1963 Events

1963 Alcatraz Prison is Closed
Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California. Often referred to as The Rock, the small island early-on served...
1963 Aretha Franklin Releases "Laughing on the Outside"
Laughing On The Outside (see 1963 in music) is the fourth studio album recorded by soul singer Aretha Franklin, for Columbia Records. These sessions found a 21-year-old Aretha Franklin...
1963 Chrysler Turbine Car is First Produced
Chrysler Turbine Cars were automobiles powered by gas turbine engines that the Chrysler Corporation assembled in a small plant in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1963, for use in the only consu...
1963 Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act (P.L. 88-206 77, Stat. 401) established a program to help clean up dirty air and to maintain clean air. Congress extended its efforts to remedy and prevent air pollution...
1963 Congress Passes the Equal Pay Act
The Equal Pay Act of 1963, Pub. L. No. 88-38, 77 Stat. 56, (June 10, 1963) codified at 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), is a United States federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at a...
1963 Dole Philippines Is Organized
Dole Philippines, the pineapple growing operations in the Philippines, is organized under the name Dolefil.
1963 Ford 300 is First Produced
The Ford 300 was a model of automobile built in the USA by the Ford Motor Company for the model year 1963 only. It was marketed as a lower-priced subseries of the base Galaxie, featured a...
1963 'Hop On Pop' is Published
A popular choice of elementary school teachers and children's librarians, Hop on Pop ranked sixteenth on Publishers Weekly's 2001 list of the all-time best-selling hardcover books for chi...
1963 Kellogg's Froot Loops Introduced
Froot Loops is a brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs and sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Germany and Latin America as well as South Africa. The cerea...
1963 Love (band) forms
Lee, who had lived in Los Angeles since the age of five, had been recording since 1963 with his bands, the LAG's and Lee's American Four. He'd also produced a single, "My Diary", for Rosa...
1963 Mercedes-Benz W113 is First Produced
The Mercedes-Benz W 113 automobiles were produced from 1963 through 1971. They were sold as the "pagoda roof" SL Class. The W 113 replaced the W 198 SL-Class in 1963 and was replaced by t...
1963 Mercury Marauder is First Produced
The Mercury Marauder was the name of different automobiles made by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company. The early Marauder was a V8-engined large automobile. It débuted as a 196...
1963 Oprah Winfrey Is Raped At Age 9
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her ch...
1963 Porsche 901 is First Produced
Porsche 901 was the name originally intended for the Porsche 911. By the early 1960s, Porsche project design numbers had reached into the 800s. For instance, Porsche's 1962 F1 model wa...
1963 Ronald Reagan is Narrator in "Heritage of Splendor"
1963 Sonia Sotomayor Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes
Sonia was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age eight, and began taking daily insulin injections. Her father died of heart problems at age 42, when she was nine years old. After this, she...
1963 Stevie Wonder Releases "Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius"
Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius is the third album and first live album by Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label. Released in 1963, the album finally gained success for the chil...
1963 William Faulkner Is Posthumously Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Reivers'
William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County draws to a close in this Library of America edition of his last three novels, rich with the accumulated history and lore of ...
1963 Jan 1st East Coast Homophiles Organization conference - Philadelphia
The first conference of East Coast Homophile Organizations provided a sounding board and conferencing platform for the increasingly radically militant Mattachine Society of Washington, NY...
1963 Jan 2 Battle of Ap Bac
The Battle of Ap Bac was a small-scale battle early in the Vietnam War which resulted in the first major combat victory by the Viet Cong against regular South Vietnamese and American forc...
1963 Jan 14 The Chamizal Dispute Is Formally Settled
The dispute was formally settled on January 14, 1963, when the United States and Mexico ratified a treaty that generally followed the 1911 arbitration recommendations. The agreement award...
1963 Feb 4 Boston College defeats Boston University, 2-1
1963 Feb 4 Harvard defeats Northeastern, 4-3
1963 Feb 11 Boston College defeats Harvard, 3-1
1963 Feb 11 Northeastern defeats Boston University, 4-2
1963 Feb 12
to 1965 Oct 28
 Gateway Arch Built
The Gateway Arch, also known as the Gateway to the West, is an integral part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and the iconic image of St. Louis, Missouri. It was constructed a...
1963 Feb 14 "8 1/2" Is Released
8½ (pronounced Otto e mezzo in Italian) is a 1963 film directed by Italian director Federico Fellini. Co-scripted by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, and Brunello Rondi, it stars M...
