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See also:
1963_in_art
1963_in_aviation
1963_in_film
1963_in_literature
1963_in_music
1963_in_radio
1963_in_science
1963_in_sports
1963_in_television
1963_in_Canada
Events
January-March
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_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_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.
March_27 - In Britain Dr Beeching issues report calling for huge cuts to the UK's rail network ''See'' Beeching_axe.
April-August
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.
launches the last mission of the program, Mercury_9 (on June_12 NASA Administrator James_E._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_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
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
results in 4 deaths and 22 injuries.
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 the Vaiont_Dam breaks after a large landslide behind the dam causes water to overtop it.
November
November_2 - South_Vietnamese President Ngo_Dihn_Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
coup and murder of President Ngo_Dinh_Diem, coup leader General Duong_Van_Minh takes over leadership of South_Vietnam.
, 11 miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
, a coal_mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon_monoxide_poisoning victims to the hospital.
, 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.
is mortally shot by Jack_Ruby in Dallas,_Texas on live national television.
November 24 - confirms that the United_States intends to continue supporting South_Vietnam militarily and economically.
is buried at Arlington_National_Cemetery.
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
unknown date
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).
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_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
Year in topic
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