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Revision as of 09:07, 22 January 2003 by SebastianHelm (talk | contribs) (added Jan 22)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968
Events:
- January 11 - The Whiskey-a-Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened.
- January 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama.
- January 16 - Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens in Los Angeles, California
- January 22 - Elisée treaty between France and Germany
- February 11 - CIA Domestic Operations Division is created.
- April 22 - Lester B. Pearson becomes Canada's fourteenth prime minister.
- June 16 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) becomes the first woman in space.
- June 22 - Pope Paul VI is elected by College of Cardinals.
- August 28 - Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speech on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
- September 29 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council in Rome.
- November 22 - Lyndon Johnson succeeds John F. Kennedy as President of the United States of America
- December 4 - Closing of second period of Second Vatican Council.
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1963 in film
- Tom Jones
- Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
- Charade starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
- McLintock! starring John Wayne
- 1963 in literature
- 1963 in music
- February 11 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album, including "Please, Please Me".
- 1963 in sports
- 1963 in television
- May 15 - First television pictures transmitted from a U.S. manned space capsule ("Faith 7.") Due to the poor picture quality, only NBC carries the transmission, and on tape-delay, not live
- September 2 – CBS becomes first network to expand its evening network news from 15 to 30 minutes.
- September 9 - NBC expands its evening network news program to 30 minutes
- November 22 - regular television programming is suspended following news of John F. Kennedy's assassination
- November 23 - first episode of Dr Who is broadcast in the UK.
- November 24 - Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television.
- The television remote control is authorized by the FCC.
Births:
- January 14 - Steven Soderbergh, director
- February 11 - Todd Benzinger, American baseball player.
Deaths:
- January 5 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer
- January 30 - Francis Poulenc, composer
- February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
- June 3 - Pope John XXIII
- October 11 -
- Edith Piaf, French singer
- Jean Cocteau, writer
- November 1 - Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
- November 22 -
- John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald
- novelist Aldous Huxley
- C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English professor
- November 24 - Lee Harvey Oswald, shot by Jack Ruby
- December 28 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
- Theodore Roethke - American poet
Technology:
- End of the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight
- Frisch and Smith prove radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion. (See Einstein's Special Relativity and General Relativity).
- Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite is orbited by NASA.
- Full deployment of SAGE, the semi-automated ground environment.
- TAT-3 cable goes into operation.
- Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane coins the word "clone".
- Arecibo radio telescope officially begins operation.
- Physics - Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
- Chemistry - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
- Medicine - Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
- Literature - Giorgos Seferis
- Peace - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
Miscellaneous
- Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley