Jump to content

An American Dream Expanded/Timeline of Events, 1962–1966: Difference between revisions

An American Dream Expanded/Timeline of Events, 1962–1966 (view source)

Revision as of 14:32, 3 April 2019

4,123 bytes added ,  3 April 2019
added table formatting/italics/bolds
(begin edit)
(added table formatting/italics/bolds)
Line 5: Line 5:
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
{|class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
|-
|-
!style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:8%"|Date||style="width:86%"|Event
!style="width:6%"|Year||style="width:12%"|Date||style="width:82%"|Event
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1962||align=center|January 30|| style="background:#dfd;"|NM’s first volume of poems, Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters), is published by Putnam’s
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="11"|1962||align=center|January 30|| style="background:#fed;"|NM’s first volume of poems, ''Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)'', is published by Putnam’s.
|-
|-
|align=center|February 7|| style="background:#fed;"|The [[Republic of Bolivia]] changes its name to the '''[[Plurinational State of Bolivia]]'''. [[La Paz]] and [[Sucre]] remain the capitals.
|align=center| Late March  || style="background:#fed;"| NM divorces his second wife, Adele Morales, in Juarez, Mexico.
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2008||align=center|August 27|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Russian Federation]] recognizes the independence of the '''[[Republic of South Ossetia]]''' and the '''[[Republic of Abkhazia]]''' from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Georgia and much of the [[international community]] maintain that they are both were [[Occupied territories of Georgia|illegally occupied by Russia]] during [[Russo-Georgian War]] and legally remain integral regions of Georgia. Their capitals are [[Tskhinval]] and [[Sukhumi]], respectively.  
|align=center| April  || style="background:#fed;"| NM marries Lady Jean Campbell and they move into his apartment at 142 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn.
|-
|-
|align=center|May 28|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[State of Nepal]] changes its name to the '''[[Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal]]'''. [[Kathmandu]] remains the capital.
|align=center| Mid-August  || style="background:#fed;"| NM submits the first (of 14) columns, titled “The Big Bite,” for publication in the November ''Esquire''.
|-
|-
|align=center|February 17|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija]] declares its independence from the [[Republic of Serbia]] as the '''[[Republic of Kosovo]]'''. [[Priština]] remains the capital. Serbia maintains that Kosovo remains a part of Serbia.
|align=center| August   18|| style="background:#fed;"| NM’s third daughter, Kate, born to Jean Campbell.
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2007||align=center|October 22|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Republic of Montenegro]] changes its name to '''[[Montenegro]]'''. [[Podgorica]] remains the capital.
|align=center| September   22|| style="background:#fed;"| NM debates William F. Buckley, Jr. on “The Role of the Right Wing” before an audience of 4,000 in Chicago.
|-
|-
|align=center|February 21|| style="background:#ffd;"|The [[French Republic]] separates the '''[[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy]]''' and the '''[[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Martin]]''' from the [[Overseas Region of Guadeloupe]]. [[Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy|Gustavia]] and [[Marigot, Saint Martin|Marigot]] are the capitals respectively.
|align=center| September   25 || style="background:#fed;"| NM covers the heavyweight prizefight between Floyd Patterson and Sonny Liston in Chicago.
|-
|-
|align=center|January 15|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Kingdom of Nepal]] changes its name to the '''[[State of Nepal]]'''. [[Kathmandu]] remains the capital.
|align=center| October-November  || style="background:#fed;"| '''Cuban Missile Crisis.  The Soviet Union removes missile sites from Cuba after the U.S. threatens a military attack.'''
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2006||align=center|October 7|| style="background:#eff;"|The '''[[Republic of Palau]]''' moves its capital from [[Koror]] to [[Ngerulmud]].
|align=center| Late fall  || style="background:#fed;"| NM separates from Jean Campbell.
|-
|-
|align=center|August 14|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Federal Republic of Nigeria]] transfers sovereignty of [[Bakassi]] to the '''[[Republic of Cameroon]]'''.
|align=center| December  || style="background:#fed;"| NM publishes the first of six columns of reflections on Martin Buber’s ''Tales of the Hasidim in Commentary.''
|-
|-
|align=center|June 5|| style="background:#eef;"|The '''[[Republic of Serbia]]''' supersedes the [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]]. [[Belgrade]] remains the capital.
|align=center| December   20 || style="background:#fed;"| “An Open Letter to JFK from Norman Mailer” appears in the ''Village Voice''.
|-
|-
|align=center|June 3|| style="background:#eef;"|[[Montenegro]] secedes from the [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]] as the '''[[Republic of Montenegro]]'''. [[Podgorica]] remains the capital.
