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-
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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.
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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.
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