In 1959, Fiat awarded me a scholarship to study automotive engineering at Italy’s ... The only issue I faced was a tendency for my left shoe to wedge itself between the brake pedal and the firewall, a ...

November 2: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson grants the right to apply for permanent residency to any Cuban who arrived in the U.S. after January 1, 1959. More than 123,000 Cubans apply immediately.