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="18"|1963||align=center| January-February   || style="background:#fee;"| ''Playboy'' publishes in two parts the NM-Buckley debate.  
|-
|-
|align=center|2005||align=center|November 6|| style="background:#fee;"|The '''[[Union of Myanmar]]''' moves its capital from [[Yangon]] to [[Naypyidaw]].
|align=center| February   || style="background:#fee;"| “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” NM’s account of the first Patterson-Liston fight, is published in ''Esquire''.
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2004||align=center|September 1|| style="background:#fff;"|The [[Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty]] administering '''[[Antarctica]]''' and all lands and waters south of the [[60th parallel south]] establishes its headquarters in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]].
|align=center| March   || style="background:#fee;"| NM meets Beverly Bentley.
|-
|-
|align=center|February 27|| style="background:#eff;"|The [[French Republic]] elevates the [[Overseas Collectivity of French Polynesia]] to the '''[[Overseas Country of French Polynesia]]'''. [[Papeetē]] remains the capital.
|align=center|March   24 || style="background:#fee;"| NM speaks on existentialism and psychoanalysis at Harvard.
|-
|-
|align=center|January 4|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Islamic State of Afghanistan]] changes its name to the '''[[Islamic Republic of Afghanistan]]'''. [[Kabul]] remains the capital.
|align=center|May   31 || style="background:#fee;"| NM presents “An Existential Evening” at Carnegie Hall, discussing the FBI, President Kennedy and Communism with the audience.
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="7"|2003||align=center|May 26|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Rwandese Republic]] changes its name to the '''[[Republic of Rwanda]]'''. [[Kigali]] remains the capital.
|align=center| Summer   || style="background:#fee;"| “The First Presidential Paper,” NM’s essay on heroes and leaders, is published in ''Dissent''.
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"|March 28|| style="background:#eef;"|The '''[[French Republic]]''' revises its [[Constitution of France|constitution]]. New [[polity|polities]] include:
|align=center| July-August   || style="background:#fee;"| NM and Beverly drive cross-country and back, stopping in Arkansas, Las Vegas (where they see Liston defeat Patterson for the second time), San Francisco and Georgia.
|-
|-
| style="background:#dfd;"|
|align=center|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.'''
*The [[Overseas Region of Réunion]]. [[Saint-Denis, Réunion|Saint-Denis]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Territory of French Southern and Antarctic Lands]]. [[Port-aux-Français]] remains the administrative center.
|-
|-
| style="background:#eff;"|
|align=center| 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 ''Esquire'' editor Harold Hayes agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964.
*The [[Overseas Collectivity of French Polynesia]]. [[Papeetē]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Collectivity of Wallis and Futuna]]. [[Mata-Utu]] remains the capital.
|-
|-
| style="background:#ffd;"|
|align=center|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)''.
*The [[Overseas Region of Guadeloupe]]. [[Basse-Terre]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Region of Martinique]]. [[Fort-de-France]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon]]. [[Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon|Saint-Pierre]] remains the capital.
|-
|-
| style="background:#fed;"|
|align=center| Mid-October   || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to ''Esquire''.
*The [[Overseas Region of Guyane]] ([[French Guiana]]). [[Cayenne]] remains the capital.
|-
|-
|align=center|February 4|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] changes its name to the '''[[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]]'''. [[Belgrade]] remains the capital.
|align=center|November   8 || style="background:#fee;"| Putnam’s publishes ''The Presidential Papers'', a collection of assorted prose focused on J.F.K.
