UWF Events

• Governor Bryant secures $2.5 million to found the new school

World Events

• JFK assassinated in Dallas, LBJ assumes presidency
• Accused assassin Lee Oswald shot to death during live TV broadcast
• “Hot line” instituted between Washington and Moscow
• Limited nuclear test ban signed
• Medicare bill submitted to Congress
• Martin Luther King, Jr. makes “I Have a Dream” speech
• Medgar Evers assassinated in Mississippi
• University of Alabama desegregated over Gov. George Wallace’s protest
• Roman Catholics approve Mass in English
• Post office assigns zip codes to addresses
• Sandy Koufax leads Dodgers to World Series sweep of Yankees