1963

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1 Events 1.1 January-April 1.2 May-July 1.3 August-October 1.4 November 1.5 December 1.6 unknown date 2 Year in topic 3 Births 3.7 January-March 3.8 April-August 3.9 September-December 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Miscellaneous

Events

• 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
• 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.
• March 4 - In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
• 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.
• 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 22 - Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's fourteenth prime minister.

• 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 25 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
• June 5 - British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.
• 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 22 - Pope Paul VI is elected by College of Cardinals.
• July 5 - diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassies' level.

• 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 15 - American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing results in 4 deaths and 22 injuries.
• 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 the Vaiont Dam breaks after a large landslide behind the dam causes water to overtop it.

• November 2 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
• November 6 - Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and murder of President Ngo Dinh Diem, 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 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 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 4 - Closing of second period of Second Vatican Council.
• End of the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight

• 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).
• Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite is orbited by NASA.
• 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

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

• 1963 in film
  • Tom Jones
  • Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
  • Charade starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
  • McLintock! starring John Wayne
• 1963 in literature
• 1963 in music
  • February 11 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album, including Please, Please Me (released on March 2).
• 1963 in sports
  • January 29 - First inductees into the "Pro Football" Hall of Fame are announced
• 1963 in television
  • May 15 - First television pictures transmitted from a U.S. manned space capsule ("Faith 7.") Due to the poor picture quality, only NBC carries the transmission, and on tape-delay, not live
  • September 2 ? CBS becomes first network to expand its evening network news from 15 to 30 minutes.
  • September 9 - NBC expands its evening network news program to 30 minutes
  • November 22 - regular television programming is suspended following news of John F. Kennedy's assassination
  • November 23 - first episode of Dr Who is broadcast in the UK.
  • November 24 - Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television.
  • The television remote control is authorized by the FCC.

• January 14 - Steven Soderbergh, director
• January 21 - Hakeem Olajuwon, basketball player
• January 21 - Detlef Schrempf, basketball player
• January 23 - Gail O'Grady, actress
• January 26 - Andrew Ridgely, musician
• February 9 - Travis Tritt, country music singer
• February 11 - Todd Benzinger, American baseball player
• February 17 - Source | Copyright

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