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Vintage (Pre-1963)
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). more...
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Events
January
January 1 - Bogle-Chandler case: CSIRO scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumably poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney.;
January 11 - The Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, California, the first disco in the United States, is opened.;
January 14 - George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!";
January 22 - France and Germany sign the Elysée Treaty.;
January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration.;
January 29 - French President Charles De Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the EEC.;
February
February 8 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.;
February 11 - The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created.;
February 21 - An earthquake destroys the village of Barce, Libya, killing 500.;
February 27 - Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic.;
February 27 - Female suffrage is enacted in Iran.;
February 28 - A large cloud resembling the face of Jesus is seen on Sunset Mountain, Arizona.;
March
March 1 - Yoko Ono's marriage to American Christian fundamentalist filmmaker Anthony Cox is annulled.;
March 4 - In Paris, 6 people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.;
March 16 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali, killing 11,000.;
March 18 - Gideon v. Wainwright: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the poor must have lawyers.;
March 21 - The Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes; the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.;
March 22 - The Beatles release the album Please Please Me.;
March 23 - Dansevise by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1963 for Denmark.;
March 27 - In Britain, Dr. Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the UK's rail network.;
April
April 3 - SCLC volunteers kick off the Birmingham campaign against segregation with a sit-in.;
April 7 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.;
April 10 - The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 miles east of Cape Cod with all hands (129 dead).;
April 12 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham protest for "parading without a permit".;
April 15 - 70,000 marchers arrive in London from Aldermarston, to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.;
April 16 - Martin Luther King, Jr. composes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail".;
April 20 – In Quebec, Canada, members of the Quebec terrorist group, the Front de libération du Québec, bomb the Canadian Armed Forces recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill.;
April 21-April 23 - First election of the Supreme Institution of the Bahá'í Faith, known as the Universal House of Justice whose Seat is at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.;
April 22 - Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's 14th prime minister.;
April 28 - A general election is held in Italy.;
April 29th- Buddy Rogers becomes first WWWF Champion.;
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