1963 - General
The
Average Wage:
£16.14s.11d
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Lyndon
B.Johnson becomes the 36th U.S. President |
Teletext
is first demonstrated |
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The
first BIBA boutique
opens in Abingdon Road, London |
Skateboards
are invented |
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The
Gillette Cup is introduced into County cricket |
The
'A' suffix comes into use on vehicle registration plates
in some counties
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Sidney
Poitier is the first black actor to receive an Oscar |
Grand
Prix driver Oscar Galvez is killed |
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Princess
Anne starts at Benenden School, Kent |
Surfing
becomes the biggest 'overnight' sensation since 'The Twist' |
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Miss
World is Carole Joan Crawford
( Miss Jamaica ) |
Manfred
Mann lead singer Paul Jones marries Sheila MacLeod |
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Britain's
highest unemployment figure since 1947, quoted at 878,000 |
Miss
Universe is Idea Maria Vargas ( Miss Brazil ) |
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Phil
Spector creates his 'Wall of Sound' |
Polaroid instant film and cameras are first marketed |
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Geneticist
J.B.S. Haldane coins the word "clone" |
Harvey
Ball invents the 'smiley' |
January 1963
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Charlie
Watts replaces Tony Chapman as The Rolling Stones drummer
Kim
Philby, the third man in the Burgess / Maclean spy ring
escapes to Moscow
Phil
Everly marries Jackie Ertel
1st Purchase Tax on discs
is cut from 45% to 25%
2nd
50 die as the Vietcong shoot down 5 American helicopters in
the Mekong Delta
2nd
U.S. TV host Dick Powell dies
11th Whisky A Go-Go, the
first disco night club in the USA, is opened in Los Angeles
14th
France vetoes Britain's application to join the Common Market
14th George Wallace becomes
governor of Alabama
18th
Politician Hugh Gaitskell (right) dies
23rd Kim Philby is reported
missing from the British Embassy in Beirut
28th Black student Harvey
Gantt enters Clemson College in South Carolina, which is the
last US state
to hold out against racial integration
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February 1963
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Paul
Anka marries aristocrat Anne deZogheb in Paris
The Rolling Stones begin appearing at the Crawdaddy Club in
Richmond
2nd
Finn Pentti Nikula becomes the first pole-vaulter to clear
five metres
2nd
The Beatles start
their first U.K. tour
8th
In Iraq, army rebels seize power and execute Premier Abdul
Kassim
9th
The first test flight of the Boeing 727 (right)
is made in America
11th The CIA Domestic
Operations Division is created
11th UK unemployment reaches
878,000 (highest since Feb 47)
14th
Harold Wilson becomes leader
of the Labour Party
19th USSR informs US of
withdrawal of several thousand troops from Cuba
21st An earthquake in
Libya kills 500 and destroys the village of Barce
22nd
John Lewis, founder of the retail store chain, dies
22nd
Northern Music Publishing is formed by The Beatles
27th Female suffrage in
Iran
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March 1963
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1st Yoko Ono's marriage to
American Christian fundamentalist filmmaker Tony Cox is annulled
4th Six OAS members are sentenced to death for
the assassination attempt on DeGaulle
5th
Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Copas and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins are killed
in a plane crash
at Camden, Tennessee
8th
The first Ford Anglia comes off the production line at Halewood
16th Mount Agung erupts
on Bali killing 11,000
18th James Meredith is
the first black student to graduate from the University of
Mississippi
21st
Alcatraz prison in San Francisco
Bay (right) is closed down after 104 years use
21st
The first automatic tube trains run on the London underground
22nd John Profumo (Secretary
of State for War) makes personal statement to parliament
26th Five thousand unemployed
people demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament
27th
The Beeching report is published announcing plans to close
more than 2024 railway stations
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April 1963
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1st
General Hospital premiered on ABC-TV
4th Actor Jason Robards dies
4th
The Hollies audition at EMI's
Abbey Road Studios
in London
7th
Yugoslavia becomes a Socialist republic and Josip Broz Tito
is named President
8th Julian Lennon, the
son of John Lennon, was born in Liverpool, England
9th Winston
Churchill is made an honorary US citizen
10th
The U.S. atomic submarine 'Thresher' is lost
220 miles east of Cape Cod
in the North
Atlantic with 129
crew (right)
18th Paul McCartney meets
Jane Asher, the sister of Peter Asher of 'Peter & Gordon'
15th