1963 Feb 17 Michael Jeffrey Jordan Is Born in Brooklyn, New York
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) web...
1963 Feb 20 George H.W. Bush Elected Chairman of the Harris County Republican Committee
Bush served as Chairman of the Republican Party for Harris County, Texas in 1964, but wanted to be more involved in policy making, so he set his stakes high: he aimed for a US Senate seat...
1963 Feb 28 MSW presents Discrimination Against the Employment of Homosexuals to the US Civil Service Commission
1963 Mar 1 "High And Low" Is Released
High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku, literally "Heaven and Hell"?) is a 1963 film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, and Kyōko Kagawa in the lead roles. It ...
1963 Mar 17 Eruption of Mount Agung
On February 18, 1963, local residents heard loud explosions and saw clouds rising from the crater of Mount Agung. On February 24, lava began flowing down the northern slope of the mountai...
1963 Mar 22 The Beatles release Please Please Me
Please Please Me is the first album recorded by The Beatles, rush-released on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of singles "Please Please Me" (#2) and "Love...
1963 Mar 23 Loyola (Chicago) Beats Cincinnati in Final Four
The 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball ...
1963 Mar 28 "The Birds" Is Released
The Birds (1963) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock It depicts a small town in the San Francisco Bay area which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a ser...
1963 Mar 28 "The Leopard" Is Released
The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo) is an award-winning 1963 film by Italian director Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel of the same name.
1963 Apr 4
to 1963 Apr 7
 Jack Nicklaus wins the 27th Masters Tournament
Jack Nicklaus donned his first Green Jacket defeating Tony Lema by one stroke, and Julius Boros and Sam Snead by two. Nicklaus' two-under total was aided by a 66 Friday.
1963 Apr 8 35th Academy Awards
The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. They were hosted by Frank Sinatra.
1963 Apr 10 Loss of the USS Thresher
In company with SKYLARK (ASR-20), THRESHER put to sea on 10 April 1963 for deep-diving exercises. In addition to her 16 officers and 96 enlisted men, the submarine carried 17 civilian tec...
1963 Apr 18 Toronto Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup
The 1963 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the defending champion Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings. The Maple Leafs would win the best-of-seven series four games to one to w...
1963 Apr 30 Ronald Reagan is Guest Host on the "Dick Powell Show" - Season 2, Episode 30: The Last of the Private Eyes
The exploits of J.F. Kelly, a bumbling private detective who solves crimes quite by accident. In the pilot episode, Kelly attempts to solve a murder by proving that the butler did it.
1963 May 3
to 1963 May 8
 Violence Erupts as Civil Rights Protesters Clash with Police in Birmingham, AL
The Birmingham campaign was a strategic movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the unequal treatment black Americans endured in Bi...
1963 May 8 Hue Vesak Shootings
The Hue Vesak shootings refer to the deaths of nine unarmed Buddhist civilians on May 8, 1963 in the city of Huế in South Vietnam, at the hands of the army and security forces of the gove...
1963 May 23 MSW Takes on the Metropolitan Police Department
Two days after Frank Kameny's birthday, the Metropolitan Police staged a violent and bloody raid on the Gayety Buffet, a gay meeting place on 9th St NW. Outraged by the raid, Kameny and ...
1963 May 28 "Hud" Is Released
Hud is a 1963 film which tells the story of a self-centered, modern-day cowboy. It stars Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde and Whit Bissell. It centers on the r...
1963 Jun 3 Pope John XXIII dies
On 23 September, 1962, Pope John XXIII was first diagnosed with gastric carcinoma. The diagnosis, which was kept from the public, followed nearly eight months of occasional stomach hemorr...
1963 Jun 11 Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on 11 June, 1963. George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his...
1963 Jun 21 Paul VI elected Pope
Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (26 September 1897 – 6 August 1978), reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Chur...
1963 Jun 26 President Kennedy Delivers "Ich bin ein Berliner" Speech at Berlin Wall
Under simultaneous and opposing pressures from the Allies and the Soviets, Germany was divided. The Berlin Wall separated West and East Berlin, the latter being under the control of the S...
1963 Jun 27 President Kennedy Arrives in Ireland to Promote Connections between Irish Americans and their Country of Ancestry
The US President John F Kennedy has received a rapturous welcome on an emotional visit to his ancestral homeland in County Wexford, Ireland. On the second day of his four-day trip to ...