What Happened in 1963
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Dole Philippines Is Organized
Dole Philippines, the pineapple growing operations in the Philippines, is organized under the name Dolefil. Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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,... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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.... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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'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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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"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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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"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,... Read more