I know this is an extensive list, but I called up all the world events that happened in 1963. There is a theory floating around the Internet that 1963 was a pivotal year. I was amazed at the events that came up. And I deleted all the music events and sports events and only included political events. I am not a political analyst. I don't necessarily know the ramifications of all of these events.
I did count the number of TV stations started in 1963 and found 7 PBS stations, 3 Independent stations, 4 ABC stations, and 1 CBS. I thought it odd that there were so many PBS, so I googled PBS stations started in 1962 and didn't get any at all. I guess 1963 was the first year for PBS stations ever. It said that 1970 was the first official year for the PBS program, which I find odd, seeing as there were stations starting in 1963. Stations starting 7 years before the program started?
I was born in 1963. I remember watching Romper Room, but I don't remember if it was on PBS. I don't think so, because we only got network at the time. PBS was on a different antenna. Dad had to put the BIG antenna up to get the PBS channel. Of course, that was when when Romper Room served lunch. I used to eat lunch with Romper Room every day. Romper Stomper, Bomper Do. But then they decided that some kids were under-privileged and may not get lunch, and how bad would they feel watching those kids eat when they couldn't? So that ended eating lunch with the kids on Romper Room. I thought it was neat getting to eat with kids on the TV. I had my tomato soup and Fritos...muncha buncha, Fritos go with lunch. I learned the Pledge of Allegiance from Romper Room. I was the only kid in Kindergarten who knew the Pledge. For the longest time, I had to say it in a little kids' voice. Until the Navy. And it wasn't on PBS.
The President of the World bank had been Eugene Black for 13 years. George Woods was President for 5 years. The average is 4.9 years of all Presidents over the time the World Bank has been in effect.
There were 47,617 deaths due to natural disasters. I don't know if that's high or low, just a fact.
Political Deaths, US politics, Murders, Disasters, Policy, Technology
January 1
Bogle-Chandler case: CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney.
January 14 George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!"
January 22 – France and Germany sign the Elysée Treaty.
January 26 – The Australia Day shootings rock Perth, Western Australia; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by Eric Edgar Cooke.
January 28 – African American student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration.
January 29 – French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the EEC.
February 8 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.
February 10 – Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of Kyūshū are merged and become the city of Kitakyūshū, with a population of more than 1 million.
February 11 – The CIA's Domestic Operations Division is created.
February 12 – Northwest Airlines flight 705 crashes in the Florida Everglades killing everyone aboard.
February 19 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique launches the reawakening of the Women's Movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness-raising groups spread.
February 21 – An earthquake destroys the village of Barce, Libya, killing 900.
February 27 - Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic. Female suffrage is enacted in Iran.
February 28 – Dorothy Schiff resigns from the New York Newspaper Publisher's Association, feeling that the city needs at least one paper. Her paper, the New York Post, resumes publication on March 4.
March
March 4 – In Paris, 6 people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons 5 of them but the other conspirator is executed by firing squad a few days later.
March 27: British Rail network, as it would have become, if "Beeching axe" plans had been fully implemented (only bolded rail lines would have remained).
March 16 – Mount Agung erupts on Bali, killing 11,000.
March 18 – Gideon v. Wainwright: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the poor must have lawyers.
March 21 – The Alcatraz Island federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closes; the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
March 27 – In Britain, Dr. Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the UK's rail network.
March 31 – The 1962 New York City newspaper strike ends after 114 days.
March 21: Alcatraz closes
April 1 – The longrunning soap opera General Hospital debuted on ABC.
April 3 – SCLC volunteers kick off the Birmingham campaign against segregation with a sit-in.
April 7 – Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a socialist republic, and Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.
April 10 – The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 miles east of Cape Cod; all 129 crewmen die.
April 12 – Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham protest for "parading without a permit".
April 12 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish Straits. Although severely damaged, both vessels make it to port.
April 15 – 70,000 marchers arrive in London from Aldermaston, to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.
April 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his Letter from Birmingham Jail.
April 20 – In Quebec, Canada, members of the terrorist group Front de libération du Québec, bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill.
April 21–23 – The first election of the Supreme Institution of the Bahá'í Faith (known as the Universal House of Justice, whose seat is at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel) is held.
April 22 – Lester Bowles Pearson becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Canada.
April 28 – A general election is held in Italy.
May 1 – The Coca-Cola Company debuts its first diet drink, TaB cola.
May 2
Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor later unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators.
Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany).
May 4 – The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel, Senegal kills 64.
May 8 Hue Vesak shootings: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam opens fire on Buddhists who defy a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha, killing nine. Earlier, President Ngo Dinh Diem allowed the flying of the Vatican flag in honour of his brother, Archibishop Ngo Dinh Thuc.
May 13 – A smallpox outbreak hits Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until July.
