1963 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1963?
- January 25, 1963 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- March 27, 1963 – Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom’s rail network.
- May 2, 1963 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
- May 8, 1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine.
- June 5, 1963 – British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
- July 1, 1963 – ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
- August 8, 1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes.
- August 15, 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
- August 21, 1963 – Xa Loi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
- August 24, 1963 – Don Schollander swims the 200-metre freestyle in less than 2 minutes for the first time, in a world record time of 1:58.
- August 30, 1963 – The Hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
- September 2, 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television’s first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
- September 6, 1963 – The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
- September 15, 1963 – The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
- October 7, 1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
- November 2, 1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
- November 23, 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who (starring William Hartnell) which is the world’s longest running science fiction drama.
- December 14, 1963 – Baldwin Hills Reservoir wall bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles.
- December 19, 1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
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