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Historical Events for the Year 1963

  • 2nd January » Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.
  • 22nd January » The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
  • 23rd January » The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite (Guinea-Bissau) named Tite.
  • 29th January » The List of Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees or first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
  • 8th February » Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
  • 8th February » 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 February » Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
  • 27th February » The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
  • 13th March » Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in 'Miranda v. Arizona'
  • 17th March » Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
  • 21st March » Alcatraz, a federal Prison known as penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
  • 10th April » One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher SSN-593 6 sinks at sea.
  • 11th April » Pope John XXIII issues 'Pacem in Terris', the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.
  • 12th April » The Soviet Union Soviet nuclear-powered submarine Soviet submarine K-33 K-33 collides with the Finland Finnish merchant vessel M/S 'Finnclipper' in the Denmark Danish straits.
  • 16th April » Martin Luther King, Jr. or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
  • 24th April » Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy named Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
  • 26th April » In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
  • 2nd May » Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
  • 3rd May » The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and Birmingham campaign Fire hoses and police dogs called responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, brin
  • 8th May » Army of the Republic of South Vietnam South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem Huế Phật Đản shootings open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesākha Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist cri
  • 11th May » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama or Birmingham, Alabama disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a Birmingham crisis named crisis involving federal troops.
  • 13th May » The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
  • 14th May » Kuwait joins the United Nations.
  • 15th May » Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in outer space known as space.
  • 22nd May » An assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis, who will die five days later.
  • 24th May » Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US
  • 25th May » In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
  • 1st June » Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
  • 3rd June » The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Hue chemical attacks e.g attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin
  • 5th June » The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the "Profumo affair".
  • 5th June » Movement of 15 Khordad: Protests against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
  • 10th June » Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program
  • 11th June » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama List of Governors of Alabama Governor George Wallace Stand in the Schoolhouse Door stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt
  • 11th June » Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức Self-immolation or burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
  • 11th June » John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for votin
  • 12th June » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) e.g Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
  • 16th June » Soviet Space Program: 'Vostok 6' Mission Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
  • 17th June » A day after Leaders of South Vietnam called South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
  • 20th June » The so-called "Moscow-Washington hotline called red telephone" link is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • 21st June » Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is Papal conclave, 1963 known as elected as Pope Paul VI.
  • 24th June » The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
  • 26th June » U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet Union called Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
  • 26th June » Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
  • 30th June » Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco "Ciaschiteddu" Salvatore Greco, kills seven Polizia di Stato police officers and Italian Army military personnel near Palermo.
  • 1st July » ZIP codes are introduced for United States Postal Service e.g United States mail.
  • 1st July » The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet Union called Soviet Espionage known as agent.
  • 7th July » Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, Double Seven Day scuffle e.g attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
  • 12th July » Pauline Reade, who was 16-years-old, disappears on her way to a dance at the British Railways Club in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
  • 19th July » Joseph A. Walker or Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
  • 22nd July » Crown Colony of Sarawak e.g Sarawak achieve independence.
  • 24th July » The iconic Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
  • 26th July » An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in Republic of Macedonia named Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
  • 26th July » The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development votes to admit Japan.
  • 5th August » The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty or nuclear test ban treaty.
  • 8th August » Great Train Robbery (1963) Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbery train robbers steal Pound sterling £2.6 million in bank notes.
  • 15th August » Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
  • 15th August » President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a Trois Glorieuses (1963) called three-day uprising in the capital.
  • 18th August » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) known as American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
  • 21st August » Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhism e.g Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
  • 22nd August » American Joseph A. Walker Joe Walker in an North American X-15 X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of convert 106 km mi abbr=on.
  • 24th August » Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department Cable 243 named cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to 1963 South Vietnamese coup named launch a coup against Presi
  • 28th August » March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his 'I Have a Dream' speech
  • 28th August » Career Girls Murders Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda warning Miranda Rights.
  • 28th August » The Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge—Evergreen Point e.g Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest pontoon bridge known as floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US.
  • 30th August » The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
  • 31st August » North Borneo (now Sabah) achieve a self governance.
  • 4th September » Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.
  • 6th September » The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
  • 7th September » The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
  • 15th September » 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
  • 16th September » Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Crown Colony of Sarawak e.g Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.
  • 29th September » The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.
  • 4th October » Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
  • 7th October » John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
  • 9th October » 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.
  • 10th October » France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
  • 22nd October » A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
  • 31st October » An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Fairgrounds Coliseum known as Pepsi Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400 during an ice skating show. A faulty propane tank connection in a concession stand is blamed.
  • 1st November » The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico e.g Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
  • 1st November » The 1963 South Vietnamese coup begins
  • 2nd November » South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm known as assassinated following a military coup.
  • 6th November » Vietnam War: Following the 1963 South Vietnamese coup known as November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
  • 7th November » Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed Mining called mine after 14 days.
  • 9th November » At Miike coal mine, Miike District, Fukuoka called Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • 18th November » The first push-button telephone goes into service.
  • 22nd November » In Dallas named Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is Assassination of John F. Kennedy called assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the
  • 24th November » In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
  • 27th November » The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
  • 29th November » President of the United States e.g U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
  • 29th November » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport or Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
  • 1st December » Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
  • 7th December » Instant replay makes its debut during an American Army Black Knights football called Army–Navy Midshipmen football called Navy football game.
  • 8th December » Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
  • 10th December » Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar or Jamshid bin Abdullah.
  • 12th December » Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • 14th December » The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles known as Los Angeles, California.
  • 22nd December » The cruise ship 'TSMS Lakonia Lakonia' burns convert 180 mi km north of Madeira, Portugal with the loss of 128 lives.
  • 25th December » Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
  • 31st December » Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland named The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.