Timeline 1963
Return to home
1963 Jan 2, Viet
Cong downed five U.S. helicopters in the Mekong Delta; 30 were reported
to be dead.
(HN, 1/2/99)
1963 Jan 2, Dick Powell (b.1904),
American film star, producer and director, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Powell)
1963 Jan 3, Jim Everett III,
football player, was born: quarterback: Purdue Univ., LA Rams [Pro
Bowl: 1990], New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers.
(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)
1963 Jan 3, Telstar by The
Tornadoes
Bobby’s
Girl by Marcie Blane
Go Away
Little Girl by Steve Lawrence
Don’t Let
Me Cross Over by Carl Butler & Pearl (Dee Jones).
(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)
1963 Jan 5, "Camelot" closed at
the Majestic Theater, NYC, after 873 performances.
(MC, 1/5/02)
1963 Jan 5, "Carnival!" closes at
Imperial Theater, NYC, after 719 performances.
(MC, 1/5/02)
1963 Jan 6, "Oliver!" opened at
Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances.
(MC, 1/6/02)
1963 Jan 6, Mutual of Omaha's
"Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins began on NBC.
(AP, 1/6/03)(MC, 1/6/02)
1963 Jan 8, President John F.
Kennedy attended the unveiling of the Mona Lisa on loan at America's
National Gallery of Art.
(HN, 1/8/99)(MC, 1/8/02)
1963 Jan 11, The 1st discotheque
opened, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA.
(MC, 1/11/02)
1963 Jan 13, Togo’s first
president, Sylvanus Olympio, was killed by a military junta led by
Gngassigbe Eyadema (29). Eyadama suspended the constitution and
instituted direct military rule. Nicholas Grunitzky succeeded Olympio.
Gnassingbe went on to become the country's military dictator, ruling
for nearly four decades during which time he celebrated the day of
Olympio's assassination as a national holiday.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A12)(EWH, 1st ed., p.1172)(AP,
3/3/10)
1963 Jan 14, George C. Wallace was
sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of "segregation forever."
(AP, 1/14/98)
1963 Jan 14, President of France
Charles de Gaulle announced the French veto on Britain's application to
join the European Common Market, the forerunner of the European Union.
De Gaulle said the British government lacked 'commitment' to European
integration.
(www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/present_timeline_noflash.shtml)
1963 Jan 16, Nikita Khrushchev
claimed the USSR had a 100-megaton nuclear bomb.
(MC, 1/16/02)
1963 Jan 17, Soviet leader
Khrushchev visited the Berlin Wall.
(HN, 1/17/99)
1963 Jan 25, Wilson Kettle (102)
died, leaving 582 living descendents.
(MC, 1/25/02)
1963 Jan 28, Jean Felix Piccard,
Swiss explorer, died on his 79th birthday.
(MC, 1/28/02)
1963 Jan 29, The first members of
football's Hall of Fame were named in Canton, Ohio.
(AP, 1/29/98)(www.profootballhof.com/hof/years.jsp)
1963 Jan 29, Poet Robert Frost
(b.1874) died in Boston at age 88. In 1999 Jay Parini published "Robert
Frost: A Life." Lawrance Thompson authored a 3-volume biography
(1966-1976).
(AP, 1/29/98)(SFEC, 4/18/99, BR p.3)
1963 Jan, Gen. Charles de Gaulle
and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Franco-German
"reconciliation treaty."
(SFC, 12/25/99, p.B4)
1963 Feb 6, The United States
reported that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
(HN, 2/6/99)
1963 Feb 7, The "Mona Lisa" was
unveiled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
(HN, 2/7/99)
1963 Feb 8, In Iraq the Baath
Party first took power. Right-wing Baathists succeeded in mounting a
coup and executed PM Gen. Abdel Karim Qassim. Abdul Salam Arif came to
power. This was followed by a massacre of thousands of peasants,
communists and trade unionists. The Arab Baath Socialist Party pulled
off the coup and ruled Iraq for 9 months.
(HNQ, 6/20/99)(SFC, 8/6/99, p.D4)(AP, 5/26/03)(AP,
7/13/03)(NW, 9/8/03, p.32)
1963 Feb 9, 1st flight of Boeing
727 jet.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1963 Feb 11, A CIA Domestic
Operations Division was created.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1963 Feb 11, Sylvia Plath (30),
American writer, committed suicide by gas in London after Ted Hughes
left her for another woman. Her autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar"
was published this year. She had been married to English poet Ted
Hughes (d.1998), who in 1998 published a 198 page book of verse
"Birthday Letters" based on their relationship. The woman for whom
Hughes left Plath committed suicide 5 years later. Plath’s 1981
"Collected Poems" won a Pulitzer Prize. The Plath book of poems "Ariel"
was published after her death. In 2000 her uncensored diaries: "The
Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath," were edited by Karen V. Kukil.
(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A10)(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.C5)(SFEC,
3/26/00, p.A25)(SFEC, 11/12/00, BR p.1)
1963 Feb 12, Argentina asked for
the extradition of ex-president Peron.
(MC, 2/12/02)
1963 Feb 15, Ken Lynch recorded
"Misery." It was the 1st Lennon-McCartney song recorded by someone else.
(440 Int’l., 2/15/99)
1963 Feb 16, 1st round-trip swim
of Straits of Messina, Italy, was made by Mary Revell of US.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1963 Feb 17, Michael Jordon,
Chicago Bulls basketball player, was born. He led the Bulls to three
consecutive NBA titles and was considered by some to be the greatest
basketball player ever.
(HN, 2/17/99)
1963 Feb 19, The Soviet Union
informed President Kennedy it would withdraw "several thousand" of an
estimated 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba.
(AP, 2/19/98)
1963 Feb 20, Moscow offered to
allow on-site inspection of nuclear testing.
(HN, 2/20/98)
1963 Feb 22, Moscow warned the
U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1963 Feb 27, The USSR said that
10,000 troops would remain in Cuba.
(HN, 2/27/98)
1963 Feb-Mar, The US military,
while conducting biological weapons tests, sprayed Bacillus globigii
from aircraft near Fort Sherman Military Reservation in the Canal Zone.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
1963 Mar 1, 200,000 French mine
workers went on strike.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1963 Mar 3, Senegal adopted a
constitution.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1963 Mar 4, William Carlos
Williams (79), US physician, poet, died.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1963 Mar 4, Six people got the
death sentence in Paris plotting to kill de Gaulle.
(HN, 3/4/98)
1963 Mar 5, A private plane crash
near Camden, Tenn., claimed the lives of country music performers
Patsy Cline (30), "Cowboy" Copas and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins, as well as
pilot Randy Hughes, Cline's manager.
(AP, 3/5/08)
1963 Mar 6, Jimmy Lee Smith and
Gregory Powell abducted 2 Los Angeles police officers from a Hollywood
street, drove them to an onion field in Bakersfield and shot officer
Ian Campbell to death. Officer Karl Hettinger managed to escape. Smith
served 19 years for his role in the case before he was paroled. In 1973
Joseph Wambaugh authored “The Onion Field,” a novel based on the
murder. The novel was turned into a film in 1979.
(SFC, 6/28/05, p.B8)
1963 Mar 12, US House granted
former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill honorary U.S.
citizenship.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1963 Mar 13, China invited
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to visit Peking.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1963 Mar 16, Phung Vuong, murderer
(FBI Most Wanted List), was born in Saigon, Vietnam.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1963 Mar 17, Eruptions of Mount
Agung volcano on Bali killed 1,900 Balinese. The Agung eruption killed
1,184 people.
(SFC, 1/19/02, p.A14)(MC, 3/17/02)
1963 Mar 18, Vanessa L. Williams,
1st black Miss America (1983), singer, was born in Millwood, NY.
(MC, 3/18/02)
1963 Mar 18, The US Supreme Court
made its Gideon v Wainwright ruling which said poor defendants have a
constitutional right to an attorney. Gideon had been forced to defend
himself in Florida in Jan 1962, and petitioned the Supreme Court to
hear his complaint.
(SFC, 11/21/03, p.D4)(SSFC, 11/30/03, p.A31)(Econ,
4/4/09, p.39)
1963 Mar 19, In Costa Rica,
President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to
fight Communism.
(HN, 3/19/98)
1963 Mar 19, Algeria demanded that
France negotiate on ending nuclear testing in Algerian Sahara.
(AP, 3/19/03)
1963 Mar 20, The 1st "Pop Art"
exhibition was held in NYC.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1963 Mar 21, The Alcatraz federal
prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates at
the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
(SFC, 6/29/96, p.E4)(SFC, 5/19/96,City Guide,
p.7)(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A12)(AP, 3/21/97)(HN, 3/21/98)
1963 Mar 21, Boxer Davey Moore was
killed by Sugar Ramos in Dodger Stadium during a nationally televised
boxing match. In 1964 Bob Dylan wrote his song “Who Killed Davey Moore?”
(www.answers.com/topic/davey-moore)
1963 Mar 22, British Minister of
War John Profumo denied having sex with Christine Keeler. The Profumo
call girl scandal almost toppled the government. Profumo, a leading
British Conservative and minister for war, was discovered to have been
involved with Keeler, a call girl who was also dealing with a Soviet
attaché. Valerie Hobson (d.1998 at 81), his actress wife, stood
by him after the scandal. A 1995 Masterpiece Theater TV play was based
on these events.
(TMC, 1994, p.1963)(WSJ, 12/28/95, p. A-5)(SFEC,
11/15/98, p.D5)(MC, 3/22/02)
1963 Feb 20, Rolf Hochhuth's "Der
Stellvertreter" (The Representative) premiered in Berlin. The work
indicted Pope Pius XII for Nazi complicity during WW II. The Catholic
Church was outraged at the portrayal of Pius XII as a war criminal. An
English translation by Richard and Clara Winston was published as “The
Deputy: A Play,” by Grove Press in 1964. In 2002 The Deputy was made
into the film “Amen.” by Costa Gavras.
(WSJ, 4/25/97,
p.A18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deputy)(Econ, 10/25/08, p.73)
1963 Mar 27, John F. Kennedy met
with King Hassan II of Morocco.
(HN, 3/27/98)
1963 Mar 28, Alec A. Templeton
(52), composer, pianist (Alec Templeton Time), died.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1963 Mar 31, LA ended streetcar
service after 90 years.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1963 Mar, Pakistan and China
signed a historic border agreement. Three years later, the two
countries agreed to construct a road that would provide a hitherto
non-existent road-link for mutual benefit. In 1978 the Karakoram
Highway from Kashgar, China, to the edge of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, was
completed.
(www.pakpost.gov.pk/philately/stamps2003/karakoram_highway.html)
1963 Mar, Norman Borlaug, plant
breeder, arrived in India and began testing new varieties of Mexican
wheat, whose yields were shown to be 4-5 times better than Indian
varieties. In 1970 he won the Nobel Prize for his development of
high-yield wheat varieties for which he was dubbed father of the "Green
Revolution."
(SFC, 10/15/97, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/3/02, p.A1)(Econ,
12/24/05, p.30)
1963 Mar, In Syria the pan-Arab
Baath party staged a coup. Hafez Assad played an important role. Amin
Hafez 1920-2009) was brought to power by the military coup only to be
overthrown three years later.
(WSJ, 6/12/00, p.A30)(SSFC, 5/4/03, p.A11)(AP,
12/18/09)
1963 Apr 1, The daytime television
drama "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premiered on ABC.
(AP, 4/1/98)(OTD)
1963
Apr 1, Most of New York City's daily newspapers
resumed publishing after settlement was reached in a 114-day
strike. Workers of the International Typographical Union ended
their strike that had closed nine New York City newspapers. The strike
ended 114 days after began on December 8, 1962.
(AP, 4/1/08)(OTD)
1963 Apr 2, Reverend Dr. Martin
Luther King began the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham,
Alabama.
(AP, 4/2/99)
1963 Apr 6, The United States and
Britain signed an agreement under which the Americans would sell
Polaris A-3 missiles to the British.
(AP, 4/6/97)
1963 Apr 7, Yugoslavia
proclaimed itself a Socialist republic.
