met Santos Trafficante in Cuba, but concluded that the evidence was insufficient to determine conclusively whether the meeting occurred.
Pound-Rebka Experiment
Confirms gravitational redshift in a laboratory test of general relativity.
Raisin in the Sun Broadway Opening
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway, portraying a Black family's hopes amid housing discrimination.
Rio Bravo
Appears in Howard Hawks Rio Bravo, in which she played a flirtatious gambler called "Feathers" who becomes attracted to the town sheriff played by Dickinsons childhood idol John Wayne
Rio Bravo
Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film, directed by Howard Hawks
Sylvanus Thayer Award
Posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom and the Sylvanus Thayer Award
The Apartment
Stars in "The Apartment"
The Measure of A Man
Writes "The Measure of A Man", from which the piece "What is Man?", an attempt to sketch the optimal political, social, and economic structure of society, is derived
The Nuns Story
Directs, "The Nuns Story"
The Young Philadelphians
Stars in "The Young Philadelphians"
Toby Award Redhead Actress
Gwen Verdon collected the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her starring work in Redhead.
University of Minnesota
Studies briefly at the University of Minnesota.
What is Man?
Writes "The Measure of A Man", from which the piece "What is Man?", an attempt to sketch the optimal political, social, and economic structure of society, is derived
World Champion
Patterson made four successful title defenses but his reign comes to an end when Swedens Johansson knocked him out in the third round
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