70,000 Aldermaston marchers arrive in London to protest against
nuclear weapons
20th The Eleanor Roosevelt
Foundation is created
21st
Michael
E. De Bakey implants artificial heart in human for first time
at Houston hospital
22nd
Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's fourteenth
prime minister
24th
Princess Alexandra marries Angus Ogilvie at Westminster
Abbey
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May 1963
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The
first Monterey Folk Festival is held in California
7th
The second 'Telstar' satellite is launched
7th
Comedian 'Cheeky Chappie' Max Miller dies
11th The homes of civil
rights leaders are bombed in Birmingham, Alabama
13th Ray Charles arrives
in London at for the start of a UK tour
15th
Tottenham Hotspur beat Atletico Madrid 5-1 and become the
first English winners of a European
club football trophy (right)
15th NASA launches the
last mission of the Mercury program, Mercury 9, from Cape
Canaveral. Astronaut
Gordon Cooper makes 22 orbits
23rd Fidel Castro visits
the Soviet Union
25th The Organisation
of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
27th
Jomo Kenyatta is elected Premier in Kenya's first general
election
30th
The Peerage Bill is published, allowing Peers of the Realm
to renounce their titles
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June 1963
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Henry
Cooper knocks down Cassius Clay
at the end of the 4th round in a non-title fight at Wembley
'The
Pill' becomes available on doctor's prescription, but not
generally available until 1974
The
B.B.C. launch their 'Pop Go The Beatles' radio series
2nd Slavery is declared
illegal in Saudi Arabia
3rd
Pope John XXIII dies aged 82
4th
Scandal rocks the government as John
Profumo resigns over the Christine
Keeler affair
7th
The Rolling Stones
make their U.K. television debut on 'Thank Your Lucky Stars'
11th Constantine Karamanlis,
Greek Prime Minister, resigns in protest at king's visit to
Britain
12th Civil rights leader
Medgar Evers is fatally shot outside his home in Jackson,
Mississippi
15th Last performance
of the Old Vic Company as the new National Theatre begins
16th
Lt. Valentina Tereshkova,
a former textile factory worker, becomes the first woman into
space
19th President Kennedy
presents the Civil Rights Bill to Congress in Washington D.C.
20th The Moscow-Washington
"Hot line" agreement sets up a direct line between USA and
USSR
21st Cardinal Giovanni
Battista Montini is elected Pope Paul VI by the College of
Cardinals
26th
President Kennedy visits the
Berlin Wall and delivers his 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech
30th A Mafia car bomb
explodes in Ciaculli, Sicily, killing 7 police officers
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July 1963
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1st
ZIP Codes are introduced in the USA
1st The government admits that Kim Philby was the
third man in the Burgess / Maclean
spy ring
3rd
The government announces the introduction of continental-style
road signs
14th
The BBC announces that it is to scrap the TV panel game 'What's
My Line' (right)
16th
The government proposes the creation of a Ministry of Defence
26th
A U.K. national speed limit of 50m.p.h. is introduced but
ignored by most drivers
26th An earthquake in Skopje,
Yugoslavia kills 1800
26th Syncom, the world's first
geostationary satellite is put into orbit by NASA
28th The Newport Folk Festival
at Rhode Island draws 47,000 people
29th Charles DeGaulle pledges
to continue French nuclear testing
30th The Soviet newspaper
Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in
Moscow
31st The Peerage Bill allows
Lords to renounce their titles and stand for election as commoners
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August 1963
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Anthony Wedgwood-Benn renounces his peerage
1st
The minimum prison age is raised to 17 in Britain
3rd The Beatles perform
for the last time at the Cavern Club, Liverpool
8th More than £2.5 million in cash and jewels
is taken in the Great Train Robbery
8th
A Treaty is signed in Moscow banning Nuclear testing in the
atmosphere
9th
First edition of Ready
Steady Go! Is broadcast at 7p.m. from Television House,
Kingsway
15th David "Screaming
Lord" Sutch (right) stands in the by-election at Stratford-on-Avon,
and loses
22nd
Lord Nuffield, the creator of Morris Cars, dies aged 84
23rd
Scottish actress Mary Gordon dies
28th
Martin Luther King makes his
'I have a dream . . .' speech at the Lincoln Memorial
30th Timothy Leary lectures
on "The revelatory potentialities of the human nervous system"
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September 1963
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Jet
Harris (right) and Billie Davies are involved in the car crash
that effectively ends his career
5th
Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury
7th The Professional Football
Hall of Fame is dedicated in Canton, Ohio, U.S.A.
