June 1963 in History

Events in History

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 Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War's most iconic images

Jun 11 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama
Jun 11 Greek government of Karamanlis resigns
Jun 11 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act"

Jun 12 American civil rights activist Medgar Evers is assassinated by white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith in Jackson, Mississippi

Jun 15 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns

Jun 16 Soviet space mission Vostok 6 is launched with Valentina Tereshkova onboard, who becomes the 1st woman in space

Jun 17 British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
Jun 17 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
Jun 18 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school to protest de facto segregation
Jun 19 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
Jun 19 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
Jun 19 Greek government of Pipinolis forms
Jun 19 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
Jun 20 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"

Jun 21 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of Roman Catholic Church, succeeding John XXIII

Jun 23 The Detroit March to Freedom occurs with 125,000 people participating, the largest civil rights demonstration in America up to that point
Jun 23 US President John F. Kennedy tours Western Europe
Jun 24 Levi Eshkol forms 11th Israeli government
Jun 24 Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain
Jun 25 Curnick Ndlovu, South African worker's union leader and African National Congress Leader, is arrested for acts of sabotage
Jun 25 JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
Jun 26 Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
Jun 26 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV
Jun 26 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a doughnut") speech in West Berlin
Jun 27 Bill J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon & McCartney "I Call Your Name"
Jun 27 US President John F. Kennedy spend his 1st full day in Ireland
Jun 27 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
Jun 28 Belaunde Terry inaugurated as President of Peru

Jun 29 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
Jun 30 Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo
Jun 30 International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting because of its apartheid policies

Jun 3 Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, born in Ronse, Belgium
Jun 4 Mossimo Giannulli, American fashion designer (founded Mossimo), born in California
Jun 12 Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer, born in Victoria, Australia
Jun 18 Rumen Radev, Bulgarian politician (President of Bulgaria 2017-), born in Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria
Jun 24 Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer
Jun 24 Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
Jun 25 Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian author (Life of Pi), born in Salamanca, Spain
Jun 26 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman and philanthropist, born in Moscow, Russia
Jun 26 Richard Garfield, American mathematician and game designer (Magic: The Gathering), born in Philadelphia
Jun 27 Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer, born in Melbourne, Australia
Jun 29 Khalid El-Masri, German-Lebanese suspected terrorist mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police in 2003, and handed over to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), born in Kuwait

Jun 3 Italian priest and 261st Pope (1958-63), dies of stomach cancer at 81

Jun 3 Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (Tosun Pasa, The Passenger), dies at 61
Jun 5 Donat Raymond, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame builder (head Canadian Arena Company, Montreal Forum rebuilt in 1968) and politician, dies at 83
Jun 6 William Baziotes, American painter (abstract expressionist), dies at 50
Jun 11 Thích Quảng Đức, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon at the age of 65-66
Jun 12 Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80

Jun 12 American civil rights activist and NAACP official, shot and assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi at 37

Jun 17 Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79
Jun 17 John Cowper Powys, British writer and critic (Wood & Stone, Wolf Solent), dies at 90
Jun 20 Joseph Self, American murderer, executed by hanging in Walla Walla, Washington at 32; last state execution until 1990
Jun 20 Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician, dies at 64
Jun 26 Obe Postma, Frisian poet (Fan wjerklank en bisinnen (Of resonance and reflection)), naturalist, and historian, dies at 95