1963

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Years:	1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966

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1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar).

1 Events
- 1.1 January
- 1.2 February
- 1.3 March
- 1.4 April
- 1.5 May
- 1.6 June
- 1.7 July
- 1.8 August
- 1.9 September
- 1.10 October
- 1.11 November
- 1.12 December
- 1.13 Unknown date and ongoing events
2 Births
- 2.1 January-February
- 2.2 March-April
- 2.3 May-June
- 2.4 July-August
- 2.5 September-October
- 2.6 November-December
3 Deaths
4 Nobel prizes
5 References

Events

January

January 1 - Bogle-Chandler case: CSIRO scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumably poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney.
January 11 - The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, California, the first disco in the United States, is opened.
January 14 - George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!"^[1]^[2]
January 22 - France and Germany sign the Elysée Treaty.
January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration.
January 29 - French President Charles De Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the EEC.

February

February 8 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.
February 11 - The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created.
February 21 - An earthquake destroys the village of Barce, Libya, killing 500.
February 27 - Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic.
February 27 - Female suffrage is enacted in Iran.
February 28 - A large cloud resembling the face of Jesus is seen on Sunset Mountain, Arizona.

March

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March 21: Alcatraz closes

March 1 - Yoko Ono's marriage to American Christian fundamentalist filmmaker Anthony Cox is annulled.
March 5 - In Camden, TN, Country superstar Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson Hensley) is killed in a plane crash along with fellow performers Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Cline's manager and pilot Randy Hughes while returning from a benefit performance in Kansas City, KS for country radio disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call. Patsy Cline 9/8/32-3/5/63.
March 4 - In Paris, 6 people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
March 16 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali, killing 11,000.
March 18 - Gideon v. Wainwright: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the poor must have lawyers.
March 21 - The Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes; the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
March 22 - The Beatles release the album Please Please Me.
March 23 - Dansevise by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 for Denmark.
March 27 - In Britain, Dr. Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the UK's rail network.

April

April 3 - SCLC volunteers kick off the Birmingham campaign against segregation with a sit-in.
April 7 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.
April 10 - The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 miles east of Cape Cod with all hands (129 dead).
April 12 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham protest for "parading without a permit".
April 12 - The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits. Although both vessels are severely damaged both can make it to port.
April 15 - 70,000 marchers arrive in London from Aldermarston, to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.
April 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
April 20 – In Quebec, Canada, members of the Quebec terrorist group, the Front de libération du Québec, bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill.
April 21-April 23 - First election of the Supreme Institution of the Bahá'í Faith, known as the Universal House of Justice whose Seat is at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
April 22 - Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's 14th prime minister.
April 28 - A general election is held in Italy.
April 29th- Buddy Rogers becomes first WWWF Champion.

May

May 1 - The Coca-Cola Company debuts its first diet drink, TaB cola.
May 2 - Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Sheriff Eugene "Bull" Connor later unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators.
May 2 - Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany).
May 13 - A smallpox outbreak was recognized at Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until July that year.
May 15 - Mercury program: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury 9, the last mission (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete).
May 23 - Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union.
May 25 - The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

June

June 3 - Pope John XXIII dies.
June 5 - First annual NHL draft is held in Montreal, Quebec.
June 11 - In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration.
June 11 - Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll.
June 11 - President John F. Kennedy makes an historic civil rights speech, in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill, and asks for "the kind of equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves."
June 12 - Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi (his killer is convicted in 1994).
June 16 - Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, into space.
June 17 - Abington School District v. Schempp: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that state-mandated Bible reading in public schools is unconstitutional.
June 21 - Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.

July

July 1 - ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S.
July 5 - Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level.
July 5 - The Roman Catholic Church accepts cremation as a funeral practice.
July 12- 16-year-old Pauline Reade is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady
July 26 - An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia leaves 1,800 dead.
July 26 - NASA launches Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite.
July 27 – Indonesian Confrontation: Indonesian president-for-life Sukarno declares that he will crush Malaysia.
July 30 - The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow.

August

August 5 - The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
August 8 - The Great Train Robbery of 1963 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, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

September

September 5 - British prostitute Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury. On December 6 she is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
September 6 - The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
September 7 - The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
September 10 - Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006).
September 15 - American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22.
September 16 - Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and