(HN, 4/7/97)
1963 Apr 8, Julian Lennon, John
Lennon’s son, singer (Too Late for Goodbyes), was born.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1963 Apr 8, In the 35th Academy
Awards "Lawrence of Arabia," Anne Bancroft and Gregory Peck won.
(MC, 4/8/02)
1963 Apr 9, British statesman
Winston Churchill was made an honorary U.S. citizen.
(AP, 4/9/97)(HN, 4/9/98)
1963 Apr 10, The USS Thresher
nuclear-powered submarine failed to surface 220 miles east of Boston,
Mass., in a disaster that claimed 129 lives.
(www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/ssn593.htm)
1963 Apr 11, John XXIII put forth
his encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty."
(MC, 4/11/02)
1963 Apr 12, Police used dogs and
cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham,
Alabama.
(HN, 4/12/98)
1963 Apr 13, Gary Kimovich
Kasparov, world chess champion (1985-2000), was born in the USSR.
(MC, 4/13/02)(SFC, 1/16/04, p.D19)
1963 Apr 18, Dr. James Campbell
performed the 1st human nerve transplant.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1963 Apr 27, Cuban premier Fidel
Castro arrived in Moscow.
(MC, 4/27/02)
1963 Apr 28, In the 17th Tony
Awards: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum won.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1863 Apr, In Venezuela the
hostilities of the Federal War ended with negotiations for the Treaty
of Coche, singed on May 22. This was the biggest civil war Venezuela
had had since its independence.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_War)
1963 May 1, James Whittaker became
the 1st American to conquer Mount Everest as he and a Sherpa guide
reached the summit.
(AP, 5/1/03)
1963 May 3, In Birmingham,
Alabama, police Commissioner Bull Connor unleashed dogs and
high-powered fire hoses on boycott-bound school children.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, p.T5)(SFEC, 3/1/98, Z1 p.1)
1963 May 6, A Pulitzer prize was
awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August).
(MC, 5/6/02)
1963 May 7, The United States
launched the Telstar II communications satellite. It made the first
public transatlantic broadcast.
(HNQ, 5/3/99)(AP, 5/7/00)
1963 May 8, "Dr. No" premiered in
US.
(MC, 5/8/02)
1963 May 8, JFK offered Israel
assistance against aggression.
(MC, 5/8/02)
1963 May 8, Problems with the
Buddhists began in Hue, Vietnam. The Diem Government decided to
demonstrate its strength by enforcing a law against the display of
flags other than the national flag. In defiance, the Buddhists lined
the streets flying their flags regardless of the new law; this defiance
turned bloody when troops fired into the crowd, killing nine. Diem now
claimed that the Buddhists were affiliates of the Communists and
tightened security around the more active pagodas.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWvietnam.htm)
1963 May 11, "Puff The Magic
Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary hit #2.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1963 May 11, Racial bomb attacks
took place in Birmingham, Alabama.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1963 May 12, There was a race riot
in Birmingham, Alabama.
(MC, 5/12/02)
1963 May 15, Peter, Paul &
Mary won their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer).
(MC, 5/15/02)
1963 May 15, U.S. astronaut L.
Gordon Cooper blasted off atop an Atlas rocket aboard Faith 7 on
the final mission of the Project Mercury space program. He orbited
Earth 22 times and manually piloted his craft to a pinpoint splashdown.
(AP, 5/15/97)(WSJ, 11/7/97, p.A1)(HN, 5/15/98)
1963 May 16, After 22 Earth orbits
Gordon Cooper returned to Earth in Friendship Seven, ending Project
Mercury.
(HN, 5/16/98)
1963 May 18, "Beast in Me" closed
at Plymouth Theater in NYC after 4 performances.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1963 May 18, "If You Wanna Be
Happy" by Jimmy Soul hit #1.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1963 May 18, In the 89th
Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots won in 1:56.2.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1963 May 20, A fire in New Jersey
burned out of control and killed 7 people. Nearly 1,000 were left
homeless as the fire moved 9 miles in 6 hours on what was called Black
Saturday.
(SFC, 5/20/09, p.D8)
1963 May 20, Sukarno was appointed
president of Indonesia.
(MC, 5/20/02)
1963 May 20-1963 May 23, In East
Pakistan a cyclone killed about 22,000 along coast of the Bay of Bengal.
(www.emergency-management.net/cyclone.htm)
1863 May 22, The Treaty of Coche
was signed in Venezuela. Arms were laid down from the Federal War and a
general assembly called at Victoria, which elected Juan Chrisostomo
Falcon as president and Antonio Leocadio Guzman as vice president. The
latter was at the same time secretary of the treasury, and went to
London to negotiate a loan.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Guzm%C3%A1n_Blanco)
1963 May 25, "Hot Spot" closed at
Majestic Theater in NYC after 43 performances.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1963 May 25, The Organization of
African Unity (OAU) was founded, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by Chad,
Mauritania & Zambia. In 2001 it was replaced the African Union.
(AP, 5/25/97)(SFC, 7/12/01, p.A12)(SC, 5/25/02)
1963 May 27, Jomo Kenyatta was
elected 1st prime minister of Kenya.
(MC, 5/27/02)
1963 May 28, Down Jones went
public. 110,000 shares of Dow Jones common stock were sold to the
public.
(WSJ, 8/1/07,
p.B6)(www.scripophily.net/dowjocoinde.html)
1963 May 28, Vissarion Yakovlevich
Shebalin (60), composer, died.
(MC, 5/28/02)
1963 May 29, Lisa Whelchel,
actress (Blair-Facts of Life, Mickey Mouse Club), was born in Fort
Worth, TX.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1963 May, Timothy Leary and
Richard Alpert (32), psychology professors, were fired from Harvard for
experimenting with psychedelic drugs. Alpert later traveled to India
and returned as Ram Dass. In 1971 Alpert authored "Be Here Now" and in
2000 published "Still Here – Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying."
(SFC, 12/21/96, p.A12)(SFEC, 5/23/99, Z1 p.5)(SFC,
5/2/00, p.A2)
1963 Jun 1, R.C., "El Watusi" by
Ray Barreto peaked at #17 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, R.C., "I Love You
Because" by Al Martino peaked at #3 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, R.C., "It's My Party"
by Lesley Gore peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, R.C., "Two Faces Have
I" by Lou Christie peaked at #6 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1963 Jun 1, Governor George
Wallace vowed to defy an injunction ordering integration of the
University of Alabama.
(HN, 6/1/98)
1963 Jun 3, Pope John XXIII died
at the age of 81, ending a papacy marked by innovative reforms in the
Roman Catholic Church. He was succeeded by Pope Paul VI.
(AP, 6/3/97)
1963 Jun 5, John Profumo
(1915-2006), British Minister of War, resigned due his relations with
Christine Keeler. [see mar 22]
(AP, 3/10/06)
1963 Jun 5, A state of siege was
proclaimed in Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini was arrested.
(MC, 6/5/02)
1963 Jun 7, The Rolling Stones
made their 1st TV appearance.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1963 Jun 7, Zasu Pitts (65),
actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), died.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1963 Jun 9, JFK named Winston
Churchill a US honorary citizen.
(MC, 6/9/02)
1963 Jun 9, A US Equal Pay Act was
enacted.
(MC, 6/9/02)
1963 Jun 10, JFK signed an equal
pay for equal work law for men & women.
(MC, 6/10/02)
1963 Jun 11, JFK said segregation
is morally wrong & that it is "time to act."
(SC, 6/11/02)
1963 Jun 11, Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
(HN, 6/11/98)
1963 Jun 11, Federal troops were
used to force Alabama Gov. George Wallace to accept black students,
Vivian Malone Jones and James Wood, at the Univ. of Alabama. In 1996
George Wallace apologized in a formal ceremony. Gen'l. Henry V. Graham
(d.1999 at 82) of the National Guard escorted Wallace from the doorway
at Foster Auditorium.
(WSJ, 5/13/96, p.A-16)(SFC, 10/11/96, p.A3)
1963 Jun 11, Greek Premier
Constantine Caramanlis resigned in protest of King Paul's state visit
to Britain.
(AP, 6/11/03)
1963 Jun 11, Buddhist monk Quang
Duc immolated himself on a Saigon street to protest the government of
South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
(AP,
6/11/97)(www.buddhistinformation.com/self_immolation.htm)
1963 Jun 12, One of Hollywood's
costliest failures, "Cleopatra," starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard
Burton and Rex Harrison, premiered in New York.
(AP, 6/12/98)
1963 Jun 12, Medgar Evers (37),
leader (field director) of the NAACP in Mississippi, was fatally shot
in front of his home in Jackson by the KKK. An informant in the KKK,
Delmar Dennis (1940-1996), later served as a key prosecution witness in
convicting Byron De La Beckwith for the slaying. Beckwith was convicted
of murdering Evers and sentenced to life in prison; he died in 2001 at
age 80. A book by Bill McIlhany titled “Klandestine” recounts the
story. In 1996 Whoopi Goldberg starred in the film “Ghosts of
Mississippi” as the widow of Medgar Evers. In 1998 Willie Morris wrote
“The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and
Hollywood.”
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C5)(NYT, 6/7/96, p.B14)(AP,
6/12/97)(SFEC, 2/1/98, BR p.5)(SFC, 1/22/01, p.A22)
1963 Jun 15, "Sound of Music"
closed at Lunt Fontanne Theater in NYC after 1443 performances.
(MC, 6/15/02)
1963 Jun 15, Juan Marichal (25),
pitcher for the SF Giants, dueled for 16 innings with Warren Spahn
(42), of the Milwaukee Braves in a 5-hour game at Candlestick. Willie
Mays hit the 428th pitch of the night over left field.
(SFC, 4/4/03, p.D3)
1963 Jun 15, Israeli premier David
Ben-Gurion resigned.
(MC, 6/15/02)
1963 Jun 16, The world's first
female space traveler, Valentina Tereshkova, was launched into orbit by
the Soviet Union aboard Vostok VI.
(AP, 6/16/98)
1963 Jun 17, The US Supreme Court
ruled 8-1 to strike down rules requiring the recitation of the Lord's
Prayer or reading of Biblical verses in public schools. The case began
in 1956 when Edward L. Schempp (d.2003), on behalf of his son, objected
to a 1949 Pennsylvania law requiring 10 Bible verses each day followed
by the Lord's Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.
(AP, 6/17/97)(HN, 6/17/98)(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A18)
1963 Jun 17, British House of
Commons debated the John Profumo-Christine Keeler affair, which
involved the defense minister and the call-girl he shared with a
Russian agent.
(MC, 6/17/02)
1963 Jun 17, John Cowper Powys
(b.1872), English author, died. In 2007 Morine Krissdottir authored
“Descent of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys.” His 10 novels
included “Wolf Solent,” the story of a young man’s rebellion against
the modern world.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cowper_Powys)(WSJ, 9/8/07, p.P9)
1963 Jun 18, 3,000 blacks
boycotted Boston public school.
(MC, 6/18/02)
1963 Jun 19, Soviet cosmonaut
Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days
as the first woman in space.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)(HN, 6/19/98)
1963 Jun 20, The United States and
Soviet Union signed an agreement in Geneva to set up a hot line
communications link between the two superpowers and a treaty was signed
limiting nuclear testing. It came about because of the Cuban missile
crises, which began on October 22, 1962. The Hot Line was not used
until the Six-Day War of 1967.
(TMC, 1994, p.1963)(AP, 6/20/97)(HN, 6/20/98)(HNPD,
10/18/99)
1963 Jun 21, Cardinal Giovanni
Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head
of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pope took the name Paul VI.
(AP, 6/21/97)
1963 Jun 21, France announced it
would withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic.
(HN, 6/21/98)
1963 Jun 24, 1st demonstration of
home video recorder was at the BBC Studios in London.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1963 Jun 24, Levi Eshkol formed an
Israeli government.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1963 Jun 24, Zanzibar was granted
internal self-government by Britain.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1963 Jun 26, President Kennedy
visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein
Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall. Rumors later spread
that the misplaced article "ein" made an exact translation to say "I am
a jelly donut."
