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January-February
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 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
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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
Literature
March 1 - First appearance of John Rockerduck (a character in the Scrooge McDuck Universe) in Italian story Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante ("Uncle Scrooge and the flying kiwi") by Giampaolo Barosso and Giorgio Bordini
Year in topic
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 rail transport
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.
Births
January-February
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
January 30 - Thomas Brezina Austrian author
February 9 - Travis Tritt, country music singer
February 11 - Todd Benzinger, American baseball player
February 17 - Michael Jordan, basketball legend
February 19 - Seal, singer
February 20 - Charles Barkley, American basketball player
February 21 - William Baldwin, actor
February 22 - Vijay Singh, golfer
March-April
March 1 - Dan Michaels, producer, saxophonist, member of the rock band The Choir and also The Swirling Eddies, owner of Galaxy21 Music.
March 4 - Jason Newsted, former bassist of Metallica
March 6 - D.L. Hughley, actor, comedian
March 10 - Neneh Cherry, musician
March 12 - Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
March 14 - Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
March 18 - Vanessa Williams, actress, singer, Miss America
March 20 - Kathy Ireland, supermodel and actress
March 27 - Quentin Tarantino, actor, director, writer, producer
March 27 - Xuxa, Brazilian television personality
April 4 - Jack Del Rio, American football player and coach
April 4 - Graham Norton, talk show host
April 9 - Joe Scarborough, American cable news host
April 13 - Garry Kasparov, World Chess Champion 1985-2000
April 18 - Conan O'Brien, American television entertainer
April 21 - Ken Caminiti, baseball player (d. 2004)
April 21 - Roy Dupuis, actor
April 26 - Jet Li, martial arts fighter, actor
April 27 - Cali Timmins, actress
May-August
May 8 - Helena Blagne Zaman, Slovene singer
May 9 - Barry Douglas Lamb, rock musician, author, Christian preacher
May 11 - Natasha Richardson, actress
May 12 - Vanessa Williams actress
May 24 - Joe Dumars, basketball star
May 25 - Mike Myers, actor, comedian
June 6 - Jason Isaacs, actor ( Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets )
June 9 - Johnny Depp, actor (Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean)
June 13 - Bettina Bunge, tennis player.
June 17 - Greg Kinnear, actor (As Good As It Gets, Mystery Men)
June 18 - Bruce Smith, American football player
June 23 - Colin Montgomerie, golfer.
June 25 - George Michael, singer
June 27 - Meera Syal, comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress
July 16 - Phoebe Cates, actress
July 24 - Karl Malone, basketball
July 30 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress
August 3 - James Hetfield, Metallica frontman and co-founder
August 19 - John Stamos, actor
August 23 - Kenny Wallace, NASCAR race car driver
August 24 - Hideo Kojima, video game director
August 30 - Paul Oakenfold, DJ
September-December
September 10 - Randy Johnson, baseball pitcher, five-time Cy Young Award winner
September 21 - Cecil Fielder, baseball player
September 29 - Dave Andreychuk, NHL player
October 1 - Mark McGwire, baseball star
October 10 - Daniel Pearl, journalist (d. 2002)
October 22 - Brian Boitano, figure skater
October 26 - Natalie Merchant, singer/songwriter/musician
October 31 - Fred McGriff, baseball player
November 13 - Vinny Testaverde, American football quarterback
November 18 - Dante Bichette, baseball player
November 19 - Terry Farrell, actress ()
November 21 - Nicolette Sheridan, actress (Knots Landing, Desperate Housewives)
[November 24]] - Iris Erlingsdottir, OMD, writer, journalist
December 2 - John Kennedy Morrisey, entertainer/athlete/storyteller
December 13 - Ilkka Remes, writer
December 16 - Benjamin Bratt, actor (Law & Order)
December 18 - Brad Pitt, actor
December 23 - Jim Harbaugh, American football player
Deaths
January 5 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer
January 29 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
January 30 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
February 11 - Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist (suicide) (b. 1932)
March 4 - William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883)
March 5 - Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas, country music singers
April 6 - Otto Struve, astronomer (b. 1897)
April 9 - Eddie Edwards, jazz musician (b. 1891)
May 12 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (b. 1882)
May 31 - Edith Hamilton, educator and author (b. 1867)
June 3 - Pope John XXIII (b. 1881)
June 11 - Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (suicide)
August 5 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908)
September 11 - Suzanne Duchamp, French Dada painter (b. 1889)
October 11 - Edith Piaf, French singer (b. 1915)
October 11 - Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889)
November 1 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
November 15 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888)
November 22 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
November 22 - Aldous Huxley, English novelist (b. 1894)
November 22 - C.S. Lewis - English novelist, Christian apologist (b. 1898)
November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy assassin (shot) (b. 1939)
December 1 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in World War II
December 2 - Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner (b. 1875)
December 5 - Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint (b. 1828)
December 5 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905)
December 28 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
Physics - Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
Chemistry - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
Medicine - Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
Literature - Giorgos Seferis
Peace - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
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