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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="18"|1963||align=left| January-February   || style="background:#fee;"| ''Playboy'' publishes in two parts the NM-Buckley debate.  
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="18"|1963||align=left| January-February   || style="background:#fee;"| ''Playboy'' publishes in two parts the NM-Buckley debate.  
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|align=left| February   || style="background:#fee;"| “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” NM’s account of the first Patterson-Liston fight, is published in [[w:Esquire|''Esquire'']].
|align=left| February   || style="background:#fee;"| “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” NM’s account of the first Patterson-Liston fight, is published in [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]].
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|align=left| March   || style="background:#fee;"| NM meets Beverly Bentley.
|align=left| March   || style="background:#fee;"| NM meets Beverly Bentley.
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|align=left|August  28|| style="background:#fee;"| '''Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Washington Monument during the Civil Rights March on the Capital.'''
|align=left|August  28|| style="background:#fee;"| '''Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Washington Monument during the Civil Rights March on the Capital.'''
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|align=left| Late Summer   || style="background:#fee;"| Scott Meredith becomes NM’s literary agent and helps broker the sale of an unwritten novel to Dial Press and Dell Books. NM proposes and [[w:Esquire|''Esquire'']] editor Harold Hayes agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964.
|align=left| Late Summer   || style="background:#fee;"| Scott Meredith becomes NM’s literary agent and helps broker the sale of an unwritten novel to Dial Press and Dell Books. NM proposes and [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]] editor Harold Hayes agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964.
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|align=left|September   29 || style="background:#fee;"| NM’s review of Victor Lasky’s ''J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth'' appears in ''Book Week (N.Y. Herald Tribune)''.
|align=left|September   29 || style="background:#fee;"| NM’s review of Victor Lasky’s ''J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth'' appears in ''Book Week (N.Y. Herald Tribune)''.
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|align=left| Mid-October   || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to [[w:Esquire|''Esquire'']].
|align=left| Mid-October   || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]].
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|align=left|November   8 || style="background:#fee;"| Putnam’s publishes ''The Presidential Papers'', a collection of assorted prose focused on J.F.K.
|align=left|November   8 || style="background:#fee;"| Putnam’s publishes ''The Presidential Papers'', a collection of assorted prose focused on J.F.K.
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|align=left| Mid-November   || style="background:#fee;"| The December [[w:Esquire|''Esquire'']] containing NM’s final “Big Bite” column is published. NM announces in it that he will write a novel called ''An American Dream'', in eight installments, beginning in the January 1964 issue.
|align=left| Mid-November   || style="background:#fee;"| The December [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]] containing NM’s final “Big Bite” column is published. NM announces in it that he will write a novel called ''An American Dream'', in eight installments, beginning in the January 1964 issue.
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|align=left|November   22 || style="background:#fee;"| '''President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Vice President Johnson is sworn in as President.'''
|align=left|November   22 || style="background:#fee;"| '''President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Vice President Johnson is sworn in as President.'''
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|align=left| Late May   || style="background:#dfd;"| Warner Brothers buys an option on the film rights to ''An American Dream''.
|align=left| Late May   || style="background:#dfd;"| Warner Brothers buys an option on the film rights to ''An American Dream''.
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|align=left| Early June   || style="background:#dfd;"| The final long installment of the novel is completed. The Mailers go to Provincetown where NM will revise the [[w:Esquire|''Esquire'']] version for book publication.
|align=left| Early June   || style="background:#dfd;"| The final long installment of the novel is completed. The Mailers go to Provincetown where NM will revise the [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]] version for book publication.
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|align=left| July   2 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act against discrimination.'''
|align=left| July   2 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act against discrimination.'''
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|align=left| Mid-July   || style="background:#dfd;"| NM break off work on the revision to the novel to cover the Republican Convention in San Francisco. His account, “In the Red Light,” appears in the November [[w:Esquire|''Esquire'']].
|align=left| Mid-July   || style="background:#dfd;"| NM break off work on the revision to the novel to cover the Republican Convention in San Francisco. His account, “In the Red Light,” appears in the November [[w:Esquire (magazine)|"Esquire"]].
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|align=left| August   7 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''The U.S. Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing the President to use military force in Vietnam.'''
|align=left| August   7 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''The U.S. Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing the President to use military force in Vietnam.'''
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