(AP, 6/26/97)(HN, 6/26/98)(SFC, 2/3/00, p.A25)
1963 Jun 27, Pres. Kennedy spent
his 1st full day in Ireland.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1963 Jun 27, Henry Cabot Lodge was
appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.
(HN, 6/27/98)
1963 Jun 27, USAF Major Robert A.
Rushworth reached an altitude of 53.9 miles in the X-15.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15)
1963 Jun 28, Khrushchev visited
East-Berlin.
(MC, 6/28/02)
1963 Jun 30, Cardinal Montini was
crowned as Pope Paul VI, the 262nd head of the Roman Catholic Church.
(AP, 6/30/97)(MC, 6/30/02)
1963 Jul 1, The U.S. Post Office
inaugurated its five-digit ZIP codes. The Zoning Improvement Plan was
initially developed by Robert Aurand Moon (d.2001 at 83).
(AP, 7/1/97)(HN, 7/1/98)(SFC, 4/16/01, p.A22)
1963 Jul 2, President John F.
Kennedy met Pope Paul the Sixth at the Vatican, the first meeting
between a Roman Catholic US chief executive and the head of the
Catholic Church.
(AP, 7/2/00)
1963 Jul 4, Naturalization
ceremonies began to be held annually at Monticello, Virginia.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A3)
1963 Jul 8, Reports were made of
Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's baseball team to Oakland.
(MC, 7/8/02)
1963 Jul 8, US banned all monetary
transactions with Cuba.
(MC, 7/8/02)
1963 Jul 12, French Pres. Charles
de Gaulle pronounced that "Treaties are like roses and young girls --
they last while they last."
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A11)
1963 Jul 25, The United States,
the Soviet Union and Britain initialed a treaty in Moscow prohibiting
the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in space or
underwater.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1963 Jul 25, Ugo Cerletti
(b.1877), Italian neurosurgeon, died. In the 1930s he and Lucio Bini
pioneered the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), electric shock,
to cure patients of depression.
(Econ, 6/3/06,
p.78)(www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/511.html)
1963 Jul 26, Skopje, Yugoslavia,
was destroyed by earthquake and over 1,000 were killed.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1963 Jul 27, Garrett A. Morgan
(86), inventor and founder of the Cleveland Call, died.
(ON, 3/02, p.12)
1963 Jul 30, British spy Kim
Philby was discovered in Moscow. Philby, writer for The Economist, who
spent six years filing dispatches from the Middle East, was discovered
to be a spy and defected to the Soviet Union.
(WSJ, 6/6/95, p.A-14)(MC, 7/30/02)
1963 Jul, Interest Equalization
Tax was a domestic tax measure implemented by US President John F.
Kennedy. It was meant to make it less profitable for US investors to
invest abroad by taxing the interest on foreign securities.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_Equalization_Tax)
1963 Jul, Serial killers
Myra Hindley (d.2002) and her boyfriend, Ian Brady (the Moors
Murderers), began abducting, molesting and killing children in Britain.
The pair were caught in Oct, 1965.
(AP, 11/16/02)
1963 Aug 3, James Hetfield, heavy
metal rocker (Metallica-Helpless), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1963 Aug 3, Carlo Imperato, actor
(Fame), was born in Bronx, NYC.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1963 Aug 3, Allan Sherman released
"Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda."
(SC, 8/3/02)
1963 Aug 3, Beatles made a final
performance the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1963 Aug 5, The United States,
Britain and the Soviet Union signed a Limited Test Ban Treaty in Moscow
banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, space and underwater. Public
pressure helped JFK signed the ban on atmospheric atom bomb tests.
(AP, 8/5/97)(SFC, 11/26/01, p.A10)(SSFC, 7/15/07,
p.D1)
1963 Aug 8, Britain's "Great Train
Robbery" took place as thieves made off with 120 mailbags with 2.62
million pounds in banknotes. 15 men under Bruce Reynolds held up the
Glasgow to London Royal Mail (Glasgow-Euston train) and took off with
$7.2 mil in sterling. They badly beat up train driver Jack Mills. He
never returned to work and died seven years later without making a full
recovery. Ronald Biggs claimed to be one of the 15 men and later lived
freely in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His share of the robbery was $2.8 mil
but he was arrested just four weeks after the robbery. He escaped from
Wandsworth Prison in 1965 and was still wanted in Britain. Only 1/8 of
the money stolen was ever recovered. Dinner at home with Mr. Biggs
could be purchased for $50. In 1994 Biggs published an autobiography.
In 1999 a video game was developed based on the event. Biggs (71)
returned to Britain in 2001 and in 2009 he was up for parole.
(SFE, 10/1/95, p.T-8)(AP, 8/8/97)(WSJ, 11/4/99,
p.A28)(WSJ, 5/7/01, p.A1)(AFP, 7/1/09)
1963 Aug 13, A 17 year-old
Buddhist monk burned himself to death in Saigon, South Vietnam.
(HN, 8/13/98)
1963 Aug 18, James Meredith became
the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
(AP, 8/18/97)
1963 Aug 19, NAACP Youth Council
began sit-ins at lunch counters in Oklahoma City.
(MC, 8/19/02)
1963 Aug 19, Newsweek quoted
Madame Nhu, official hostess of the South Vietnamese government,
offering to light the match of the next Buddhist monk suicide.
(NW 8/19/63)(SFC, 1/23/04,
p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/93lc5)
1963 Aug 21, Martial law was
declared in South Vietnam as police and army troops began a crackdown
on Buddhist anti-government protesters.
(AP, 8/21/08)
1963 Aug 22, The X-15 aircraft set
an altitude record of 67 miles.
(NPub, 2002, p.20)
1963 Aug 23, Beatles released "She
Loves You" in UK.
(MC, 8/23/02)
1963 Aug 24, Pres. Kennedy allowed
a cable to be sent to Ambassador Lodge in Vietnam that backed a
military coup against Pres. Diem. Kennedy gave tacit approval for a
coup against Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. Diem was killed Nov
2.
(SFC, 11/25/98, p.A2)(SFEM, 4/11/99, p.41)
1963 Aug 26, Orders came from
Washington to destroy all cables sent to Saigon, South Vietnam, back to
Aug 24.
(SFEM, 4/11/99, p.42)
1963 Aug 27, William Edward
Burghardt Du Bois (b.1868), sociologist, influential leader of black
Americans, founder of the National Negro Committee which eventually
became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,
died in Accra, Ghana at the age of 95. He coined the phrase "double
consciousness" to describe the black survival skill of moving between
the black and white American culture.
(WUD, 1994, p.439)(SFEC, 3/22/98, BR p.5)(HNPD,
2/23/99)(HNQ, 5/11/99)
1963 Aug 27, Cambodia severed ties
with South Vietnam.
(HN, 8/27/98)
1963 Aug 28, The civil rights
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom drew 200-250,000 demonstrators
and was the occasion for King’s "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the
Lincoln Memorial. It was organized by Bayard Rustin (1912-1987). In
1997 a biography of Rustin by Jervis Anderson was published: "Bayard
Rustin: The Troubles I’ve Seen." The 1997 play "Civil Sex" by Brian
Freeman was based on Rustin’s life. Rev. Thomas Kilgore Jr. (d.1998 at
84) helped organize the march on Washington. Martin Luther King led
marches on Washington and Selma, Alabama. His chief lieutenant was
Andrew Young who in 1996 wrote: "An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights
Movement and the Transformation of America."
(WSJ, 11/6/96, p.A21)(SFEC, 1/26/97 BR, p.4)(WSJ,
1/30/97, p.A14)(AP, 8/28/97)(SFC, 2/7/98, p.21)(HN, 8/28/98)
1963 Aug 28, Evergreen Point
Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opened.
(MC, 8/28/01)
1963 Aug 30, The hot line, a rapid
communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into
operation to avoid miscalculations during an emergency.
(AP, 8/30/97)(HNPD, 10/30/99)
1963 Aug 30, Guy Burgess (b.1911),
British spy for the USSR, died in Moscow.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Burgess)
1963 Aug 31, Dick Gibson (d.1998),
jazz lover, held his first Gibson Colorado Jazz Party at the Hotel
Jerome in Aspen. He flew in some of the world’s top jazz musicians and
began an annual Labor Day weekend tradition that lasted 30 years.
(WSJ, 3/20/07, p.D6)
1963 Aug 31, George F. Braque
(81), cubist painter, died in Paris.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1963 Aug, Phil Graham, publisher
of the Washington Post, committed suicide. His wife, Katherine Graham,
took over as publisher. She published her autobiography in 1997:
"Personal History."
(SFEC, 2/9/97, BR p.1)
1963 Sep 1, Turkey moved
politically closer to Europe with the Treaty of Ankara. It reduced
duties and implicitly recognized Turkey’s right to join the European
Economic Community.
(http://tinyurl.com/tgab2)(WSJ, 9/7/04, p.A10)(WSJ,
10/6/04, p.A17)
1963 Sep 2, "The CBS Evening News"
was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
(AP, 9/2/97)
1963 Sep 2, Alabama Gov. George C.
Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling
the building with state troopers.
(AP, 9/2/97)(HN, 9/2/98)
1963 Sep 3, Louis MacNeice
(b.1907), northern Irish poet, died. His name was often subsumed under
the collective name of Macspaunday, which referred to the generation of
politically-committed 1930s poets: MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W.H.
Auden and C. Day-Lewis. MacNeice’s collected poems were published in
2007.
(Econ, 9/29/07,
p.89)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_MacNeice)
1963 Sep 7, The Beatles made their
1st US TV appearance on ABC’s Big Night Out.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1963 Sep 7, American Bandstand
moved to California and aired once a week on Saturday.
(MC, 9/7/01)
1963 Sep 7, The National
Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
(AP, 9/7/97)
1963 Sep 9, In Italy a landslide
into Vaiont Dam emptied a lake and killed 3-4,000 people.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1963 Sep 9, Alabama Gov George
Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to
bar black students from enrolling in white schools.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1963 Sep 10, 20 black students
entered public schools in Birmingham, Tuskegee and Mobile, Ala.,
following a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C.
Wallace. President John F. Kennedy federalized Alabama's National Guard
to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop
public-school desegregation.
(AP, 9/10/97)(HN, 9/10/98)
1963 Sep 13, "Outer Limits"
premiered on ABC TV. It was partly written, produced and directed
by Leslie Stevens (d.1998) and ran to 1965.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.C2)(MC, 9/13/01)
1963 Sep 13, The last bucket of
concrete was poured on the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River to
form Lake Powell. It marked the beginning of a 290 mile stretch of the
river from the dam through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. It was built
to provide power to six Western states. The lake filled by 1980. [last
source says the lake filled within 5 years]
(SFC, 4/12/96, p.E-3)(SFC, 5/19/97, p.A10)(SFEC,
8/24/97, p.A1)(NH, 9/97, p.40)
1963 Sep 14, Mary Ann Fischer of
Aberdeen, S.D., gave birth to four girls and a boy, the first surviving
quintuplets in the United States.
(AP, 9/14/03)
1963 Sep 15, The Alou
brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appeared in the San Francisco
outfield for 1 inning.
(http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=20238)
1963 Sep 15, The Ku Klux Klan
bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young
black girls (Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Collins, and
Cynthia Wesley) were killed in the bombing as they prepared their
Sunday school lesson on "The love that forgives." Later on the same day
James Ware,16, and his brother Virgil, 14, were shot at while bicycling
home. Virgil was killed. Another James Ware went on to become a US
district judge and falsely used the James and Virgil Ware story for
self promotion. Judge Ware withdrew from a new appointment to the SF
9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1997 after he admitted that he was not
the same James Ware. In Birmingham, Alabama, police dogs were set on
peaceful, Black demonstrators. The 1997 film "Four Little Girls" by
Spike Lee was a documentary of the church burning in Alabama. In 1977
Robert Chambliss (d.1985) was tried and convicted of murder. Suspect
Herman Cash died in 1994. In 2000 Thomas E. Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank
Cherry (d.2004) turned themselves in after they were indicted by a
state grand jury. In 2001 Thomas Blanton was convicted of murder and
sentenced to life in prison. Cherry was convicted May 22, 2002, and
sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 4/14/96, p.Z1, p.1)(SFC, 8/16/96, p.D11)(SFEC,
3/16/97, p.T5)(SFEC, 5/18/97, DB p.45)(SFC,11/6/97, p.A9)(AP,
9/15/97)(SFC, 5/18/00, p.A1)(SFC, 5/2/01, p.A1)(SFC, 5/23/02, p.A1)(NW,
5/27/02, p.43)
1963 Sep 16, The science-fiction
anthology series "The Outer Limits" premiered on ABC. It ran to 1965.
