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1963

1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

=January-February

  • January 1 - CSIRO Scientist Gilbert Bogle + Mrs Margaret Chandler are found dead, believed to have been poisoned, in bushland near the Lane Cove river, Lane Cove Sydney
  • January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
  • January 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama.
  • January 22 - Elysée treaty between France and Germany
  • January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson College in South Carolina, the last US state to hold out against racial integration
  • January 29 - Charles De Gaulle vetos United Kingdom's entry into the EEC
  • February 8 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
  • February 11 - CIA Domestic Operations Division is created.
  • February 21 - An earthquake in Libya destroys the village of Barce - 500 dead
  • February 27 - Female suffrage in Iran

    March-April

  • March 1 - Yoko Ono's marriage to American Christian fundamentalist filmmaker Tony Cox is annulled
  • March 4 - In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
  • March 16 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali - 11,000 dead
  • March 18 - Court decides poor must have lawyers (Gideon vs. Wainwright Supreme Court trial)
  • March 21 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes; the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere
  • March 27 - In Britain Dr Beeching issues report calling for huge cuts to the UK's rail network; See Beeching axe
  • April 7 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito is named President for life
  • April 10 - The US nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 miles east of Cape Cod with all hands - 129 dead
  • April 15 - 70,000 marchers arrive in London from Aldermarston to demonstrate against nuclear weapons
  • April 22 - Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's fourteenth prime minister.

    May-June

  • May 2 - Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a rocket with three stages with a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
  • May 15 - Mercury program: NASA launches the last mission of the program, Mercury 9 (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb told Congress the program was complete)
  • May 23 - Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union
  • May 25 - The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • June 1 - Kenya gains autonomy.
  • June 2 - Slavery declared illegal in Saudi Arabia
  • June 5 - Profumo Affair - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal
  • June 11 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc publicly sets himself on fire in Saigon, Vietnam, to protest against Ngo Dinh Diem's policies
  • June 11 - Prime Minister of Greece Constantine Karamanlis resigns in protest of king's visit to Britain
  • June 12 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
  • June 16 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) becomes the first woman in space.
  • June 17 - The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
  • June 21 - Pope Paul VI is elected by College of Cardinals.
  • June 30 - Ciaculli Massacre - mafia car bomb explodes in Ciaculli, Sicily, killing 7 police officers

    July-August

  • July 1 - ZIP Codes introduced in the USA
  • July 5 - Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassies' level.
  • July 26 - Earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia - 1800 dead
  • July 26 - Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite is orbited by NASA
  • July 27 – Indonesian president-for-life Sukarno declares that he will crush Malaysia – official start of Indonesian Confrontation
  • July 30 - Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow
  • August 5 - United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
  • August 8 - The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England
  • August 18 - American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi
  • August 28 - Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speech on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C

    September-October

  • September 5 - Christine Keeler arrested for perjury. On December 6 she is sentenced to nine months in prison
  • September 15 - American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing results in 4 deaths and 22 injuries.
  • September 16 – Federation of Malaysia formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak.
  • September 18 – Rioters burn down British embassy in Jakarta to protest formation of Malaysia
  • September 23 - King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals was was established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals
  • September 25 - Denning Report on Profumo affair
  • September 29 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council in Rome.
  • October 9 - Uganda becomes a republic.
  • October 9 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.

    November

  • November 2 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem is assassinated following a military coup
  • November 6 - Vietnam War: Coup leader General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam
  • November 7 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days
  • November 9 - 1963 Miike coal-mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital
  • November 14 - A volcanic eruption under the sea near Iceland creates a new island, Surtsey
  • November 16 - Newspaper strike begins in Toledo, Ohio
  • November 18 - Dartford Tunnel opens
  • November 22 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn-in as the 36th President of the United States
  • November 22 - C.S. Lewis, Christian Author and Scholar, dies
  • November 22 - Aldous Huxley, British writer dies
  • November 23 - The first episode of the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
  • November 24 - John F. Kennedy assassination: Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is mortally shot by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television
  • November 24 - Vietnam War: Newly sworn in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically
  • November 25 - John F. Kennedy assassination: The late US President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery
  • November 29 - John F. Kennedy assassination: US President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
  • November 29 - A Douglas DC-8 carrying Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal, killing all 118 on board (for many years this was the worst air disaster in Canada's history).

    December

  • December 4 - Closing of second period of Second Vatican Council.
  • End of the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight
  • December 5 - The Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH shows military usable rockets to representants to military staff of non-NATO-countries near Cuxhaven. Although these rockets landed after their flight on parachutes and no allied laws were hurted, this action led to protests by the Soviet Union.
  • December 12 – Kenya becomes independent with Jomo Kenyatta as a prime minister
  • December 24 - Cyprus Emergency - A brief civil war in Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots erupts
  • December 31 - Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formally dissolved

    unknown date

  • D. H. Frisch and J. H. Smith prove radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion. (See Einstein's special relativity and general relativity).
  • Full deployment of SAGE, the semi-automated ground environment.
  • TAT-3 cable goes into operation.
  • Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word "clone".
  • Arecibo Observatory officially begins operation.
  • Ostankino Tower in Moscow begins construction.
  • The divorce case of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll causes scandal in the United Kingdom
  • Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley

    Year in topic

    1963 is the year dubbed "Annus Mirabilis" by British poet Philip Larkin.


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