Events in History in 1963 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 317 of 317

• 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.

• 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

• 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 Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls
• Sep 15 Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appear in San Francisco outfield for 1 inn
• Sep 15 Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria

• 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 22 Czechoslovakian premier Viliam Široký deposed by Josef Lenart
• Sep 23 Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State
• Sep 24 US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing
• Sep 26 1st edition of NYC Review of Books

• Sep 27 At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000
• Sep 27 Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico
• Sep 28 Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds
• Sep 28 NYC DJ "Murray The K" plays "She Loves You" on the radio
• 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 Wis takes office
• Oct 1 Nigeria enacts a new constitution and becomes a republic

• Oct 3 Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured
• Oct 4 -8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti
• Oct 4 Gambia achieves full internal self-government


• Oct 5 Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park
• Oct 7 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
• Oct 7 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
• Oct 7 JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
• Oct 8 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
• Oct 9 Vajont Dam disaster, landslide creates 50 million cubic metre wave killing around 2,000 in the Piave Valley in Northern Italy

• Oct 9 French air force gets first nuclear weapons
• Oct 9 Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
• Oct 10 Netherlands population hits 12,000,000
• Oct 10 France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia
• Oct 12 Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel
• Oct 12 San Francisco's Oakland Bay Bridge converted to 1-way on each deck
• Oct 14 Algeria & Morocco border conflict
• Oct 15 Ludwig Erhard succeeds Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor of West Germany
• Oct 16 2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
• Oct 16 NY newspaper "Mirror" last edition
• Oct 20 Alec Douglas-Home forms British government
• Oct 20 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria

• Oct 22 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
• Oct 22 BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board.

• Oct 24 KRO shows first episode of Bonanza
• Oct 25 Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas
• Oct 26 US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon, Nevada
• Oct 27 Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW v Qld at Gabba
• Oct 30 Morocco & Algeria sign cease fire

• Oct 31 Leaking propane gas explodes kills 64 at 'Holiday on Ice' in Indiana

• Nov 7 Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
• Nov 9 450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan)
• Nov 12 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
• 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 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
• Dec 1 Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
• Dec 2 First Dutch rocket launched, reaches height of 10 km

• Dec 7 Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
• Dec 8 Frank Sinatra, Jr is kidnapped at Harrah's Lake Tahoe (Nevada)
• Dec 8 Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with 81 killed


• Dec 10 Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain

• Dec 12 Frank Sinatra, Jr returned by kidnappersafter his father paid the $240,000 ransom demanded
• Dec 12 Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
• Dec 14 Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
• Dec 17 Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
• Dec 17 West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
• Dec 18 Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6)
• Dec 18 Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
• Dec 20 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
• Dec 20 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville
• Dec 20 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
• Dec 22 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
• Dec 22 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends
• Dec 22 Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives
• Dec 23 The Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
• Dec 23 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
• Dec 24 Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus
• Dec 26 US furnishes cereal to USSR
• Dec 30 Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar

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