(AP, 9/16/98)(SFEM, 2/28/99, p.4)
1963 Sep 16, The Federation of
Malaysia was formally established. Sabak and Sarawak, Britain’s
colonies on Borneo, joined the Malayan peninsula to form Malaysia with
Tunku Abdul Rahman (60) as prime minister. The federation formed under
bitter opposition from Indonesia, which refused to recognize the
country and waged a guerrilla war against it. Race riots erupted
between ethnic Malays and the Chinese majority.
(PC, 1992, p.988)(HNQ, 5/14/98)(SSFC, 3/10/02,
p.C10)(Econ, 9/20/08, p.60)
1963 Sep 17, "The Fugitive,"
starring David Janssen, premiered on ABC. It was written and produced
by Roy Huggins (d.2002). Kimble was cleared on the Aug 29, 1967, and
narrator William Conrad announced "the day the running stopped." In
1993 Ed Robertson authored the companion book ""The Fugitive
Recaptured." In 1993 a film was made based on the TV series with
Harrison Ford as Kimble.
(AP, 9/17/98)(WSJ, 10/16/00, p.A32)(SFC, 4/15/02,
p.B5)
1963 Sep 18, "The Patty Duke Show"
premiered on ABC television.
(AP, 9/18/03)
1963 Sep 18, USSR orders 58.5
million barrels of cereal from Australia.
(MC, 9/18/01)
1963 Sep 20, In a speech to the
U.N. General Assembly, President Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet
expedition to the moon. Pres. Kennedy stayed at New York’s Carlyle
Hotel and received a "leggy babe" under Secret Service escort.
(AP, 9/20/97)(WSJ, 10/22/01, p.A17)
1963 Sep 23, Annual report of 1996
reported that Becton Dickinson stock was first listed on NYSE.
(AR, 1996, p.2)(Calendar 1/97)
1963 Sep 24, The U.S. Senate
ratified a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting nuclear
testing.
(AP, 9/24/99)
1963 Sep 26, Lee Harvey Oswald
traveled on a Continental Trailways bus to Mexico.
(MC, 9/26/01)
1963 Sep 27, Lee Harvey Oswald
visited the Cuban consulate in Mexico.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1963 Sep 27, At 10:59 AM census
clock, the US population was recorded at 190,000,000.
(MC, 9/27/01)
1963 Sep 28, "New Phil Silvers
Show," debuted on CBS-TV.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1963 Sep 28, Murray The K, a NY DJ
played "She Loves You" on the radio.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1963 Sep 29, "The Judy Garland
Show" premiered on CBS.
(AP, 9/29/04)
1963 Sep 29, The situation comedy
"My Favorite Martian" premiered on CBS. It starred Bill Bixby and Ray
Walston (d.2000 at 86). The show ran to 1966.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A17)(AP, 9/29/03)
1963 Sep 29, The second session of
Second Vatican Council opened in Rome.
(AP, 9/29/97)
1963 Sep, The Federal Hourly
Minimum Wage was set at $1.25 an hour.
(http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/blminwage.htm)
1963 Sep, The Treaty of Anakara on
reducing duties implicitly recognized Turkey’s right to join the
European Economic Community.
(WSJ, 10/6/04, p.A17)
1963 Oct 1, Mark McGwire was born.
He later became a baseball 1st baseman, AL rookie of year 1988, Oakland
A's, Cards, 70 home run record.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1963 Oct 2, Defense Sec. Robert
McNamara told Pres. Kennedy in a cabinet meeting that: "We need a way
to get out of Vietnam." McNamara proposed to replace the 16,000 US
advisors with Canadian personnel.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A2)
1963 Oct 2, W. German Chancellor
Adenauer condemned western grain shipments to USSR.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1963 Oct 3, Meredith Wilson’s
Broadway musical “Here’s Love,” featuring Dom DeLuise, opened at the
Shubert Theater. The show close on July 25, 1964.
(SFC, 5/6/09,
p.A9)(www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3024)
1963 Oct 4-8, Hurricane Flora,
killed 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. Hurricane Flora killed an estimated
7-8,000 people.
(SFC, 11/30/98, p.A2)(MC, 10/4/01)
1963 Oct 7, President Kennedy
signed the documents of ratification for a limited nuclear test ban
treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. Testing was outlawed in the
atmosphere, underwater and in outer space.
(AP, 10/7/97)(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F4)
1963 Oct 7, Bobby Baker resigned
as Senate Democratic secretary after being charged in a
300-thousand-dollar civil suit with using his influence for personal
monetary gains.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1963 Oct 8, Remedios Varo
(b.1908), Spanish-born surrealist painter, died in Mexico. Walter
Gruen, her 11-year lover and promoter, collected her work and in 1987
attempted to get copyright protection. A Mexican judge denied his
request due to Varo’s failure to get a formal divorce from French poet
Benjamin Peret. In 1999 the Mexican government tried to seize the
paintings on behalf of Mexico but faced a claim by next of kin niece
Beatriz Varo. By 2005 Mr. Gruen agreed to give his entire collection to
the Mexican government if it gets named after his deceased daughter.
(http://tinyurl.com/b87uu)(WSJ, 9/20/05, p.A1)
1963 Oct 9, British premier Harold
MacMillan resigned.
(MC, 10/9/01)
1963 Oct 9, A dam in Piave valley
of Italy, broke and about 2,000 died. [see Sep 9]
(MC, 10/9/01)
1963 Oct 10, A dam burst in Italy,
and over 3,000 died. [see Sep 9, Oct 9]
(MC, 10/10/01)
1963 Oct 11, A National Security
Action memorandum that recommended plans to withdraw 1,000 US Military
personnel by the end of the year was approved. The memo followed
McNamara’s return from a trip to South Vietnam.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A2)
1963 Oct 11, Jean Cocteau, French
author (La Voie Humaine), surrealist poet, artist and film director,
died at 73. His lover Lean Marais later published a biography of
Cocteau called "L’Inconcevable Jean Cocteau." In 2003 Claude Arnaud
authored the biography "Jean Cocteau."
(SFC, 11/10/98, p.A24)(SFC, 10/6/03, p.D8)
1963 Oct 11, Edith Piaf (b.1915),
French singer (No, I don't regret anything), died of cancer. In 2007
the biopic film “La Vie en Rose,” with Marion Cotillard as Piaf, was
produced.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dith_Piaf)
1963 Oct 12, Archaeological digs
began at Masada, Israel.
(MC, 10/12/01)
1963 Oct 13, "Beatlemania" was
coined after Beatles appeared at Palladium.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1963 Oct 15, Stanley Milgram of
Yale Univ. published his groundbreaking article “Behavioral Study of
Obedience.” in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. His experiments,
begun in 1960, created a paradigm for considering how cruel people can
be when they are obeying orders.
(SSFC, 7/4/04, p.M6)(SAM, 10/08, p,24)
1963 Oct 19, Beatles recorded "I
Want to Hold Your Hand."
(MC, 10/19/01)
1963 Oct 20, Cleveland’s Jim Brown
surpassed the NFL single-season career rushing record of 8,378 yards
set by Joe Perry in 1958. By game’s end Brown had 8,390 yards.
(www.profootballhof.com/history/general/rushers/index.jsp)
1963 Oct 20, Alec Douglas-Home
formed a British government.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1963 Oct 22, Brian Boitano, figure
skater (Olympic-gold-1988), was born in Mountain View, Calif.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1963 Oct 22, 225,000 students
boycotted Chicago schools in a Freedom Day protest.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1963 Oct 23, Neil Simon's
"Barefoot in the Park," premiered in NYC. [see Oct 24]
(MC, 10/23/01)
1963 Oct 24, "Barefoot in the
Park" by Neil Simon opened on Broadway. [see Oct 23]
(SFEC, 9/29/96, BR p.5)
1963 Oct 25, Anti-Kennedy "WANTED
FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas.
(MC, 10/25/01)
1963 Oct 28, In NYC the demolition
of Penn Station, completed in 1910, began.
(www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON004.htm)(WSJ,
1/12/07, p.W8)
1963 Oct 31, J. Edgar Hoover's
last meeting with President John F Kennedy.
(MC, 10/31/01)
1963 Oct 31, Leaking propane gas
exploded and killed 64 at "Holiday on Ice" in Indiana.
(MC, 10/31/01)
1963 Oct, Pres. Kennedy spoke with
Mayor Daley of Chicago to get congressman Roland Libonati to vote the
Party line. The conversation was recorded.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.43)
1963 Nov 1-1963 Nov 2, South
Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother were assassinated in
a military coup. Coup leader Duong Van Minh explained that "They had to
be killed… Pres. Diem was too much respected among simple, gullible
people in the countryside." A 3rd brother was later tricked into
surrendering to US forces and was turned over to coup leaders and
killed by firing squad. Col. Nguyen Van Thieu helped organize the coup
that killed Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem.
(AP, 11/2/97)(SFEM, 4/11/99, p.42)(SFEC, 4/23/00,
p.A19)(SFC, 10/1/01, p.B2)
1963 Nov 5, Tatum O'Neal, Mrs.
John McEnroe, (Paper Moon, Little Darlings), was born in LA, Cal.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1963 Nov 7, The film "It’s a Mad,
Mad, Mad, Mad World" premiered at Hollywood’s new Cinerama Theatre in a
lengthy 195 minute version.
(WSJ, 2/13/02, p.A1)
1963 Nov 9, Twin disasters struck
Japan as some 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion, and 160
people died in a train crash.
(AP, 11/9/97)
1963 Nov 12, James P. Hosty Jr.,
FBI agent, had been tracking Lee Harvey Oswald for counterintelligence
purposes and had visited Oswald’s wife to establish Oswald’s
location On this day Hosty received a note from Oswald to leave
Marina Oswald alone. In 1996 Hosty wrote: Assignment: Oswald, a memoir
of his FBI role tracking Oswald.
(SFC, 6/3/96, BR p.5)
1963 Nov 14, Greece freed hundreds
who were jailed in the Communist uprising of 1944- 1950.
(HN, 11/14/98)
1963 Nov 14, Iceland got a new
island when a volcano pushed its way up out of the sea five miles off
the southern coast.
(HN, 11/14/00)
1963 Nov 15, Fritz Reiner (74),
Hungarian-US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch), died.
(MC, 11/15/01)
1963 Nov 15, Argentina voided all
foreign oil contracts.
(HN, 11/15/98)
1963 Nov 16, Touch-tone telephone
was introduced.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1963 Nov 20, A Senate
investigating committee held hearings on the growing TFX scandal where
General Dynamics had received a $7 billion contract in 1962.
(SFC, 11/18/96, p.B7)
1963 Nov 21, President Kennedy and
his wife, Jacqueline, began a two-day tour of Texas.
(AP, 11/22/03)
1963 Nov 21, Robert Stroud, "bird
man of Alcatraz", died at the federal prison in Springfield, Mo. His
canary studies were done at Leavenworth, Kansas, and included the book
"Stroud’s Digest of Diseases of Birds." He also worked on a critical
history of the US prison system (Looking Outward).
(AHHT, 10/02, p.22)(SSFC, 9/22/02,
p.A8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdman_of_Alcatraz)
1963 Nov 21, Roman Catholic
Vatican Council authorized the use of vernacular instead of Latin in
the Sacraments.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1963 Nov 21, India launched its
first rocket from Thumba in Kerala state.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumba_Equatorial_Rocket_Launching_Station)
1963 Nov 22, A Senate committee
heard testimony about an alleged $100,000 cash payoff to Vice-President
Johnson in connection with the General Dynamics TFX contract. After the
assassination of JFK there was no follow up.
