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Hirmmlogy Of Events Shows '63 Was Year Of Many Events' By United Press International The year 1963 saw the assas sination of President Kennedy. It also was the year of other significant happenings riots in Birmingham, a sex scandal in Britain, a coup in South Viet nam, the election of a new Pope, the birth of the United States' first quintuplets to survive. A chronology of the year's major events: Jan. 7 Premier Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province ends se cession from the Congo, later flees to Paris. Jan. 29 France vetoes British entry into Common Market. Feb. s Canadian government falls, Lester B. Pearson be comes Prime Minister. Feb. 8 Premier Abdul Karim Kassim of Iraq slain in pro Nasserite coup. Feb. 12 Forty-three die when Northwest Orient Airlines jet crashes in Florida Everglades. Boat Attacked Feb 20 Cuba-based MIG fight er planes launch rocket at tack on American unarmed shrimp boat off Florida. March 25 Davey Moore. 29-year-old featherweight cham pion, dies of brain injury alt er knockout in title bout with Sugar Ramos. March 31 114-day New York City newspaper strike ends. April S Soviet Union agrees to "hot line" communications link between Moscow and Washington. April 10 Atomic submarine Thresher lost in Atlantic with 129 lives in Navy's worst peacetime submarine disaster. April 13 Negroes demonstrate against segregation in Birm ingham. April 23 West German Vice Chancellor Dr. Ludwig Erhard named to succeed retiring Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. April 28 Haitian police break into Dominican Embassy at Port-au-Prince, seize Haitians who sought refuge there; Hai ti breaks diplomatic relations with Dominican Republic on April 30. May 2 600 Negroes arrested in demonstrations in Birming ham, Ala. Rocky Marries May 4 Gov. Nelson A. Rocke feller of New York marries Mrs. Margaretta Fitler Mur phy in Poncantico Hills, N.Y. May 6 William Faulkner re ceives posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Rie vers." May 7-12 Rioting in Birming ham flares. President Kenne dy sends federal troops to camp near city. May IS Air Force Maj. L. Gor don Cooper Jr., 36, in longest space flight ever made by an American 22 orbits in Faith 7 capsule. June 3 Pope John XXIII dies at age 81. June 5 John Profumo resigns as Secretary of State for War in Britain after admitting he had lied to Parliament in denying "impropriety" with Christine Keeler. . , . !' June 11 Federalized National Guard troops stand by in Ala bama as Gov. George C. Wal lace allows two Negroes to enroll in University of Ala bama. June 12 Sniper kills Negro civil rights leader Medgar W. Ev ers in Jackson, Miss. June 15 Lt. Col. Valety F. By kovsky launched as 5th Soviet astronaut. Space Woman June 17 Junior Lt. Valentina V. Tereshkova, 26, becomes first woman to journey into space, joining Bykovsky in or bit. June 17 Supreme Court, in 8 to 1 ruling, decides no state or locality may require recitation of Lord's Prayer in public schools. June 21 Giovanni Battisla Car dinal Montini, 65-year-old Archbishop of Milan, elected pontiff, reigns as Pope Paul VI. July 4 China and Soviets open talks on ideological differenc es. Relations deteriorate and split widens. July 7 Five operating rail un ions reject plan by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz to re solve pending national rail road strike. Strike eventually averted by Congress. July 22 Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in first round of title rematch. July JS United States. Britain and Soviet Union reach ac cord on atom test ban in atmosphere. July 27 Massive earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia kills mora than 3.000. Aug. 7 President Kennedy's sec ond son, Patrick Bouvier Ken nedy, born; dies two days later. Train Robbery Aug. 8 Gang of masked bandits rob mail train outside London of $7 million in cash and gems in biggest robbery in history. Aug. 21 Diem government forc es raid South Vietnam pago das, arrest more than 100 Buddhist monks. Aug. 28 More than 200,000 in or derly "March on Washing ton" segregation protest. Sept. 14 Quintuplets one boy and four girls born in Aber deen, S.D., to Mrs. Andrew Fischer. First quints in U.S. history to survive infancy. Sept. 15 Bomb in Birmingham thrown at Negro church killing four Negro girls and setting off racial rioting. Two Negro boys shot to death same day. Sept. 27 Joseph M. Valaclii, Cosa Nostra member, testifies to Congress on organized crime in U.S. Sept. 29 Second session of Rom an Catholic Kcumenical Coun cil opens in Rome. Oct. 4-8 Hurricane Flora kills 4.000 in Haiti. Dodgers Take Series Oct. 6 Los Angeles Dodgers de feat New York Yankees in four straight World Series games. Oct. 7 Bobby Baker scandal breaks in Washington. Baker resigns as secretary to Dcmo- 11KUA1.I) AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon ocratic majority in Senate. Oct. 8 Prime Minister Macmil lan taken ill to hospital; re signs, is later succeeded by Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Oct. 9 Thousands die in torren tial overflow of Vaiont Dam in Italy. Oct. 13 Fighting erupts along disputed Moroccan Algerian border. Oct. 23 Soviet trade delegation Wednesday, January 1, 1964 begins talks with U.S. officials on planned sale of $250 mil lion worth of U.S. wheat to Russia. Oct. 31 Explosion at ice show kills 68 in Indianapolis. Nov. 1 South Vietnamese Pres ident Diem and brother Ngo Dinh Nhu killed in successlul military coup. Nov. SJ President Kennedy as sassinated in Dallas. PAGE 7A Nov. 22 Lyndon B. Johnson lie comes 36th President. Nov. 24 President Kennedy's suspected killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, fatally shot in Dai las jail. APPLIANCE SERVICE CALL J. W. KERNS 734 So. 6th TU 4-4197 ttttv 11 m M TIMEX WATCHES ALL STYLES ALL PRICES FOR MEN, WOMEN, TEENS & KIDS! LOCKING ALL METAL Porta- Files WITH INDEX DIVIDERS! 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