May 15 – Mercury program: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury 9, the last mission (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete).
May 23 – Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union.
May 25 – The Organisation of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
June 3 – Hue chemical attacks: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam pours chemicals on the heads of Buddhist protestors. The United States threatens to cut off aid to Ngo Dinh Diem's regime
June 3 – Pope John XXIII dies.
June 4 – President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order 11110. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=59049
June 11
In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest against integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll.
President John F. Kennedy delivered a historic Civil Rights Address, in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill, and asks for "the kind of equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves."
June 12 – Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi (his killer is convicted in 1994).
June 13 – The cancellation of Mercury 10 effectively ends the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight.
June 16 – Vostok 6 carries Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman, into space.
June 17 – Abington School District v. Schempp: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that state-mandated Bible reading in public schools is unconstitutional.
June 19 – Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space, returns to Earth.
June 21 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.
June 26 – John F. Kennedy gives his 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech in West Berlin.
July 1 – ZIP Codes are introduced in the U.S.
July 5
Diplomatic relations between the Israeli and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level.
The Roman Catholic Church accepts cremation as a funeral practice.
July 7 – Double Seven Day scuffle: Secret police loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, attack American journalists including Peter Arnett and David Halberstam at a demonstration during the Buddhist crisis.
July 12 – Pauline Reade, 16, is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in Manchester, England.
July 19 – American test pilot Joe Walker, flying the X-15, reaches an altutude of 65.8 miles (105.9 kilometers), making it a sub-orbital spaceflight by recognized international standards.
July 26
An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia leaves 1,800 dead.
NASA launches Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite.
July 30 – The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow.
August 5 – The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
August 15 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
August 18 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
August 19 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
August 21 Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
August 22 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km)
August 23 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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.
August 28 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C.
August 28 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
August 30 Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins
September 1 Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot
September 1 WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
September 2 Alabama Governor George C. Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
September 2 CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
September 8 Algerian population accepts constitution
September 9 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
September 9 Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy)
September 10 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
September 12 WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting
September 13 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
September 15 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
September 15 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
September 15 WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
September 16 Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo and Sarawak
September 16 WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
September 17 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
September 18 U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
September 22 Czechoslovakian premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart
September 23 Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State
September 23 WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
September 24 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain and U.S.S.R. limit nuclear testing
September 26 1st edition of New York City Review of Books
September 26, Lee Harvey Oswald traveled on a Continental Trailways bus to Mexico.
September 27 At 10:59 AM census clock, records U.S. population at 190,000,000
September 29 Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
September 30 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office
October 1 Nigeria becomes a republic within Commonwealth
October 2 West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R.
October 3 Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured
October 4 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
October 4 Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti
October 5 Hyde St. Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
October 7 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary after being charged in a 300-thousand-dollar civil suit with using his influence for personal monetary gains.
October 7 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
October 7 John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
October 8 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
October 9 British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns
October 9 Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die
October 9 French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons
October 9 Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000
October 9 Uganda becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
October 10 Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die
October 10 Netherland population hits 12,000,000
October 10 Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R.
October 12 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
October 14 Algeria and Morocco border conflict
October 14 WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, North Carolina (ABC) begins
October 15 Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor
October 16 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
October 16 New York newspaper "Mirror" last edition
October 18 IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics
October 20 Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
October 20 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
October 20 South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy
October 20 WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
October 22 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
October 25 Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
October 26 U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada
October 30 Morocco and Algeria signs cease fire
October 31 J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy
October 31 Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana)
November 5 U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands
November 9 2 high-speed commuter trains collided with a derailed freight train
November 9 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan)
November 12 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
November 16 Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
November 16 Touch-tone telephone introduced
November 18 Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
November 18 England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under Thames opens
November 18 King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco
November 19 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
November 21 John F. Kennedy flies to Texas
November 22 Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th U.S. president
November 23 Horatio Alger Society founded
November 23 John F. Kennedy's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
November 23 Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy)
November 24 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
November 25 John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
November 26 Explorer 18 launched
November 28 WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
November 29 Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of John F. Kennedy
December 1 Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
December 2 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
December 4 Aldo Moro forms Italian government
December 4 Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council
December 8 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
December 9 Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped
December 9 Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
December 10 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
December 12 Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron
December 12 Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped
December 12 Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
December 17 Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
December 17 West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
December 18 Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
December 19 Zanzibar becomes independent from UK
December 20 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
December 20 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville
December 20 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
December 22 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends
December 23 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
December 24 Greek and Turks riot in Cyprus
December 26 U.S. furnishes cereal to U.S.S.R.
December 30 Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
I found the most interesting part in December. Kenya, formerly British East Africa, declares independence from UK. How can Barack H. Obama's birth certificate state he was born in 1961 in Kenya, when it was British East Africa?
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