(SFC, 11/18/96, p.B7)
1963 Nov 22, John F. Kennedy, the
35th president of the United States, had been in office two years, 10
months and two days, when an assassin's bullet ended his life in
Dallas, Texas. Kennedy, on a pre-campaign trip to supposedly hostile
Texas, had been greeted warmly by enthusiastic crowds at every stop.
Upon their arrival in Dallas, President and Mrs. Kennedy, accompanied
by Texas Governor John Connolly and his wife, were driven slowly
through the downtown streets on their way to a scheduled speech at the
Dallas Trade Mart. At 12:30 p.m., as the open limousine traveled
through Dealey Plaza past the Texas School Book Depository, Kennedy was
shot. Within the hour, Kennedy was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital
and by 2 p.m., Dallas police had arrested Lee Harvey Oswald as the
suspected assassin. At 2:38 p.m. Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was
sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
(HNPD, 11/22/98)
1963 Nov 22, John F. Kennedy was
assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade in
Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was seriously wounded. Oswald was
in turn shot in front of TV cameras by Jack Ruby. Rufus Youngblood
(1924-1996), a Secret Service agent, shielded VP Johnson from possible
gunshots with his body. Johnson rewarded him by promoting him over time
to the No. 2 position in the Secret Service. Ruby used a .38 Colt Cobra
purchased at Ray’s Hardware and Sporting Goods in Dallas run by
Lawrence Brantley (1921-1996). From the address that President Kennedy
never got to deliver in Dallas: "If we are strong, our strength will
speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help."
(TMC, 1994, p.1963)(AHD, p. 931)(SFC, 10/4/96,
p.B2)(SFC, 10/17/96, C2) (AP, 11/22/97)
1963 Nov 22, Two amateur films
recorded the assassination of Pres. Kennedy. A 24 ½ sec. video
by Orville Nix Sr. and Abraham Zapruder, a dress manufacturer, captured
the assassination on video tape. In 1981 David Lifton published "Best
Evidence," on the medical evidence of the assassination. In 1993 Gerald
Posner published "Case Closed," a book on the Warren Commission report.
In 1998 new testimony was released that a 2nd set of pictures was taken
at the autopsy that were never made public. In 2007 David Talbot
authored “Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years.” In 2007
Vincent Bugliosi authored “Reclaiming History: The Assassination of
President John F. Kennedy.”
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A5)(SFC, 10/25/98, p.D5)(SFC,
11/23/00, p.A11)(SSFC, 5/13/07, p.M1)(WSJ, 5/19/07, p.P8)
1963 Nov 22, Dr. Charles Andrew
Crenshaw, a 3rd year surgical intern at Dallas’ Parkland Memorial,
tended Kennedy and placed him into a coffin. In 1992 Crenshaw (d.2001)
authored "JFK: Conspiracy of Silence" and insisted that Kennedy had 4
gunshot wounds, including one from the front and that the neck wound
had been tampered to look like an exit wound.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A25)
1963 Nov 22, Dallas police officer
J.D. Tippit was slain by Oswald 45 minutes after Kennedy was shot when
he called Oswald over for questioning.
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A5)(SFC, 10/25/98, p.D5)
1963 Nov 22, New Orleans mob boss
Carlos Marcello was acquitted. He was prosecuted by Bobby Kennedy and
Bobby later said that Marcello was behind the murder of JFK.
(SFEC, 6/7/98, Par. p.8)
1963 Nov 22, Aldous L. Huxley
(69), English author (Devils of Loudon, Brave New World), died in Los
Angeles.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ahuxley.htm)
1963 Nov 22, C.S. Lewis, English
author the Narnia series and other books, died of osteoporosis. In 2005
Alan Jacobs authored “The Narnian,” a biography of Lewis.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cslewis.htm)(WSJ, 10/15/05,
p.P13)
1963 Nov 23, President Johnson
proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning as JFK's body lay in
repose in East Room of White House.
(AP, 11/23/01)
1963 Nov 23, Sixty-three elderly
people, most of them sleeping, were killed by a fire destroying the
one-story Golden Age Nursing Home near Fitchville, Ohio.
(AP, 11/23/02)
1963 Nov 23, "Doctor Who," the
long-running British sci-fi series, debuted in England.
(MC, 11/23/01)
1963 Nov 24, Jack Ruby shot and
mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President
Kennedy in front of TV cameras in the garage of the Dallas Police
Department. Ruby used a .38 Colt Cobra purchased at Ray’s Hardware and
Sporting Goods in Dallas run by Lawrence Brantley (1921-1996). Sometime
earlier Oswald had made an attempt to murder right-wing Gen’l. Edwin A.
Walker. In 2002 Thomas Mallon authored "Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the
Murder of John F. Kennedy."
(SFC, 10/17/96, C2)(AP, 11/24/97)(HN, 11/24/00)(WSJ,
1/18/02, p.W8)
1963 Nov 25, Assassinated
President John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. A
bronze casket that was used to transport JFK to Washington was flown
off the Maryland-Delaware coast and dropped into a 9,000 feet deep
military dump site.
(AP, 11/25/97)(HN, 11/25/98)(SFC, 5/31/99, p.A3)
1963 Nov 28, In The Flintstones
episode titled "KLEPTOMANIAC PEBBLES", Pebbles' tendency to take
anything that isn't nailed down is exploited by jewel thief Baffles
Gravel.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1963 Nov 28, R.C., "She Loves You"
by the Beatles returned to #1 on the U.K. pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1963 Nov 28, The first million
copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1963 Nov 28, Linda Darnell
divorced Merle Robertson.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1963 Nov 28, The Crusher beat
Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1963 Nov 28, Just six days after
the assassination of President Kennedy, President Johnson announces
that the Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, will be renamed "The
John F. Kennedy Space Center." Residents voted in 1973 to change the
name back to Cape Canaveral.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)(HN, 11/28/98)
1963 Nov 29, President Lyndon B.
Johnson appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to
investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
(AP, 11/29/97)(HN, 11/29/98)
1963 Nov, Pres. Kennedy approved a
probe to see whether relations with Fidel Castro could be improved. In
1999 Mark J. White edited "The Kennedy's and Cuba: The Declassified
Documentary History."
(WSJ, 11/15/99, p.A48)
1963 Dec 2, Sabu Sabu (39), actor
(Sabu Dastagir), died of a heart attack in Chatsworth, California. He
was born in Karapur, Mysore, India, on January 27, 1924, beginning his
movie career at the age of 13. His films included “Elephant Boy”
(1937); “Drums” (1938); “The Thief of Baghdad” (1940); “Jungle
Book” (1942) and “Arabian Nights” (1942).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0754942/)
1963 Dec 7,
During the Army-Navy game, videotaped instant replay was used for the
first time in a live sports telecast as CBS re-showed a one-yard
touchdown run by Army quarterback Rollie Stichweh. Navy beat Army,
21-15.
(AP, 12/7/03)
1963 Dec 8, Three fuel tanks
exploded when a jetliner, struck by lightning, crashed near Elkton,
Maryland. 81 people died. This was the only case of a lightning caused
crash.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1963 Dec 9, Frank Sinatra Jr. was
kidnapped. Frank Sinatra Sr. ransomed his kidnapped son, Frank Sinatra
Jr., for $240,000. Barry Keenan, who set up the kidnapping, was a
classmate of Nancy Sinatra. He served 4 1/2 years in prison and went on
to become a successful real estate developer.
(SFC, 9/7/98, p.B6)(MC, 12/9/01)
1963 Dec 10, Walter Cronkite
re-aired a CBS News report from London on the Beatles. It had been 1st
filed on Nov 22, the day JFK was assassinated.
(SSFC, 2/8/04, Par p.18)
1963 Dec 12, Frank Sinatra Jr.
returned after being kidnapped.
(MC, 12/12/01)
1963 Dec 12, Kenya gained
independence from Britain and the Kenyan African National Union Party
(KANU) began ruling. Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu, was the first president
and served until 1978. The Kikuyu and closely related Meru and Embu
groups comprised some 28% of Kenya’s people. Kenya’s population at this
time was under 8 million.
(SFC, 10/17/96, A8)(SFC, 7/1/97,
p.A9)(AP,12/12/97)(SFC,12/23/97, p.D4)(SFC, 8/8/98, p.A12)(Econ,
2/28/09, p.87)(Econ, 3/14/09, p.49)
1963 Dec 13, Capital records
signed a right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1963 Dec 14, The Baldwin Hills dam
in Los Angeles, Ca., broke. The released water destroyed 65 homes and
left 5 people dead.
(http://damsafety.water.ca.gov/about.htm)
1963 Dec 14, Dinah Washington
(b.1924), known in the 50s as "Queen of the Harlem Blues," died of
barbiturate poisoning in Detroit. In 2004 Nadine Cohodas authored
“Queen: The Life and Times of Dinah Washington.”
(SSFC, 8/22/04, p.M1)
1963 Dec 20, The Berlin Wall was
opened for the first time to West Berliners, who were allowed one-day
visits to relatives in the Eastern sector for the holidays. Four
thousand crossed the great wall of Berlin to visit relatives under a 17
day Christmas accord.
(AP, 12/20/98)(HN, 12/20/98)
1963 Dec 20, The trial of 21 camp
guards from Auschwitz began.
(MC, 12/20/01)
1963 Dec 21, The Turk minority
rioted in Cyprus to protest anti-Turkish revisions in the constitution.
(HN, 12/21/98)
1963 Dec 22, The official 30 days
of mourning ended following the assassination of President Kennedy.
(AP, 12/22/99)
1963 Dec 24, New York’s Idlewild
Airport was renamed JFK Airport in honor of the murdered President
Kennedy.
(HN, 12/24/98)
1963 Dec 24, Greeks and Turks
rioted in Cyprus.
(MC, 12/24/01)
1963 Dec 26, Beatles released "I
Want To Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There."
(MC, 12/26/01)
1963 Dec 26, "Gorgeous George"
Wagner, perfumed and pampered wrestler, died.
(MC, 12/26/01)
1963 Dec 28, Abbott Joseph
Liebling (b.1904), American journalist and writer, died. “Freedom of
the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” In 1980 Raymond
Sokolov authored the biography “Wayward Reporter.”
(www.jewishsports.net/BioPages/AbbottJoseph.htm)(SSFC, 11/21/04, p.E3)
1963 Dec 28, Paul Hindemith
(b.1895), German composer (Composer's World) and violist, died. His
work included "Cardillac."
(WUD, 1994, p.672)(WSJ, 8/20/96, p.A8)(MC, 12/28/01)
1963 Dec 30, Alessandra Mussolini,
actress (Ferragosto OK), was born in Naples, Italy.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1963 Dec 30, Congress authorized
the Kennedy half dollar.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1963 Dec, US Cpl. Jerry W. Parrish
(19) deserted to North Korea and later died there of natural causes.
(SFC, 8/16/04, p.A5)
1963 Konrad Fischer (1939-1996)
founded the Capital Realism art movement in Germany. It was a
figurative painting style that was a response to American Pop Art.
(SFC, 11/27/96, p.B2)
1963 Lucien Freud painted "Man’s
Head (Self-Portrait III)."
(SFEC, 12/1/96, BR p.1)
1963 Pan Tianshou, a
traditional-style Chinese painter, created "Red Lotus."
(WSJ, 2/19/98, p.A20)
1963 Andy Warhol created his image
"Large Triple Elvis."
(NH, 6/01, p.48)
1963 Hannah Arendt authored
"Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil."
(WSJ, 8/31/99, p.A22)
1963 Harold Barnett and Chandler
Morse wrote "Scarcity and Growth." They documented price declines
through history to indicate an increased availability of natural
resources rather than a growing scarcity.
(WSJ, 4/22/97, p.A22)
1963 Nora Beloff (1919-1997),
British political writer and foreign correspondent, wrote "The General
Says No: Britain’s Exclusion from Europe."