10th The first credit card is launched in the U.K.
by American Express but you could only get one if
you had an annual
income of over £2000
15th In America, the 16th
Street Baptist Church bombing results in 4 deaths and 22 injuries
16th The Federation of
Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of
Malaya and the British
crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and
Sarawak.
17th
The early warning missile system at Fylingdales
becomes operational
18th Rioters burn down
the British embassy in Jakarta, protesting against the formation
of Malaysia
20th
President John F. Kennedy proposes a joint U.S.- Soviet
expedition to the moon
26th
The Denning report on the Profumo
affair is published
27th
Cilla Black makes
her television debut on Ready Steady Go! Singing 'Love of
the Loved'
27th Joseph M. Valachi
identified the alleged chiefs of organized crime in the United
States in a televised
testimony before the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
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October 1963
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5th
Colin Jordan, British Nazi leader, is pelted with
eggs at his wedding to perfume heiress
Francoise Dior
6th The Springfields make their final appearance
before Dusty goes
solo
9th Uganda
becomes a republic
9th Over
2,000 die when a landslide behind the Vajont Dam in Northern
Italy causes a giant wave of water
to wash over the top
10th
Harold Macmillan resigns as
Prime Minister due to illness brought on by the Profumo
affair
11th
Artist, director and writer Jean Cocteau dies
11th
French singer Edith Piaf dies in Paris
13th The Beatles debut on Val
Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium TV show before
15 million
viewers
14th
Beatlemania becomes official as papers use the term in headline
banners
14th
TWA and PAN-AM place orders for 21 supersonic passenger aircraft
21st
The United Nations vote against admitting communist
China
29th Singer
Michael Holliday, aged 35, commits suicide
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November 1963
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1st
The BBC bans Joe Brown's cover of George Formby's
"Little Ukulele"
1st Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of the Republic
of Vietnam, and his brother are killed in a coup
4th
The Beatles appear
on the Royal Variety Show
6th Vietnam coup leader
General Duong Van Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam
7th 11 miners are rescued
from a collapsed mine in Germany after 14 days
9th A coal-mine explosion
at Miike in Japan kills 458 and hospitalises 839 with carbon
monoxide poisoning
14th An undersea volcanic
eruption near Iceland creates a new island, Surtsey
18th The Dartford Tunnel opens
22nd
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated (top right) by Lee
Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
22nd
Author C.S.Lewis dies
22nd
Author Aldous Huxley dies
23rd
The first episode of 'Dr.Who'
is screened on BBC at 5.25p.m. 'An Unearthly Child'
24th
Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by club owner Jack Ruby live
on American TV (bottom right)
25th John F. Kennedy is buried
at Arlington National Cemetery
26th Numerous priceless art treasures, hidden by the
Nazis during WWII, are found in Austria
29th Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas
DC-8, crashes into a hillside after take-off from Dorval
Airport, Montreal, killing all 118 on board
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December 1963
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The
Berlin wall is opened for the first time to allow Christmas
visits
4th Official end of the
Mercury program of U.S.A. solo-manned spaceflight
5th 'What A Crazy World',
featuring Joe Brown, Susan Maughan (right), Freddie and the
Dreamers, Harry
H. Corbett and Marty Wilde opens at the Westend and Rialta
Cinemas
5th The UN General Assembly
asks the Commission on the Status of Women to prepare a declaration
on the rights of women.
