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On the evening of August 28, 1963, 23-year-old Patricia Tolles, who worked at the book division at Time-Life, returned from work to her apartment on the third floor of 57 East 88th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There, Tolles found the apartment ransacked and a bloody knife in the bathroom.
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October 28 – Demolition of the 1910 Pennsylvania Station begins in New York City, continuing until 1966. October 31 – 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion: 81 die in a gas explosion during a Holiday on Ice show at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum in Indianapolis.
The destruction of the old Penn Station in 1963 and the protests against Moses's plans for the Lower Manhattan Expressway led to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, ensuring the survival of New York's most architecturally important buildings and neighborhoods. Social and financial crises in the 1960s and 1970s ...
The Mona Lisa was exhibited in the United States in 1963. Planned by Jacqueline Kennedy and André Malraux, it was first displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with around 2,000 dignatories including John F. Kennedy at the first showing, followed by 500,000 people over the next three weeks.
Sam Cooke's iconic song 'A Change is Gonna Come' became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement, speaking to the struggles of Black Americans, echoing Cooke's own feeling sparked by a 1963 ...
The Baldwin–Kennedy meeting of May 24, 1963 was an attempt to improve race relations in the United States. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy invited novelist James Baldwin, along with a large group of cultural leaders, to meet Kennedy in an apartment in New York City. The meeting became antagonistic and the group reached no consensus.
For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.