(SFC, 2/24/96, p.A17)
1963 Alton L. Blakeslee (d.1997 at
83) wrote "Your Heart has Nine Lives" with Dr. Jeremiah B. Stamler. He
was the chief science writer for the Associated Press (AP) for 3
decades.
(SFC, 5/14/97, p.A22)
1963 John Campbell Bruce
(1906-1996) wrote "Escape From Alcatraz". It was based on a true 1962
escape. The book was turned into a film in 1979.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.20)
1963 Donald Davidson (d.2003 at
86), Prof. of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, authored "Actions, Reasons and
Causes."
(SFC, 9/4/03, p.A23)
1963 John Fowles (1926-2005),
English novelist, authored "The Collector."
(Econ, 11/1/03, p.82)(SFC, 11/8/05, p.B5)
1963 The "Feminine Mystique" by
Betty Friedan (1921-2006) was published.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A21)(SSFC, 2/5/06, p.A6)
1963 Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
and Anna Jacobson Schwartz authored “A Monetary History of the United
States, 1867-1960.” They argued that the US depression of the 1930s was
the result of an inept Federal Reserve.
(WSJ, 12/7/05, p.A15)(Econ, 11/25/06, p.80)
1963 Richard Jennings, Prof. at UC
Boalt School of Law, co-authored with Harold Marsh Jr. "Securities
Regulation - Cases & Materials," the 1st casebook on securities
regulation.
(SFEM, 8/22/99, p.A22)
1963 Prof. Peter Kennedy
(1923-2006) co-wrote the textbook “Pathology of Domestic Animals.”
(SFC, 8/10/06, p.B7)
1963 Dr. Ivo John Lederer (d.1998
at 68) authored "Yugoslavia at the Peace Conference." He was the
founder and director of the Center for Russian and East European
Studies at Stanford Univ.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.D4)
1963 Abraham Maslow, a pioneer of
humanistic psychology, wrote "Eupsychian Management, A Journal." It
described the management style he witnessed at Non-Linear Systems. He
labeled it "enlightened management" to describe work conditions that
incorporated synergy and led to individual "self-actualization."
(WSJ, 4/25/97, p.B1)(WSJ, 10/10/97, p.B1)
1963 Ernst Mayr wrote "Animal
Species and Evolution."
(NH, 2/97, p.69)
1963 Mary McCarthy authored her
novel “The Group.” It followed a group of Vassar graduates from 1933 to
the start of WWII.
(WSJ, 4/19/08, p.W8)
1963 William McPhee authored
“Formal Theories of Mass Behaviour.”
(Econ, 11/28/09, p.80)
1963 James Michener (d.1997 at 90)
wrote his novel "Caravans," the fruit of wide-ranging trips to
Afghanistan in the mid-1950s.
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)(WSJ, 7/5/08, p.W8)
1963 "The American Way of Death"
by Jessica Mitford (d.7/24/96) was published. It was an expose of the
funeral industry in the US. A revised edition was published in 1998.
(SFC, 6/30/96, Zone 1 p.3)(SFEC, 8/16/98, BR p.1)
1963 Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
later senator and ambassador, authored "Beyond the Melting Pot," a
description of the ethnic groups in NYC.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A2)
1963 Sir Lawrence van der Post
(1906-1996) wrote "The Seed and the Sower." It was filmed in 1983 as
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence with David Bowie.
(SFC, 12/17/96, p.B4)
1963 Dawn Powell published the
novel "The Golden Spur."
(SFEC, 2/14/99, BR p.5)
1963 Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.,
former head of General Motors Corp., authored "My Life With General
Motors."
(F, 10/7/96, p.132)(Econ, 12/22/07, p.123)
1963 Ezra Solomon (d.2002 at 82),
Stanford economics professor, authored "The Theory of Financial
Management."
(SFC, 12/21/02, p.A22)
1963 Jim Thompson authored his
novel "The Grifters." It was made into a film in 1990.
(WSJ, 8/27/01, p.A13)
1963 Charles Webb authored his
novel "The Graduate." It was turned into a movie in 1967.
(WSJ, 5/8/01, p.B1)
1963 The musical show "110 in the
Shade" was based on the Richard Nash play "the Rainmaker."
(USAT, 11/12/99, p.1E)
1963 The George Balanchine
choreographed the ballet "Bugaku."
(WSJ, 10/21/99, p.A20)
1963 Flemming Flindt created a
dance work titled "The Lesson" based on a 1951 work by Eugene Ionesco.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.E-1)
1963 William Prince (1913-1996)
played the lead role in Edward Albee’s play: "The Ballad of the Sad
Cafe."
(SFC, 10/11/96, p.A24)
1963 Julia Child made her TV debut
as "The French Chef" on Boston's WGBH-TV. PBS picked up the show a year
later.
(SFEM, 8/10/97, p.23)
1963 The TV series “Captain Amos
Burke,” later renamed “Amos Burke: Secret Agent,” featured Gene
Barry (1919-2009). The show continued to 1966.
(SFC, 12/15/09, p.C5)
1963 The TV show The Saint
featured Jackie Collins.
(SSFC, 8/4/02, Par p.14)
1963 Virginia Graham (d.1998) led
the "Girl Talk" TV talk show until 1969.
(SFC, 12/25/98, p.B6)
1963 Keith Andes (1920-2005)
played the role of an amazing sleuth on the TV sitcom “Glynis.” Glynis
Johns played his wife.
(SFC, 11/29/05, p.B7)
1963 The TV costume game show
"Let's Make a Deal" premiered and ran for 16 years in daytime and 10
years in prime time. It was hosted by Monty Hall and co-created by
Stefan Hatos (d.1999 at 78).
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A22)
1963 The TV show "My Favorite
Martian" starred Bill Bixby and Ray Walston (d.2000 at 86). The show
ran to 1966.
(SFC, 1/3/01, p.A17)
1963 George Fenneman (1919-1997)
began to host the TV show "Your Funny, Funny Films" on ABC. It was a
forerunner to "America’s Funniest Videos."
(SFC, 6/5/97, p.A26)
1963 The first edition album
"Introducing the Beatles" was produced and sold for $9,600 in 1997.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.D5)
1963 Sandy Bull (d.2001 at 60)
released his 1st album "Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo." It became an
underground classic.
(SFC, 4/13/01, p.D6)
1963 Johnny Cash recorded his hit
tune: "Ring of Fire."
(SFC, 9/13/03, p.A12)
1963 Keith Colley made a hit with
"Enamorado."
(SFC, 11/30/02, p.D1)
1963 Gunship pilot James P. 'Bull'
Durham (1927-2004), balladeer of the Vietnam War, recorded 10 songs
about SAC in the Vietnam era. In 1971 he recorded 12 songs collected
during his Vietnam tour of duty.
(www.historynet.com/james-p-bull-durham-true-balladeer-of-the-vietnam-war.htm)
1963 The Crystals made a hit with
their songs “Da Doo Ron Ron” and “Then He Kissed Me” written by Ellie
Greenwich (1940-2009) in collaboration with producer Phil Spector and
her husband Jeff Barry.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_He_Kissed_Me)
1963 Koerner, Ray & Glover
released their landmark album: "Blues, Rags and Hollers." Dave "Snaker"
Ray, guitarist, died in 2002.
(SFC, 11/30/02, p.A23)
1963 Bob Merrill wrote the hit
song "People."
(WSJ, 2/2/00, p.W8)
1963 "Deep Purple" by Nino Temple
& April Stevens won the Grammy best rock-n-roll recording.
(SFEC, 2/21/99, DB p.38)
1963 The Kingston Trio made a hit
with "Greenback Dollar" written by Hoyt Axton (d.1999 at age 61).
(SFC, 10/27/99, p.C4)
1963 John Corigliano composed his
4-movement Violin Sonata.
(SFC, 11/18/98, p.E3)
1963 Bob Dylan’s 2nd album, "The
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan," was released. Four songs were removed for the
officially released version. Nat Hentoff wrote the liner notes.
(SFC, 7/16/97, p.E1)(WSJ, 12/29/04, p.D8)
1963 The Herbie Hancock song
"Watermelon Man" became a hit with a version by Mongo Santamaria
(d.2003).
(SFC, 2/5/03, p.A22)
1963 Bob Gibson (1932-1996)
co-wrote "Abilene" with J.D. Laudermilk, Lester Brown and Albert
Stanton.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A21)
1963 The Kingsmen recorded their
hit song "Louie, Louie." It became a major hit in 1964. It was written
in 1955 by Richard Berry and recorded by Berry with the Pharaohs in
1957. The Kingsmen sold their rights in 1968 for a percentage of future
licensing fees. The fees were not paid and the band filed suit in 1993.
They won a 1995 judgement and a 1998 appeal.
(SFC, 1/25/97, p.A19)(SFC, 4/11/98, p.C5)
1963 Sonny Bono, songwriter, met
Cherilyn (Cher) Sarkasian La Piere, singer, at a Hollywood coffee shop.
The pair went on to record "I Got You Babe," The Beat Goes On," and
"All I Ever Need Is You." Bono wrote the Jackie DeShannon hit of this
year "Needles and Pins."
(SFC, 1/6/98, p.A11)
1963 Marvin Gaye sang "Hitch Hike."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1963 Al Hirt (1922-1999), New
Orleans trumpet player, made a hit with his instrumental "Java." He won
a 1964 Grammy best nonjazz instrumental for the tune.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.C4)
1963 Clement Dodd opened his
record studio at 13 Brentford Road, Kingston, Jamaica, and soon began
recording Bob Marley and the Wailers.
(Econ, 5/22/04, p.80)
1963 Martha and the Vandellas sang
"Heat Wave."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1963 Curtis Mayfield (b.1942) and
the Impressions had a hit with the song "It's All Right."
(SFC, 12/28/99, p.C1)
1963 Roy Nichols (d.2001 at 68)
joined Merle Haggard’s band the Strangers. He helped create the
Bakersfield sound.
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.D2)
1963 Jack Nitzsche (d.2000) made
his solo recording "The Lonely Surfer." He went on to compose over 30
film scores.
(SFEC, 9/10/00, p.49)
1963 The Ronettes singing trio
made a hit with "Be My Baby," written by Ellie Greenwich (1940-2009) in
collaboration with producer Phil Spector and her husband Jeff Barry. It
epitomized the famed "wall of sound" technique of its producer, Phil
Spector.
(AP,
2/13/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Greenwich)
1963 Ruby and the Romantics had a
hit with “Our Day Will Come,” co-written by Mort Garson (1924-2008) and
Bob Hilliard.
(SFC, 1/16/08, p.B9)
1963 The Singing Nun made a hit
with "Dominique." The song praised the 13th century crusade against the
Cathars. It was written by Noel Regney. His 1962 poem "Do You Hear What
I Hear" was recorded by Bing Crosby.
(SSFC, 6/17/01, p.T10)(SFC, 11/28/02, p.A30)
1963 Dusty Springfield recorded "I
Only Want to Be With You."
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.C6)
1963 Stevie Wonder sang
"Fingertips (Part 2)."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1963 Jazz saxophonist Joe
Henderson began recording for Blue Note.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, DB p.32)
1963 Miles Davis heard Tony
Williams playing drums with saxophonist Jackie McLean and hired him.
Williams stayed with Davis until 1969. Their recording included
"E.S.P.," "Nefertiti and "Filles de Kilamanjaro."
(SFC, 2/25/97, p.B2)
1963 Frank Zappa wrote his rock
opera "I Was a Teenage Maltshop."
(SSFC, 3/17/02, p.M3)
1963 David M. Solinger
(1906-1996), the first non-Whitney president of the Whitney Museum, led
a drive as a trustee to construct the granite building on the Upper
East Side of NY by Marcel Breuer. In 1966 he succeeded Flora Whitney
Miller as president.
(SFC, 10/31/96, p.C2)
1963 L.M. Boyd began a column of
odds and ends for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It was picked up by
the SF Chronicle in 1968 and called "The Grab Bag." Boyd retired at the
end of 2000 after 40 years of writing.
