1963
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968
Events:
- January 11 - The Whiskey-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 16 - Whiskey-A-Go-Go[?] opens in Los Angeles, California
- 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 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 Webb[?] told Congress the program was complete).
- May 25 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
- June 16 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) becomes the first woman in space.
- June 22 - Pope Paul VI is elected by College of Cardinals[?].
- August 8 - The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England
- August 28 - Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speech on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
- September 29 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council in Rome.
- November 22 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated; Lyndon Johnson is sworn into office
- December 4 - Closing of second period of Second Vatican Council.
Art, Culture & Fashion
1963 is the year dubbed "Annus Mirabilis" (http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/writings/poems/plam.htm) 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 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 14 - Steven Soderbergh, director
- January 23 - Gail O'Grady[?], actress
- January 26 - Andrew Ridgeley[?], musician
- February 9 - Travis Tritt[?], country music singer
- February 11 - Todd Benzinger[?], American baseball player.
- February 17 - Michael Jordan, basketball
- February 19 - Seal, singer
- February 21 - William Baldwin, actor
- March 10 - Neneh Cherry[?], musician
- March 18 - Vanessa Williams, actress, singer, Miss America
- March 27 - Quentin Tarantino, actor, director, writer, producer
- March 27 - Xuxa[?], television personality
- April 4 - Graham Norton, talk show host[?]
- April 26 - Jet Li, martial arts fighter, actor
- May 11 - Natasha Richardson[?], actress
- May 25 - Mike Myers, actor, comedian
- June 25 - George Michael, singer
- July 30 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress.
- October 10 - Daniel Pearl, journalist (+2002)
Deaths:
- Suzanne Duchamp, Dada painter
- January 5 - Rogers Hornsby[?], Baseball Hall of Famer
- January 29 - Robert Frost, poet
- January 30 - Francis Poulenc, composer
- February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
- March 4 - William Carlos Williams, writer
- March 5 - Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas[?], country music singers
- April 6 - Otto Struve[?], astronomer (+ 1897)
- June 3 - Pope John XXIII
- October 11 - Edith Piaf, French singer
- October 11 - Jean Cocteau, writer
- November 1 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
- November 22 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald
- November 22 - Aldous Huxley, novelist
- November 22 - C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English professor
- November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald, shot by Jack Ruby
- December 28 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
- Theodore Roethke - American poet
Technology:
- End of the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight
- Frisch[?] and 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 radio telescope officially begins operation.
- 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
Miscellaneous
- Harvey Ball[?] invents the ubiquitous smiley
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And, for your poor particular,
Beyond your crude and thin conceit.
And much more generous than this
Of the evenings when you coo'd with him
You might have envied, were you wise,
Which, I dare say, you did not see.
I hope, as happy, kind, and true
Have you not seen shop-painters paste
Full half, and, lo, you read the name?
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In marriage, be it still confess'd,
Some half-a-dozen lives, indeed,
Get food and nurture as the price
But what's that to the varied want
Who put the bridal crown thrice by,
So used, has hope? She sends her love,
Papa's discourse, which you, no doubt,
Whilst we were dancing. All are well,
THE WEDDING SERMON.
For clearness and for mystery.
Maiden and Youth, and mostly breaks
But keeps it, after many a year,
My memory with age is weak,
The things I seem to recollect.
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Of nameless pathos and delight!
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In Godhead rise, thither flow back
In their return, the course assign'd,
Lofty or low, of spirit or sense,
He who is fairer, better, higher
And in His Poor, His Proxies, asks
Howbeit, His People by their powers;
Daily, untortur'd in the heart,
Give, without rough recoils of sense,
Happy are you, and fit to be
For the humble to grow humbler at.
After the modest spell of prayer
And the upward eye a void descries,
And, in the soul, o'erstrain'd for grace,
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