Significant Events
- May 27 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya
- Jun 5 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
- Jun 10 US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy
- Jun 11 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act"
- Jul 22 Sarawak achieves independence from British colonial rule
- Aug 28 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
- Sep 16 Federation of Malaysia formed by Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak
- Nov 22 American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
World Leaders in 1963
John F. Kennedy
35th US President
Mao Zedong
Chinese Revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet First Secretary
Famous People in 1963
Martin Luther King Jr.
Time Person
of the Year
Patricia Neal
Oscar for Best Actress
Sidney Poitier
Oscar for Best Actor
George Michael
Johnny Depp
Mark McGwire
Michael Jordan
Natasha Richardson
Whitney HoustonWould You Believe?
Vajont Dam disaster, landslide creates 50 million cubic metre wave killing around 2,000 in the Piave Valley in Northern Italy
On October 9, 1963
Famous Weddings
- Jan 12 Country singer Willie Nelson (29) weds singer Shirley Collie (31) in Las Vegas
- Jan 12 Actor and comedian Bob Newhart (33) weds Virginia "Ginnie" Quinn
- Feb 2 Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola (23) weds documentary filmmaker Eleanor Jessie Neil (26) in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Mar 20 Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke
- Mar 21 Singer and actress Barbra Streisand (20) marries actor Elliott Gould (24)
John XXIII
Lee Harvey Oswald
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
W.E.B. Du Bois