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2002||align=center|May 21|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] changes the title of each of its [[British Dependent Territories]] to that of a [[British Overseas Territory]]. The citizens of each British Overseas Territory gain full [[British citizenship]].
|align=center| Mid-November   || style="background:#fee;"| The December ''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=center|May 20|| style="background:#fee;"|[[East Timor]] gains independence from the [[Portuguese Republic]] as the '''[[Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste]]'''. East Timor was occupied by [[Indonesia]] in 1975, and was placed under [[United Nations]] administration in 1999. [[Dili]] remains the capital.
|align=center|November   22 || style="background:#fee;"| '''President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Vice President Johnson is sworn in as President.'''
|-
|-
|align=center|March 10|| style="background:#dfd;"|The '''[[Union of the Comoros]]''' reabsorbs the ''[[de facto]]'' independent [[State of Anjouan]] and the [[Democratic Republic of Mohéli]]. [[Mutsamudu]] and [[Fomboni]] yield to [[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]] as the capital.
|align=center|November   27 || style="background:#fee;"| NM begins working on the third installment.
|-
|-
|align=center|February 14|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[State of Bahrain]] changes its name to the '''[[Kingdom of Bahrain]]'''. [[Manama]] remains the capital.
|align=center| Mid-December   || style="background:#fee;"| The January issue of ''Esquire'' containing the first installment appears.
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2001||align=center|December 23|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros]] changes its name to the '''[[Union of the Comoros]]'''. [[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]] remains the capital.
|align=center|November   16 || style="background:#fee;"| After obtaining a Mexican divorce from Jean Campbell, NM marries Beverly Bentley in New York.
|-
|-
|align=center|November 13|| style="background:#fee;"|The '''[[Islamic State of Afghanistan]]''' supersedes the [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]. [[Kabul]] remains the capital.
|align=center|December   26 || style="background:#fee;"| NM contributes to a ''New York Review of Books'' symposium on J.F.K.
|-
|-
|align=center|July 1|| style="background:#dfd;"|The "temporarily independent" [[Puntland State of Somalia]] adopts a new constitution explicitly identifying itself as part of the '''[[Somali Republic]]'''. [[Garowe]] yields to [[Mogadishu]] as the capital.
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="17"|1964||align=center| Mid-January   || style="background:#dfd;"| The fourth installment of the novel is completed.  
|-
|-
|align=center|January|| style="background:#fee;"|[[Taloqan]], the ''[[de facto]]'' capital of the [[Islamic State of Afghanistan]] government, falls to the '''[[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]'''. The capital moves to [[Fayzabad, Badakhshan|Fayzabad]].
|align=center| Late January   || style="background:#dfd;"| NM debates William F. Buckley, Jr. in New York on a taped television program.
|-
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2000||align=center|July 16|| style="background:#dfd;"|[[Somalia]] changes its name to the '''[[Somali Republic]]'''. [[Mogadishu]] remains the capital.
|align=center| January   29  || style="background:#dfd;"| '''American premiere of “Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”'''
|-
|-
|align=center|February 6|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]] capitulates and is reabsorbed by the '''[[Russian Federation]]'''. [[Grozny|Ƶovxar-Ġala]] (Grozny) yields to [[Moscow]] as the capital.
|align=center| February   3 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''The Beatles arrive in America.'''
|-
|align=center| February   11 || style="background:#dfd;"| The fifth installment is completed.
|-
|align=center| February   25 || style="background:#dfd;"| NM is in the audience in Miami when Muhammad Ali defeats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship.
|-
|align=center| March   17  || style="background:#dfd;"| Beverly gives birth to Michael Burks Mailer, NM’s first son, at about the same time that he completes the sixth installment.
|-
|align=center| April   20  || style="background:#dfd;"| The seventh installment is completed.
|-
|align=center| Late May   || style="background:#dfd;"| Warner Brothers buys an option on the film rights to ''An American Dream''.
|-
|align=center| Early June   || style="background:#dfd;"| The final long installment of the novel is completed. The Mailers go to Provincetown where NM will revise the ''Esquire'' version for book publication.
|-
|align=center| July   2 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act against discrimination.'''
|-
|align=center| 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 ''Esquire''.
|-
|align=center| August   7 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''The U.S. Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing the President to use military force in Vietnam.'''
|-
|align=center| September   || style="background:#dfd;"| '''The Free Speech movement begins at the University of California at Berkeley.'''
|-
|align=center| October   12 || style="background:#dfd;"| An advertisement for ''An American Dream'' in book form appears in ''Publishers’ Weekly'' and gives a January 1965 publication date.
|-
|align=center| November   3 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''Johnson elected President.'''
|-
|align=center| December   20 || style="background:#dfd;"| Working on the Dial Press galleys, NM completes a second revision of the novel.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="20"|1965||align=center| Early January   || style="background:#ffd;"| NM testifies on behalf of William Burroughs’s novel, ''Naked Lunch'', at its Boston obscenity trial.
|-
|align=center| January   27 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM writes to his Japanese translator that Warner Brothers has purchased the film rights to the novel.  It sells for $200,000.
|-
|align=center| February   21 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''Malcolm X is assassinated.'''
|-
|align=center| March   || style="background:#ffd;"| '''U.S. troops arrive in force in Vietnam, escalating the War.'''
|-
|align=center| March   14 || style="background:#ffd;"| Tom Wolfe’s negative review of the novel appears in ''Book Week (Washington Post)''.
|-
|align=center| March   15 || style="background:#ffd;"| Official publication date of ''An American Dream'' by Dial Press.
|-
|align=center| March   19 || style="background:#ffd;"| “The Big Comeback of Norman Mailer,” a positive review by John W. Aldridge, appears in ''Life''. NM pays to reprint the heart of the review in the spring number of ''Partisan Review'' to “accompany” Elizabeth Hardwick’s negative review.
|-
|align=center| March   27 || style="background:#ffd;"| The novel rises to number four on the bestseller list of the ''Chicago Daily News''.
|-
|align=center| April   1 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM travels to Alaska for a four-day visit, speaking at the University of Alaska.  He uses his impressions for his 1967 novel, ''Why Are We in Vietnam?''
|-
|align=center| April   11 || style="background:#ffd;"| The novel rises to number eight on the bestseller list of the ''New York Times Book Review''.
|-
|align=center| April   20 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM arrives in London to promote the British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April.
|-
|align=center| May   21 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM speaks out against the Vietnam War at the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
|-
|align=center| July   15 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM speaks at a Harvard teach-in against the Vietnam War.
|-
|align=center| Late July   || style="background:#ffd;"| NM travels to Puerto Rico for the Jose Torres-Tom McNeeley prizefight and meets with Muhammad Ali.
|-
|align=center| August   6 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''Voting Right Act of 1965 signed into law by President Johnson.'''
|-
|align=center| August   11  || style="background:#ffd;"| '''Race riots break out in Watts, Los Angeles.'''
|-
|align=center| Fall   || style="background:#ffd;"| NM contributes to a ''Partisan Review'' symposium, “On Vietnam.”
|-
|align=center| September   24 || style="background:#ffd;"| Brock Brower’s biographical article on NM appears in ''Life''.
|-
|align=center| September   29 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''National Endowment for the Arts signed into law by President Johnson.'''
|-
|align=center| Late December   || style="background:#ffd;"| NM addresses the Modern Language Association meeting in Chicago on the American novel. His talk is published in the March 1966 issue of ''Commentary''.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="8"|1966||align=center| March   || style="background:#eff;"| The Dell paperback edition of ''An American Dream'' is published.
|-
|align=center| March   10 || style="background:#eff;"| NM’s second son, Stephen McLeod Mailer, is born to Beverly.
|-
|align=center| June   || style="background:#eff;"| NM purchases a house at 565 Commercial Street in Provincetown.
|-
|align=center| August   || style="background:#eff;"| The first stage version of NM’s 1955 novel, ''The Deer Park'', with Beverly Bentley as Lulu Meyers, is presented at Act IV, a Provincetown theater.
|-
|align=center| August   26 || style="background:#eff;"| The film version of ''An American Dream'' premiers.
|-
|align=center| August   28 || style="background:#eff;"| NM’s review of Mark Lane’s ''Rush to Judgment'', an analysis of the Warren Commission Report on J.F.K.’s assassination, appears in ''Book Week (Washington Post)''.
|-
|align=center| August   29 || style="background:#eff;"| Dial Press publishes ''Cannibals and Christians'', NM’s third volume of collected prose and poetry.
|-
|align=center| October   29 || style="background:#eff;"| '''National Organization for Women established.'''
|}
|}
Dmcgonagill
239

edits

Retrieved from "https://projectmailer.net/pm/Special:MobileDiff/5917"