November 1963 in History

Events in History

Nov 2 Ngô Đình Diệm, the President of South Vietnam, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup by the South Vietnamese Army

Nov 5 US VP Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands

Nov 7 Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
Nov 9 Coal-dust explosion and the resulting buildup of carbon monoxide kills 458 at Mitsui Miike Coal Mine in Omuta, Japan
Nov 9 Tsurumi rail accident on Tōkaidō Main Line, two passenger trains collide with derailed freight train, killing 162 people. in Yokohama, Japan
Nov 16 Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
Nov 18 Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania
Nov 18 Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens
Nov 18 King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco

Nov 21 US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day)

Nov 22 Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US President after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Nov 22 US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas

Nov 23 Debut of "Doctor Who" the long-running British sci-fi series
Nov 23 Horatio Alger Society founded
Nov 23 JFK's body lies in repose in the East Room of the White House
Nov 23 LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)
Nov 25 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
Nov 26 Explorer 18 spacecraft launched by NASA
Nov 27 The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg
Nov 28 Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
Nov 29 LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of JFK
Nov 29 Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal, Canada

Nov 30 Martin Walser's "Überlebensgross Herr Krott" premieres in Stuttgart

Nov 1 Nita Ambani, Indian businesswoman (Reliance Industries, Mumbai Indians) and philanthropist, born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nov 2 Brian Kemp, American politician, Governor of Georgia (2019-), born in Athens, Georgia
Nov 4 Wang Shu, Chinese architect (2012 - 1st Chinese architect to win Pritzker Prize), born in Ürümqi, Xinjiang
Nov 9 Fulvio Fantoni, Italian bridge player, born in Grosseto, Italy
Nov 12 Damon Galgut, South African playwright and writer (2021 Booker Prize), born in Pretoria, South Africa
Nov 13 Thilo Timothy Newman, writer (Freejack, Alien), born in Hamburg, Germany
Nov 17 Pedro Luis Estrada, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Brooklyn, New York
Nov 19 Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer, born in Budapest, Hingary
Nov 20 Timothy Gowers, British mathematician (1998 Fields Medal), born in Malborough, England
Nov 23 Gwynne Shotwell, American engineer and businesswoman (SpaceX), born in Evanston, Illinois
Nov 23 Mamoru Takuma, Japanese mass murderer and rapist (d. 2004)

Nov 3 Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (26) weds cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev (34) at the Moscow Wedding Palace

Nov 2 President and authoritarian leader of South Vietnam (1954-63), assassinated in a coup at 62

Nov 6 Djuanda Kartawidjaja, 11th and final Prime Minister of Indonesia, dies at 52
Nov 10 Otto Flake, writer, dies
Nov 13 Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
Nov 21 Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (Perfil del Aire), dies at 61
Nov 21 Robert Stroud, American murderer, convict, and ornithologist dubbed "Birdman of Alcatraz", dies at 73

Nov 22 English author (Brave New World), dies at 69

Nov 22 Bikram Singh, Indian Lt-General (Kashmir), killed in a helicopter crash in Poonch district

Nov 22 British author (The Chronicles of Narnia), dies of renal failure at 64

Nov 22 Daulet Singh, Indian Lt-General, killed in a helicopter crash in Poonch district
Nov 22 Erlic Pinto, Indian air vice marshal (Annexation of Goa), killed at 42 in a helicopter crash in Poonch district
Nov 22 J. D. Tippit, American police officer, murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald at 39, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy