b'100 Years: 1923-2023 Events to Remember(Aug 26) In a meeting with US President Kennedy,although ABC would not follow suit until 1967. Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told(Sep 3) The US federal minimum wage was increased toKennedy that all Soviet combat troops had been$1.25 an hour, roughly $9.48 in 2013 dollars. Fifty removed from Cuba. In actuality, one brigadeyears later, the minimum wage would be $7.25 an of Soviet troops had remained after the end ofhour.the Cuban Missile Crisis, at the request of Fidel(Sep 9) NBC became the second US television network to Castro. The existence of the brigade would not be discovered by US intelligence until 1979. expand its evening news from 15 minutes to 30. As CBS did the week before, The Huntley-Brinkley Report (Au g 27) Eighteen miners were killed in an explosionincluded an interview with President Kennedy.at an underground potash mine near Moab, Utah, but five men were able to survive the carbonThe Fourth Session of the United Nations Committee monoxide by finding an air pocket, 2,712 feeton the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space opened at United below the surface, and were lifted to safety byNations Headquarters, New York. (Aug 30) The MoscowWashington hotline began (Sep 10) For the first time in the history of Major League rescue workers.operations, as the US Department of Defense made aBaseball, three brothers appeared for the same teamLess than six hours before the railroads of the US wereone-sentence announcement to the world press: in a game. Felipe Alou, scheduled to be shut down by a walkout of railwayThe direct communication link between WashingtonJess Alou and Matty employees, President Kennedy signed anti-strikeand Moscow is now operational. Alou took the outfield legislation that had been passed minutes earlier by the(Aug 31) Winston P. Wilson became chief of the US National(at right, center and US House of Representatives. The vote in the House, finished at 4:42 pm, was 286-66 on a bill that hadGuard Bureau. left field, respectively) passed the US Senate on August 22. President Kennedyfor the San Francisco 1963 (Sep 2) At 6:30 pm New York time, Walter Cronkite signed the bill into law at 6:14 pm, ending the strikeintroduced the CBS Evening News with the statement,Giants against the New that had been scheduled for 12:01 am. Good evening from our CBS newsroom in New York,York Mets. In the 8th on this, the first broadcast of network televisions firstinning, Jess, Matty (Aug 28) At the 1963 March on Washington (officially, the half-hour news program."The first show included aand Felipe came up March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom), Reverendpre-recorded segment of Cronkites interview with USto bat in consecutive order, and were all struck out by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream"President Kennedy. Previously, the three networks ranMets pitcher Carl Willey; the Mets won 4-2.speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to antheir daily national news for fifteen minutes. NBC wouldUS President Kennedy issued an executive order that audience of at least 250,000 people.inaugurate its half hour news program a week later,exempted married American men from being drafted.WPMA News / Fall 202351'