September 1963 in History

Events in History

Sep 2 Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School

Sep 4 Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board
Sep 6 The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded at of the University of Strasbourg, France
Sep 7 American Bandstand moves to California, & airs once a week on Saturday
Sep 7 Two-building Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is officially opened
Sep 8 Algerian population accepts constitution
Sep 8 Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys in Venezuela
Sep 9 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
Sep 10 20 black students enter public schools in Alabama
Sep 11 Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage
Sep 13 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 14 Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy
Sep 15 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
Sep 15 Church bombing in Birmingham Alabama, kills 4 African-American girls

Sep 16 Federation of Malaysia formed by Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak

Sep 17 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
Sep 18 USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
Sep 19 Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sep 20 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon

Sep 26 Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico City, Mexico

Sep 27 At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
Sep 27 Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cuban consulate in Mexico City, seeking a visa
Sep 28 Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds
Sep 29 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opened in Rome by Pope Paul
Sep 29 Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
Sep 30 56th Postmaster General: John A. Gronouski of Wisconsin takes office

Sep 1 Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
Sep 3 Guido Imbens, Dutch American economist (2021 Nobel Prize for Economics), born in Geldrop, Netherlands
Sep 6 Alice Sebold, American novelist (The Almost Moon), born in Madison, Wisconsin
Sep 6 Bryan Simonaire, American politician (Maryland State Senator), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Sep 6 Geert Wilders, Dutch politician (Party for Freedom leader), born in Venlo, Netherlands
Sep 7 Chris Coons, American politician (Senator-D-Delaware 2010-), born in Greenwich, Connecticut
Sep 13 Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek politician (Minister of State), born in Messinia, Greece
Sep 17 Amy Roloff, American reality star (Little People, Big World), born in Michigan
Sep 17 Michael Adler, American businessman and diplomat
Sep 17 Rami Saari, Israeli poet and translator, born in Petah Tikva, Israel
Sep 17 Wendy Northcutt, American author of the Darwin Awards
Sep 25 Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist (Unsolved Mysteries), born in Vallejo, California

Sep 7 US politician Nancy D'Alesandro (23) marries businessman Paul Francis Pelosi (23) in Baltimore, Maryland

Sep 1 Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73
Sep 4 Robert Schuman, Luxembourg-born French statesman and Prime Minister of France (1947-48), dies at 77
Sep 9 Ernst Kantorowicz, German-American historian (Laudes regiae), dies at 68
Sep 9 Jan Schouten, Dutch co-founder of Daily Trouw (illegal resistance newspaper WWII), dies at 80
Sep 10 Eugène Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra), dies at 89
Sep 12 Mervyn A. Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63
Sep 17 Eduard Spranger, German psychologist and educator, dies at 81
Sep 21 Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (b. 1899)