What Happened In February 1963 In History

Historical Events for February, 1963

• 8th » Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
• 8th » The First full Color Television program in the World, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena.
• 12th » Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
• 27th » The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1963

• 1st » Takashi Murakami, Japanese painter and sculptor
• 2nd » Eva Cassidy, American singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
• 2nd » Kjell Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 2nd » Philip Laats, Belgian martial artist
• 2nd » Stephen McGann, English actor
• 3rd » Raghuram Rajan, Indian economist
• 4th » Noodles (musician) named Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
• 4th » Marko Matvere, Estonian actor and singer
• 4th » Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier
• 5th » Tebaldo Bigliardi, Italian footballer
• 5th » Ian Cairns (actor) or Ian Cairns, Scottish-English actor
• 5th » Steven Shainberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 6th » David Capel, English cricketer
• 6th » Scott Gordon, American ice hockey player and coach
• 6th » Mike Hough, Canadian ice hockey player
• 6th » Quentin Letts, English journalist and critic
• 6th » Kevin Trudeau, American radio host and author
• 7th » Seppo Vilderson, Estonian footballer
• 8th » Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer
• 8th » Joshua Kadison, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 9th » Brian Greene, American physicist
• 9th » Travis Tritt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 10th » Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
• 10th » Philip Glenister, English actor
• 10th » Kalle Kiik, Estonian chess player and coach
• 11th » José Mari Bakero, Spanish footballer and manager
• 11th » Diane Franklin, American actress
• 11th » Dan Osman, Japanese-American rock climber (d. 1998)
• 11th » Nini Stoltenberg, Norwegian activist (d. 2014)
• 12th » Ed Lover, American rapper and actor
• 12th » Jacqueline Woodson, American author
• 13th » Thomas Miller (footballer born 1963) named Thomas Miller, German footballer
• 14th » Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor
• 14th » John Marzano, American baseball player (d. 2008)
• 15th » Steven Michael Quezada, American actor
• 16th » Dano Halsall, Swiss swimmer
• 17th » Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian and actor
• 17th » Alison Hargreaves, English mountaineer (d. 1995)
• 17th » Jen-Hsun Huang, Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founded Nvidia
• 17th » Michael Jordan, American basketball player and actor
• 17th » Rene Syler, American journalist
• 18th » Rob Andrew, English rugby player and cricketer
• 18th » Henry Winter, English journalist
• 19th » Seal (musician) or Seal, English singer-songwriter
• 19th » Laurell K. Hamilton, American author
• 19th » Jessica Tuck, American actress
• 20th » Charles Barkley, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 20th » Ian Brown, English singer-songwriter (The Stone Roses)
• 20th » Jon Lynn Christensen, American politician
• 20th » Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
• 21st » William Baldwin, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 22nd » Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
• 22nd » Donald Braswell II, American tenor and actor
• 22nd » Devon Malcolm, English cricketer
• 22nd » Anna Christina Nobre, Brazilian neuroscientist and broadcaster
• 22nd » Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
• 23rd » Bobby Bonilla, American baseball player
• 23rd » Radosław Sikorski, Polish journalist and politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
• 24th » Line Beauchamp, Canadian politician
• 24th » Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro
• 24th » Dirk Greiser, German footballer
• 24th » Mike Vernon (ice hockey) e.g Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 25th » Joseph E. Duncan III, American serial killer and sex offender
• 25th » Doug Stahl, American wrestler
• 26th » Mark Garnier, English politician
• 26th » Chase Masterson, American actress and singer
• 27th » Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
• 28th » Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist

Famous Deaths for February 1963

• 1st » Fleetwood Lindley, American florist (b. 1888)
• 4th » Fred Albert Shannon, American historian and author (b. 1893)
• 6th » Abd el-Krim, Moroccan guerrilla leader (b. 1880)
• 7th » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
• 8th » George Dolenz, American actor (b. 1908)
• 11th » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 11th » Elmar Lohk, Estonian architect (b. 1901)
• 11th » Sylvia Plath, American author and poet (b. 1932)
• 25th » Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist (b. 1895)
• 28th » Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884)

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