(SFC, 12/30/00, p.D3)
1963 The 59-story Pan Am building
on Park Ave. was completed. Walter Gropius was the principal designer.
In 2004 Meredith D. Clausen authored “The Pan Am Building.”
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A26)(WSJ, 12/9/04, p.D10)
1963 In NYC Frank Lloyd (d.1998 at
86) opened the Marlborough Gallery. He was involved in the 1970s Rothko
art scandal.
(SFC, 4/8/98, p.B2)
1963 Mildred and Ray Connett
(d.1997) opened the 90-acre Glen Eden Sun Club, a California nudist
resort.
(SFC, 4/21/97, p.A20)
1963 The Chinese Historical
Society of America opened in SF. It was the first of its kind in the
country.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.6)
1963 Harvey R. Ball (d.2001 at
79), advertising executive, created the yellow smiley face (happy face)
for the Massachusetts based State Mutual Life Assurance Company of
America. He was paid $45 for the artwork and never applied for a
trademark or copyright. In 2006 Darrin M. McMahon authored “Happiness:
A History.”
(SFC, 4/17/01, p.A20)(Econ, 1/14/06, p.82)
1963 San Francisco featured
topless waitresses.
(TMC, 1994, p.1963)
1963 Barbara Epstein (1928-2006),
Jason Epstein, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick founded the NY
Review of Books.
(Econ, 7/1/06, p.79)
1963 The Oral Roberts Univ. in
Tulsa, Okla., founded by Oral Roberts (1918-2009), was chartered.
(SFC, 12/15/09, p.C5)
1963 Albert Lippert (d.1998 at
72), a garment executive, first took a successful Weight Watchers diet
class with Jean Nidetch on Long Island. They expanded the program into
a company and sold public stock in 1968. In 1978 the operation was sold
to H.J. Heinz for $72 million. The program remained unchanged until
1997 when a point system replaced selections from food groups.
(WSJ, 6/12/97, p.B4)(SFC, 3/4/98, p.C4)
1963 Ikko Tanaka founded his Ikko
Tanaka Design Studio and began establishing himself as one of the most
successful graphic designers in the field.
(Hem, 4/96, p.8)
1963 Harriet Schaffer (d.1998 at
65), a pioneer in early childhood education, began her career at the
Tic Toc Nursery School in Richmond, Ca. Under her leadership Tic Toc
became a pilot school for the newly created federal Head Start program.
(SFC, 7/4/98, p.C2)
1963 Al Davis (33) took over as
head coach of the Oakland Raiders.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W39)(SFC, 1/22/03, p.A10)
1963 The North course for golf at
Kaanapali on Maui was designed by Robert Trent Jones.
(Hem, 4/96, p.42)
1963 Eugene Paul Wigner
(1902-1995), Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist, won the Nobel
Prize in Physics.
(HN, 11/17/00)(MC, 11/17/01)
1963 Giorgos Seferis (1900-1971),
Turkish-born Greek poet, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Seferis was
the pen name of Georgios Seferiades
(AP,
10/8/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgos_Seferis)
1963 Mobutu, chief of staff of the
army of Congo-Kinshasa [later Zaire], visited the US White House as a
guest of Pres. Kennedy.
(SFC, 9/8/97, p.A8)
1963 Federal troops were used to
force Alabama Gov. George Wallace to accept black students at the
state’s university. [see 1962]
(WSJ, 5/13/96, p.A-16)
1963 Richard Nixon selected
Leonard Garment, New York lawyer, as a special consultant. Garment
published his personal memoir in 1997 "Crazy Rhythm."
(WSJ, 2/28/97, p.A12)
1963 The US Congress passed the
Equal Pay Act that banned gender-based wage discrimination.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)
1963 The US Board of Geographic
Names banned the word "Nigger" from appearing on any federal map.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A20)
1963 The American CIA developed a
manual for counterintelligence interrogation for use in Vietnam.
(SFC, 1/28/97, p.A3)
1963 George Joannides, a CIA
agent, was in charge of the Revolutionary Students Directorate (DRE),
one of the most powerful Cuban anti-Castro organizations in Miami. A
few months before the assassination of JFK the DRE had significant
contacts with Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald tried to infiltrate the New
Orleans branch of the DRE.
(SSFC, 5/13/07, p.M5)
1963 Winston Scott served as
American CIA station chief in Mexico during the time that Lee Harvey
Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy there. In 2008 Jefferson Morley
authored “Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of
the CIA.” Morley proposed that Scott later covered up CIA operations
that involved Oswald.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKscottW.htm)(WSJ,
3/20/08, p.D7)
1963 In Florida two white gas
station attendants were murdered in Port St. Joe. Two black men were
convicted twice by all-white juries in the murders and spent nine years
on death row. Curtis "Boo" Adams, a white man, later admitted to the
murders. In 1998 Freddie Pitts (54) and Wilbert Lee (62) received
$500,000 each from the state for wrongful conviction.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A2)
1963 Madalyn Murray O’Hair, leader
of United Secularists of America (American Atheists), took credit for a
suit filed against the government that ultimately led to the removal of
the Bible and sponsored prayer from public schools. She and her family
disappeared in Aug, 1995 with more than $600,000 in funds from her
various organizations. Her diaries, some 2,000 pages, were scheduled to
be auctioned in 1999.
(SFEC, 3/3/97, p.A4)(SFC, 1/12/99, p.A4)(SFC,
5/27/99, p.A3)
1963 Stanley H. Durwood, founder
of AMC Entertainment, first split a Kansas City theater in half and
invented the multiplex cinema theater.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, DB, p.52)
1963 Chrysler became the majority
holder of Simca. By 1970 it changed the name to Chrysler France.
(www.allpar.com/model/simca.html)
1963 GM introduced the Malibu,
named after the California city, as a top line option on various 1964
Chevelles.
(WSJ, 4/1/09, p.A20)
1963 GM opened a 380-acre assembly
plant in Fremont, Ca., GM closed the plant in 1982.
(SSFC, 2/28/10, p.D1)
1963 Studebaker halted production
of cars in the US. 4,000 employees lost their company pensions. This
led to the passage of the Employment Retirement Income Security Act
(ERISA) in 1974.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(SFC, 2/14/02, p.B1)
1963 Ralph Roberts, former
marketer of Muzak and owner of a belts and suspenders company, acquired
a 1,200-subscriber, community antenna, television system (American
Cable Systems) in Tupelo, Miss. In 1969 it was incorporated in
Pennsylvania and renamed Comcast. The company went public in 1972
(SSFC, 2/15/04, p.I6)
1963 Edward Walker (d.2000) began
marketing his invention called the "Astro lamp." It later became known
as the lava lamp.
(SFEC, 8/20/00, p.B9)
1963 The Proctor & Gamble
Company purchased the SF based Folger Coffee. In 1994 P&G closed
the Folgers plant in South San Francisco, the brands last presence in
the Bay Area.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.D2)(SFC, 6/5/08, p.C2)
1963 Herb Sandler, a NY lawyer,
and Marion Sandler, a Wall Street analyst, bought the 2-branch World
Savings and Loan Association (later Golden West Financial corp.) of
Oakland, Ca., for $3.8 million. They sold the company in 2006 to
Wachovia for $24.2 billion.
(SFC, 5/9/06, p.C1)
1963 American Sugar Refining
Company changed its name to American Sugar Company.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)
1963 The Lestoil Co. of Holyoke,
Mass., began selling its liquid cleaner in special-edition reproduction
glass flasks, which resembled 19th century whiskey flasks. The special
edition ended in 1964.
(SFC, 5/28/08, p.G2)
1963 McDonald’s logo "Speedee" was
dropped in favor of Ronald McDonald. The company hit the 1 billion mark
in this year.
(SFC, 7/3/96, z-1 p.7)(WSJ, 11/13/98, p.B1)
1963 Alan Maxwell Pottasch
(1927-2007), adman for Pepsi-Cola Co., launched the “Pepsi Generation”
ad campaign.
(WSJ, 8/4/07, p.A4)
1963 Richard Trentlage, Indiana
songwriter, wrote the TV jingle “I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener,”
and had it sung by his kids.
(WSJ, 8/11/07, p.A6)
1963 The W.R. Grace company began
operating the Zonolite Mountain vermiculite mine and continued to 1990.
The vermiculite was naturally mixed geologically with asbestos. By 2009
at least 200 people died of asbestos related diseases and hundreds more
were sickened.
(SFC, 5/9/09, p.A6)
1963 J.L. Wade (1913-2007) built
his first purple martin bird houses in Griggsville, Illinois. In 1965
he authored “What You Should Know About the Purple Martin,” which
became a bestseller among ornithologists. Wade claimed that each bird
ate some 2,000 mosquitoes per day.
(WSJ, 6/23/07, p.A8)
1963 Quasars, Quasi-Stellar Radio
Sources, powerful astrophysical sources of light, were first
discovered. Maarten Schmidt first observed the object called 3C273 and
found that it was racing away from Earth at 30,000 miles per second.
Prof. Jesse Greenstein (d.2002 at 93) and Maarten Schmidt led quasar
research and began to realize that quasars were the most distant
objects in the universe.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.A9)(NH, 5/97, p.66)(PacDis, Summer
’97, p.32)(SFC, 10/26/02, p.A24)
1963 In California the 400-foot
high Cold Spring Canyon Bridge was built on Highway 154 to carry
travelers from San Marcos Pass into the Santa Ynez Valley. By 2009 at
least 48 deaths from suicide off the bridge were recorded.
(SFC, 7/24/09, p.D7)
1963 The first Renaissance
Pleasure Faire was held in southern California. In 1967 it expanded to
the SF Bay Area. By 2008 some 150 such events were held across the US.
(SFC, 7/22/98, p.D1)(Econ, 12/6/08, p.44)
1963 Hyron Spinrad of UC Berkeley
and others found only a trace of water vapor in the thin atmosphere of
Mars and confirmed that liquid water on its cold surface was almost
impossible.
(SFC, 11/29/96, p.A17)
1963 The Humboldt Bay nuclear
power plant began generating power for consumers in Northern
California. It was shut down in 1976.
(SFC, 10/28/99, p.C4)(SFC, 7/17/04, p.B2)
1963 Protons and neutrons were
given structure; quark theory was proposed. Murray Gell-Mann at Caltech
and George Zweig at CERN proposed small building blocks for particles
and call them quarks and aces. Gell-Mann took the quark name from a
James Joyce phrase in Finnegan's Wake: "three quarks for muster Mark."
(NG, May 1985, p. 645)(SFC, 4/11/02, p.A2)
1963 George Grover (1915-1996),
nuclear physicist, solved a heat-transfer problem by developing the
first working heat pipe.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, p.C12)
1963 Ray Dolby, while working in
India, conceived of separating recorded sound into 2 channels as a
means to strip away unwanted tape recording noise. His 1st prototype
was completed in London in 1966.
(SFC, 3/29/04, p.D1)
1963 A vaccine for measles became
available. In the previous decade some 450,000 cases were reported in
the US with about 450 deaths per year.
(SFC, 12/22/06, p.A18)
1963 At the Mayo Clinic the kidney
transplant program began and the artificial kidney center opened.
(SFC, 7/5/96, PM, p.5)
1963 Dr. Michael DeBakey came out
with his interthoracic pump, a device to pump blood in lieu of the
heart. De Bakey made history this year by installing an artificial pump
to assist a patient's damaged heart.
(SFEC, 11/24/96, Z1
p.2)(www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/coo0pro-1)
1963 The Fogarty Embolectomy
Catheter, invented by Dr. Tom Fogarty to remove clots in arteries, was
first used successfully.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A17)
1963 Drs. Vincent J. Freda (d.2003
at 75) and John G. Gorman of Columbia Univ. discovered that if an
Rh-negative woman was given an injection of a vaccine called Rhogam,
her body would not attack her fetus' blood cells. Up to this time the
15% of women in birth with Rh-negative blood and a Rh-positive father
faced the potentially fatal hemolytic disease.