6th
Christine Keeler is jailed
for 9 months for perjury, not connected to the Profumo affair
10th Zanzibar gains
independence from Britain
11th
Frank Sinatra Jr. is released in Los Angeles after his father
pays a $240,000 ransom
12th Kenya becomes independent
with Jomo Kenyatta as Prime Minister
14th
Blues singer Dinah Washington dies of a drug overdose
24th A short civil war
in Cyprus between Greek and Turkish Cypriots erupts
30th
OAS leader Antoine Argoud is sentenced to life imprisonment
in Paris
31st The Central African
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is formally dissolved
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1963
Births
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1963
Deaths
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January
14 Steven Spielberg, director
January 23 Gail O'Grady, actress
January 26 Andrew Ridgely, musician
February 9 Travis Tritt, country music singer
February 17 Michael Jordan, basketball player
February 19 Seal, singer
February 21 William Baldwin, actor
February 22 Vijay Singh, golfer
March 6 D.L. Hughley, actor, comedian
March 10 Neneh Cherry, musician
March 12 Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian track athlete
March 14 Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
March 18 Vanessa L. Williams, actress, singer
March 20 Kathy Ireland, supermodel and actress
March 27 Quentin Tarantino, actor, director, writer, producer
April 4 Jack Del Rio, American football player and coach
April 4 Graham Norton, talk show host
April 13 Garry Kasparov, World Chess Champion 1985-2000
April 21 Roy Dupuis, actor
April 26 Jet Li, martial arts fighter, actor
April 27 Cali Timmins, actress
May 11 Natasha Richardson, actress
May 12 Vanessa A. Williams, actress
May 24 Joe Dumars, basketball star
May 25 Mike Myers, actor, comedian
June 6 Jason Isaacs, actor
June 9 Johnny Depp, actor
June 13 Bettina Bunge, tennis player
June 17 Greg Kinnear, actor
June 18 Bruce Smith, American football player
June 23 Colin Montgomerie, golfer
June 25 George Michael, singer
June 27 Meera Syal, writer, singer, journalist and actress
July 16 Phoebe Cates, actress
July 30 Lisa Kudrow, American actress
August 3 James Hetfield, Metallica co-founder
August 6 Kevin Mitnick, computer hacker
August 19 John Stamos, actor
August 23 Kenny Wallace, NASCAR race car driver
August 30 Paul Oakenfold, DJ
October 1 Mark McGwire, baseball player
October 10 Daniel Pearl, journalist
October 22 Brian Boitano, figure skater
October 26 Natalie Merchant, singer, songwriter, musician
November 13 Vinny Testaverde, American football quarterback
November 19 Terry Farrell, Star Trek actress
November 21 Nicolette Sheridan, actress
November 24 Iris Erlingsdottir, OMD, writer, journalist
December 16 Benjamin Bratt, actor
December 18 Brad Pitt, actor
December 23 Jim Harbaugh, American football player
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January
2 Dick Powell, TV host
January 5 Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Fame
January 18 Hugh Gaitskell, politician
January 29 Robert Frost, American poet
January 30 Francis Poulenc, French composer
February 11 Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist
February 22 John Lewis, chain store founder
March 4 William Carlos Williams, American writer
March 5 Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country
music singers
April 4 Jason Robards, actor
April 6 Otto Struve, astronomer
April 9 Eddie Edwards, jazz musician
May 7 Max Miller, comedian
May 12 Bobby Kerr, Canadian track athlete
May 31 Edith Hamilton, author
June 3 Pope John XXIII
June 11 Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Bhuddist monk (suicide)
June 12 Medgar Evers, civil rights leader
August 5 Theodore Roethke, American poet
August 22 Lord Nuffield, founder of Morris cars
August 23 Mary Gordon, Scottish actress
September 11 Suzanne Duchamp, French Dada painter
October 11 Edith Piaf, French singer
October 11 Jean Cocteau, French writer
October 29 Michael Holliday, singer
November 1 Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
November 15 Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor
November 22 John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
November 22 Aldous Huxley, novelist
November 22 C.S. Lewis, novelist
November 24 Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy assassin
December 1 Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American WW2 spy
December 2 Thomas Hicks, American marathon runner
December 5 Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, Hindu saint
December 5 Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer
December 14 Dinah Washington, singer
December 28 Paul Hindemith, German composer
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