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- Oct 20 Musical "Mr President" opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances
- Oct 20 Chinese army lands in India
- Oct 20 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 22 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis
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John F. Kennedy
United Nations Speech
Oct 23 Adlai Stevenson speaks at the United Nations about the Cuba crisis
Adlai Stevenson II
Film Release
Oct 24 "The Manchurian Candidate", directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, is released
Frank Sinatra
Nobel Prize
Oct 25 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
John Steinbeck
- Oct 25 US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
- Oct 26 The Beatles record "Ask Me Why"
- Oct 26 JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
Event of Interest
Oct 26 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closes its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
The Man Who Saved The World
Oct 27 Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines
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- Oct 27 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
- Oct 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 27 The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian oil industry's most powerful figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances
- Oct 28 Jo Weatherly in a Pontiac finishes 2nd to Rex White in season-ending Dixie 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway to clinch his 1st of 2 consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Championships
- Oct 28 NY Giant Y. A. Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34)
- Oct 28 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
- Oct 28 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 28 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement
- Oct 30 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
Film Release
Oct 31 "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" horror film released directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, based on novel by Henry Farrell
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
- Nov 1 Greece enters European Common Market
- Nov 1 KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Nov 1 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
- Nov 1 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
- Nov 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Nov 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 1 WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Nov 1 WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Nov 3 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
NBA Record
Nov 3 Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points at the Los Angeles Lakers, then 4th-highest point total in NBA history; hits 29 field goals & 14 free throws; remains 6th highest game total
Wilt Chamberlain
Election of Interest
Nov 6 Edward W. Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
Edward W. Brooke
Election of Interest
Nov 7 Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California
Richard Nixon
NHL Record
Nov 7 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
Glenn Hall
- Nov 8 Canada's government orders the nickel changed back to round shape
- Nov 9 Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World
- Nov 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 10 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 performances
- Nov 11 Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait
- Nov 15 Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
- Nov 16 Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
- Nov 16 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 73 points vs NY Knicks
- Nov 17 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 9 performances
- Nov 17 US President JFK dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.
Music Premiere
Nov 17 Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's musical "Little Me" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 257 performances
Neil Simon
- Nov 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
Nov 19 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
Fidel Castro
Event of Interest
Nov 20 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP for the 3rd time
Mickey Mantle
- Nov 20 USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade
- Nov 21 The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
- Nov 22 7th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games open in Perth, Australia
- Nov 23 LA Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named National League MVP
- Nov 24 Last of Dutch military leave New Guinea
- Nov 25 WBJA (now WMGC) TV channel 34 in Binghamton, NY (ABC) 1st broadcast
- Nov 26 Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
- Nov 26 The Beatles re-record "Please Please Me" at a faster tempo
- Nov 27 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
- Nov 27 Sumner Arthur Long's play "Never Too Late" premieres in NYC
- Nov 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 28 Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored
- Nov 29 Major League Baseball decides to revert to 1 All-Star game per year, after 4 seasons in which 2 All-Star games were played
- Nov 29 Great Britain & France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner
- Nov 30 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Dec 1 KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Dec 1 27th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 38-0 in Birmingham, their fourth straight shutout in the series
- Dec 1 Classifications in minor league baseball are overhauled; Eastern and South Atlantic leagues are promoted from Class-A to Class-AA; classes B, C and D are abolished with those leagues being promoted to Class-A
- Dec 2 50th Grey Cup, Exhibition Stadium, Toronto: Winnipeg Blue Bombers edge Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 28-27; play starts 1 December; only final ever suspended during play (fog), and first to be finished on a Sunday
- Dec 3 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
- Dec 3 Pravda criticizes western art
- Dec 3 1963 NFL Draft: Terry Baker from Oregon State first pick by Los Angeles Rams
- Dec 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 6 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program
- Dec 7 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 8 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 performances
- Dec 8 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
- Dec 8 Attempted coup in British-controlled Brunei
Event of Interest
Dec 8 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
- Dec 9 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
- Dec 9 Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
- Dec 10 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
- Dec 10 David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia", based on life of T. E. Lawrence and starring Peter O'Toole, premieres at Odeon Leicester Square (Academy Awards Best Picture 1963)
- Dec 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 13 Relay 1 communication satellite launched
- Dec 14 Mariner 2 makes 1st US fly-by of another planet (Venus)
- Dec 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
#1 in the Charts
Dec 15 Vaughn Meader's "1st Family" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 weeks
Vaughn Meader
Film Release
Dec 16 "Lawrence of Arabia" film directed by David Lean and starring Peter O'Toole, is released in the United States
Music Premiere
Dec 18 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony premieres in Moscow
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Dec 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Dec 18 WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Dec 18 Ballon d'Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
- Dec 19 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
- Dec 19 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
- Dec 19 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
Event of Interest
Dec 20 Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
Andy Williams
- Dec 21 Angolin leaves Comecon
- Dec 21 US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
- Dec 22 1,000,000th NBA point scored
- Dec 22 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
- Dec 22 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
- Dec 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Dec 23 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
- Dec 23 AFL Championship, Jeppesen Stadium, Houston: Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers, 20-17; Tommy Brooker lands winning 25-yard field goal in overtime
- Dec 24 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Dec 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Film Release
Dec 25 "To Kill a Mockingbird", a film adaptation of the novel by Harper Lee, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck, is released (Gregory Peck - Best Actor Academy Awards 1963)
Gregory Peck
Harper Lee
- Dec 26 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Katerina Ismailova" premieres in Moscow
- Dec 27 28th Heisman Trophy Award: Terry Baker, Oregon State (QB)
- Dec 28 UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
- Dec 28 51st Davis Cup: Australia beats Mexico in Brisbane (5-0)
- Dec 29 Australian cricket batting champion Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW v Queensland in Sydney at just 17 years, 8 days; scores 50 in NSW 2nd innings
Event of Interest
Dec 29 British driver Graham Hill wins the South African Grand Prix at Prince George Circuit in a BRM; takes out his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Scotsman Jim Clark
Graham Hill
NFL Championship
Dec 30 National Football League Championship, Yankee Stadium, NYC: Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants, 16-7; MVP: Ray Nitschke, Green Bay, LB
Ray Nitschke