(SSFC, 5/18/03, p.A29)
1963 The first liver transplant
was performed by a surgical team led by Dr. Thomas Starzl of Denver,
Colorado.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_transplantation)
1963 Profs. Emmett Leith and Juris
Upatnieks, engineers at the Univ. of Michigan, created the 1st working
hologram. Pieter van Heerden of Polaroid Research Labs pioneered the
holographic principle.
(MT, Summer/04, p.8)(Econ, 6/9/07, TQ p.28)
1963 W.D. Hamilton (d.2000 at 63)
published his theory of "inclusive fitness" in the Journal of
Theoretical Biology. A 2nd paper followed in 1964. He set out to
explain the evolutionary basis of altruism and the apparent
contradiction between survival of the fittest and behavior that
benefits kin.
(SFC, 3/10/00, p.D8)
1963 Laetrile, a purported
anti-cancer drug, was temporarily banned. It was invented by Ernst T.
Krebs (1877-1970) from a derivative of amygdalin, an extract of apricot
pits.
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.A26)
1963 US Country music singer Patsy
Cline (Kline) died in a plane crash.
(WSJ, 8/29/96, p.B1)(Hem., 4/97, p.69)
1963 Charles T. Fisher (1880-1963)
died. He and his brother Frederic J. Fisher (1878-1941) established the
Fisher Body Co. in 1908. They sold their operations to GM in 1926.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1963 Robert Lee Frost (b.1874),
poet, died at age 88.
(MT, Win. ‘96, p.5)(WUD, 1994, p.571)
1963 Aldous Huxley (b.1894),
English author, died. His books included "Brave New World." In 2001
Ivan R. Dee published "Aldous Huxley: Complete Essays: Volume IV,
1936-1938."
(AP, 7/13/97)(AP, 7/26/98)
1963 David Low (72), British
political cartoonist, died.
(WSJ, 5/29/02, p.D7)
1963 Pu Ru, master Chinese
calligraphy artist, died in the US.
(WSJ, 12/7/00, p.A24)
1963 Martin Ramirez (b.1895),
institutionalized Mexican-born artist, died in DeWitt State Hospital in
Auburn, Ca. He had been institutionalized since 1931 after being
diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia. His last 15 years were spent at
DeWitt, where much of his art was created.
(SFC, 7/14/07, p.E10)(Econ, 11/8/08, p.104)
1963 Theodore Roethke, poet, died
at age 55. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for "The Waking," a
collection of 3 earlier books.
(MT, Summer 01, p.2)
1963 Alfred Sessler (b.1909), WPA
artist, died.
(WSJ, 3/27/00, p.A20)
1963 In Austria a Vienna
Convention produced a treaty that protected the right of individuals
jailed in a foreign land to contact their national consulate.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.A3)
1963 In Czechoslovakia Vaclav
Havel, future president, had his first play staged: "The Garden Party."
(SFC, 1/6/97, p.B1)
1963 The British sci-fi TV series
Dr. Who began. It reach the US in 1978. It featured a space traveling
Doctor who was hundreds of years old from the planet Gellifrey. He used
a London police call box as the external form of his space vessel. The
interior was spacious with comfortable Edwardian touches.
(SFC, 5/14/96, E-1)
1963 Britain relaxed laws on
betting. Gambling as a result moved off tracks to betting shops. By
2006 attendance at dog races fell to some 3.6 million from a high of 38
million in 1936.
(Econ, 3/29/08, p.74)
1963 Juan Bosch (1909-2001) was
toppled in the Dominican Republic by the army shortly after being
elected. His plans for land reform would have split up sugar
plantations owned by generals.
(SFC, 5/17/96, p.A-14)(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D6)
1963 Carlos Julio Arosemena,
president of Ecuador, was deposed in a military coup.
(AP, 3/5/04)
1963 Eritrea began a war for
independence against Ethiopia.
(WSJ, 3/4/97, p.A14)
1963 The EU signed a trade deal in
Yaounde, Cameroon, to keep markets open to former European colonies in
Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific Islands (ACP).
(Econ, 5/28/05, p.78)
1963 France erected giant concrete
buildings to house a growing working class and North African
immigrants. These included the “Cite des 4,000” in the Paris suburb of
La Courneuve.
(WSJ, 11/14/05, p.A1)
1963 A glorified food blender was
a product of the French restaurant supply giant Robot-Coupe. In 1973
Carl Sontheimer (d.1998 at 83) introduced his redesigned Cuisinart at a
show in Chicago.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.B4)
1963 French retailer Carrefour SA
invented hypermarkets, huge emporiums that combined the wares of
supermarkets and department stores.
(WSJ, 11/30/06, p.A1)
1963 French residents of Monaco
became liable for French taxes.
(Econ, 12/24/05, p.85)
1963 The paleolithic site of
Lascaux, by the village of Montignac, France, was closed to the public
by Andre Malraux, minister of cultural affairs, due to environmental
damage caused by large numbers of tourists.
(NG, Oct. 1988, p.489)
1963 Ludwig Erhard, head of the
Christian Democratic Union, replaced Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor and
served to 1966.
(AP, 11/21/05)
1963 In Greece Andreas Papandreou
became a government minister under his father George, a centrist
premier.
(SFC, 6/23/96, p.B6)
1963 In Honduras Col. Oswaldo
Lopez Arellano (1921-2010), with the backing of the military, ousted
civilian President Ramon Villeda Morales.
(SFC, 8/9/99, p.A8)(AP, 5/17/10)
1963 India’s huge Bhakra dam was
built in Himachal Pradesh. It brought 7 million hectares of northwest
India under irrigation.
(Econ, 9/12/09, p.28)
1963 Ray Dolby, while working in
India, conceived of separating recorded sound into 2 channels as a
means to strip away unwanted tape recording noise. His 1st prototype
was completed in London in 1966.
(SFC, 3/29/04, p.D1)
1963 India’s space program began
in Trivandrum, Kerala, in this year. The Vikram Sarabhai Space Center
in Trivandrum was named for the father of Indian rocketry.
(NG, 5/88, p.598)
1963 In Indonesia a new
anti-subversion law was instituted with penalties of death or 20 years
in prison.
(WSJ, 3/6/97, p.A14)
1963 Indonesia passed “Law number
4” to sanction fierce censorship. It was lifted for the press in 1999.
(Econ, 1/23/10, p.43)
1963 Sovereignty over West Papua
was transferred from the Netherlands to Indonesia. A UN approved
referendum, involving some 1,000 handpicked pro-Jakarta Papuans,
ratified the annexation in 1969.
(WSJ, 6/6/00, p.A23)
1963 The western part of the
island of New Guinea, Irian Jaya, became a province of Indonesia. It
was formerly a Dutch territory called West New Guinea, Dutch New Guinea
or Netherlands New Guinea. A West Papua pro-independence movement began
and by 2004 an estimated 100,000 civilians had died in the struggle.
(WUD, 1994, p.1623)(SFC, 9/8/99, p.A17)
1963 Left leaning students
sympathetic to Iran’s former PM Mohammed Mossadeq, deposed in 1953,
founded Mujahedin e-Kalq (People’s Mujahedin of Iran).
(WSJ, 5/8/08, p.A10)
1963 Iraq renounced its claim laid
to Kuwait.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)
1963 Japan’s Shimano Corp.
introduced a cold forging plant to press precision parts for bicycles
using dies and high pressure to form metal at room temp.
(Hem, 8/96, p.34)
1963 Kenya gained independence
from Britain and the Kenyan African National Union Party began ruling.
(SFC, 10/17/96, A8)(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)
1963 Kuwait began a democratic
process with the founding of a legislature, but only a select few were
eligible to vote. Power rested with the royal family.
(SFC, 5/17/99, p.A12)(Econ, 7/8/06, p.40)
1963 In Lesotho Moshoeshoe II was
crowned king.
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.14A)
1963 The population of
Malawi was estimated at about 3.75 million.
(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)
1963 In Guadalajara, Mexico, Madre
Lupita (b.1878) died in the Santa Margarita Hospital she helped found.
She was beatified in 2004 by Pope John Paul II.
(AP, 4/24/04)
1963 In Mexico during the
administration of Lopez Mateos soldiers took part in the mutilation
killing of a leader of coffee farmers in the community of El Ticui. The
event was documented in a 2006 government report on Mexico’s “dirty
war.”
(AP, 2/27/06)
1963 Islamabad replaced Karachi as
the capital of Pakistan.
(http://wikitravel.org/en/Islamabad)
1963 Roland Rowland (d.1998)
became chief executive of the London and Rhodesia Mining and Land Co.
(Lonrho). Over the next 30 years "Tiny" turned it into a conglomerate
with more than 1000 subsidiaries in over 60 countries.
(SFC, 7/28/98, p.A20)(Econ, 11/8/08, p.62)
1963 Northern Rhodesia (later
Zambia) ended a federation with Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
(Econ, 12/24/05, p.63)
1963 In South Africa Albie Sachs
was jailed without charges for 168 days. He described his experience in
the book: "The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs."
(SFEC, 2/9/97, z1 p.7)
1963 The Rivonia trial began and
resulted in the jailing of Nelson Mandela and Govan Mbeki. In 1999
Glenn Frankel authored "Rivonia's Children." White activists (Joe Slovo
and his wife Ruth First, Rusty and Hilda Bernstein, and Anna Marie and
Harold Wolpe) of the South African Communist Party, involved in the
trial, fled into exile. The trial was named after the area where the
ANC members were arrested.
(WSJ, 10/4/99, p.A40)(SFC, 7/18/02, p.A26)
1963 South Africa conducted a
joint nuclear test with Israel, but the Israelis did not confirm the
report.
(SFC, 5/18/02, p.A2)
1963 Josef Brodsky was tried by a
Soviet judge on a charge of parasitism. The judge asked Brodsky: "Who
gave you the authority to call yourself a poet?" Mr. Brodsky replied:
"No one. Who gave me the authority to enter the human race?"
(G&M, 2/2/96, p.A-22)
1963 The Soviet Union planned to
harness hydroelectric power and feed a huge aluminum smelter in
Tajikistan.
(WSJ, 7/2/98, p.A1)
1963 In Switzerland Werner Thomas,
accordionist, began performing a tune he’d written in the late 1950s at
his restaurant in Davos. The tune later became known worldwide as the
chicken dance.
(WSJ, 7/16/01, p.A1)
1963 In Vietnam the Battle of Ap
Bac was fought.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A21)
1963 Aden (South Yemen) was
amalgamated with the British protectorate to form the Federation of
South Arabia which resulted in rioting.
(www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/yemen.htm)
1963-1964 "The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964"
by historian Michael R. Beschloss was published in 1997.
(SFC, 10/6/97, p.A2)
1963-1965 This period is covered by Taylor Branch in
his 2nd volume of 3 on the civil rights era: "Pillar of Fire: America
in the King Years." The 1st volume "Parting the Water" was published in
1988.
(WSJ, 1/16/98, p.A12)(SFEC, 1/25/98, BR p.1)
1963-1968 Lester B. Pearson, Liberal Party, served as
the 14th Prime Minister of Canada.
(CFA, '96, p.81)
1963-1968 Jozef Lenart (d.2004) served as prime
minister of Czechoslovakia.
(AP, 2/12/04)
1963-1969 Lyndon Baines Johnson served as the 36th
President of the US.
(A&IP, ESM, p.96h, photo)
1963-1969 Denys Rackley (d.1998 at 76), Carthusian
monk, helped build the only American monastery of the Carthusian order,
the Charterhouse of the Transfiguration in Arlington, Vt. He trained at
the Carthusian order’s mother house in La Grand Chartreuse, France,
where the order is supported by the sale of its Chartreuse liqueur.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A22)
1963-1973 The 1975 US Church committee report on CIA
activity in Chile included a chronology that covered this period.
(http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/churchreport.htm)
1963-1974 Dr. Charles Weldon served in Laos as the
chief medical officer for USAID. In 1999 Weldon authored "Tragedy in
Paradise: A Country doctor at War in Laos."
(SFC, 11/30/02, p.A23)
1963-1994 King Hussein of Jordan (1935-1999) held at
least 55 secret meetings with leading Israelis including at least seven
prime and foreign ministers.
(Econ, 11/24/07, p.88)
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