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Events:

   * January 11 - The Whiskey-a-Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first
     disco in the USA, is opened.
   * January 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama.
   * January 16 - Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens in Los Angeles, California
   * January 22 - Elysˇe treaty between France and Germany
   * February 8 - Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United
     States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy
     administration.
   * February 11 - CIA Domestic Operations Division is created.
   * March 4 - In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to
     assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
   * March 21 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San
     Francisco Bay, closes.
   * March 27 - In Britain Dr Beeching issues report calling for huge cuts
     to the UK's rail network See Beeching axe.
   * April 7 - Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a Socialist republic and Josip
     Broz Tito is named President for life.
   * April 22 - Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's fourteenth prime
     minister.
   * May 15 - Mercury program: NASA launches the last mission of the
     program, Mercury 9 (on June 12 NASA Administrator James Webb told
     Congress the program was complete).
   * May 25 - In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is
     established.
   * June 16 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) becomes the first woman in space.
   * June 22 - Pope Paul VI is elected by College of Cardinals.
   * August 5 - United States, Great Britain, and Soviet Union sign a
     nuclear test ban treaty.
   * August 8 - The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire,
     England
   * August 18 - American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the
     first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
   * August 28 - Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speech on
     the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
   * September 29 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council in
     Rome.
   * November 22 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated; Lyndon
     Johnson is sworn into office
   * December 4 - Closing of second period of Second Vatican Council.

Art, Culture & Fashion

1963 is the year dubbed "Annus Mirabilis" by British poet Philip Larkin.

   * 1963 in film
        o Tom Jones
        o Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
        o Charade starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
        o McLintock! starring John Wayne
   * 1963 in music
        o February 11 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album,
          including Please, Please Me (released on March 2).
   * 1963 in sports
        o January 29 - First inductees into the Football Hall of Fame are
          announced
   * 1963 in television
        o May 15 - First television pictures transmitted from a U.S. manned
          space capsule ("Faith 7.") Due to the poor picture quality, only
          NBC carries the transmission, and on tape-delay, not live
        o September 2 ? CBS becomes first network to expand its evening
          network news from 15 to 30 minutes.
        o September 9 - NBC expands its evening network news program to 30
          minutes
        o November 22 - regular television programming is suspended
          following news of John F. Kennedy's assassination
        o November 23 - first episode of Dr Who is broadcast in the UK.
        o November 24 - Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy's suspected
          assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television.
        o The television remote control is authorized by the FCC.

Births:

   * January 14 - Steven Soderbergh, director
   * January 23 - Gail O'Grady, actress
   * January 26 - Andrew Ridgeley, musician
   * February 9 - Travis Tritt, country music singer
   * February 11 - Todd Benzinger, American baseball player.
   * February 17 - Michael Jordan, basketball
   * February 19 - Seal, singer
   * February 21 - William Baldwin, actor
   * March 10 - Neneh Cherry, musician
   * March 18 - Vanessa Williams, actress, singer, Miss America
   * March 27 - Quentin Tarantino, actor, director, writer, producer
   * March 27 - Xuxa, television personality
   * April 4 - Graham Norton, talk show host
   * April 26 - Jet Li, martial arts fighter, actor
   * May 11 - Natasha Richardson, actress
   * May 25 - Mike Myers, actor, comedian
   * June 25 - George Michael, singer
   * July 30 - Lisa Kudrow, American actress.
   * October 10 - Daniel Pearl, journalist (+2002)
   * October 26 - Natalie Merchant, singer/songwriter/musician

Deaths:

   * Suzanne Duchamp, Dada painter
   * January 5 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * January 29 - Robert Frost, poet
   * January 30 - Francis Poulenc, composer
   * February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
   * March 4 - William Carlos Williams, writer
   * March 5 - Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas, country music singers
   * April 6 - Otto Struve, astronomer (+ 1897)
   * June 3 - Pope John XXIII
   * October 11 - Edith Piaf, French singer
   * October 11 - Jean Cocteau, writer
   * November 1 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
   * November 22 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee
     Harvey Oswald
   * November 22 - Aldous Huxley, novelist
   * November 22 - C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English
     professor
   * November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald, shot by Jack Ruby
   * December 28 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
   * Theodore Roethke - American poet

Technology:

   * End of the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight
   * Frisch and Smith prove radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their
     motion. (See Einstein's Special Relativity and General Relativity).
   * Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite is
     orbited by NASA.
   * Full deployment of SAGE, the semi-automated ground environment.
   * TAT-3 cable goes into operation.
   * Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word "clone".
   * Arecibo radio telescope officially begins operation.

Nobel Prizes:

   * Physics - Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
   * Chemistry - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
   * Medicine - Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding
     Huxley
   * Literature - Giorgos Seferis
   * Peace - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross
     Societies

Miscellaneous

   * Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley

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