Notable Historical Events - 1963
1963 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank |
Jan 1 |
WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting |
Jan 3 |
WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 4 |
Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon |
Jan 5 |
"Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances |
Jan 5 |
"Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances |
Jan 5 |
San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game |
Jan 6 |
"Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC |
Jan 6 |
"Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances |
Jan 7 |
1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents |
Jan 7 |
The rift between Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell and head coach Paul Brown reaches a boiling point, and Brown is fired |
Jan 8 |
"Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art |
Jan 8 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga |
Jan 9 |
Mao Zedong writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" |
Jan 11 |
1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA |
Jan 11 |
Beatles release "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why" |
Jan 12 |
"Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1 |
Jan 12 |
Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia v England |
Jan 13 |
AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 21-14 |
Jan 13 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20 |
Jan 14 |
George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" |
Jan 16 |
Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb |
Jan 16 |
Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," premieres |
Jan 17 |
Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km |
Jan 17 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 67 points vs LA |
Jan 18 |
Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59) |
Jan 18 |
Al Davis becomes the head coach and general manager of the Oakland Raiders |
Jan 22 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament |
Jan 22 |
The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. |
Jan 24 |
Buddy Rogers & Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ & Thesz becomes NWA champ |
Jan 26 |
"Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 543 perfs |
Jan 26 |
Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone |
Jan 27 |
Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec |
Jan 27 |
Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 28 |
-34°F (-37°C), Cynthiana, Kentucky (state record) |
Jan 29 |
Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football Hall of Fame |
Jan 31 |
Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby" |
Feb 1 |
Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda |
Feb 2 |
Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard) |
Feb 3 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
Feb 5 |
Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars |
Feb 5 |
Soviet lunar probe failure |
Feb 8 |
1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) |
Feb 8 |
AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs |
Feb 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 9 |
1st flight of Boeing 727 jet |
Feb 9 |
7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7") |
Feb 10 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
Feb 10 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon |
Feb 10 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz |
Feb 11 |
Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album |
Feb 11 |
CIA Domestic Operations Division created (pretty scary!) |
Feb 11 |
Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres. |
Feb 12 |
Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron |
Feb 14 |
US launches communications satellite Syncom 1 |
Feb 15 |
1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) |
Feb 15 |
Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else |
Feb 16 |
1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US) |
Feb 16 |
Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me" |
Feb 16 |
C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down |
Feb 16 |
North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson |
Feb 17 |
Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8 |
Feb 19 |
Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize |
Feb 19 |
USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba |
Feb 20 |
End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson |
Feb 20 |
Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract |
Feb 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 22 |
Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs) |
Feb 25 |
Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me" |
Feb 27 |
Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000 |
Mar 1 |
200,000 French mine workers strike |
Mar 3 |
Senegal adopts constitution |
Mar 5 |
Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl" |
Mar 8 |
Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria |
Mar 9 |
Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez |
Mar 10 |
Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training |
Mar 10 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse |
Mar 11 |
Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain |
Mar 12 |
Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold |
Mar 13 |
2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska |
Mar 13 |
Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in NYC |
Mar 13 |
Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations |
Mar 14 |
SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists |
Mar 15 |
WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting |
Mar 17 |
Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game |
Mar 17 |
Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975) |
Mar 17 |
Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese |
Mar 18 |
"Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances |
Mar 18 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
Mar 18 |
WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 20 |
1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC) |
Mar 21 |
Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed |
Mar 21 |
David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London |
Mar 22 |
Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me" |
Mar 22 |
Brit Min of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler |
Mar 22 |
Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st & only Heisman Trophy winner |
Mar 23 |
25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cin 60-58 (OT) |
Mar 23 |
Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter," premieres in Berlin |
Mar 25 |
KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Mar 27 |
Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. |
Mar 28 |
AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets |
Mar 29 |
Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone" |
Mar 30 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
Mar 31 |
LA ends streetcar service after 90 years |
Apr 1 |
NY Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000 |
Apr 1 |
NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike |
Apr 1 |
Soap operas "General Hospital" & "Doctors" premier on TV |
Apr 2 |
Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km) |
Apr 2 |
USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km |
Apr 5 |
Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me) |
Apr 5 |
Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa |
Apr 7 |
27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 |
Apr 7 |
Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic |
Apr 7 |
Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors |
Apr 8 |
35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win |
Apr 8 |
Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000 |
Apr 9 |
Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen |
Apr 10 |
USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston |
Apr 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 11 |
John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity & liberty |
Apr 11 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 11 |
Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty) |
Apr 12 |
Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK |
Apr 12 |
Birmingham police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators |
Apr 13 |
Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit |
Apr 13 |
Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game |
Apr 14 |
George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones" |
Apr 15 |
"Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Apr 18 |
"Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Apr 18 |
Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant |
Apr 18 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 19 |
"Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances |
Apr 19 |
67th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:18:58 |
Apr 20 |
"Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances |
Apr 20 |
-30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda |
Apr 21 |
Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time |
Apr 21 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open |
Apr 21 |
The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time. |
Apr 22 |
Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada |
Apr 23 |
"She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 302 perfs |
Apr 23 |
Jerry Bock & S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me" premieres in NYC |
Apr 24 |
17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 27 |
"Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname |
Apr 27 |
Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow |
Apr 28 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Apr 28 |
17th Tony Awards: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" win |
Apr 29 |
KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KPAT |
May 1 |
1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest |
May 1 |
Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth |
May 3 |
Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat |
May 4 |
89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8 |
May 4 |
Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game |
May 5 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
May 6 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) |
May 7 |
Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ |
May 7 |
SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km)) |
May 8 |
"Dr No" premieres in US |
May 8 |
JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression |
May 9 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 10 |
Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison |
May 11 |
"Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2 |
May 11 |
LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats NY Giants, 8-0 |
May 11 |
Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama |
May 12 |
Bob Dylan walks out of the "Ed Sullivan Show" |
May 12 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open |
May 12 |
Race riot in Birmingham, Alabama |
May 14 |
Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations |
May 15 |
Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched |
May 15 |
Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer) |
May 15 |
Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
May 15 |
5th Grammy Awards: I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Robert Goulet wins |
May 16 |
"Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances |
May 16 |
Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury |
May 17 |
Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ |
May 17 |
Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1 |
May 17 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
May 18 |
"Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances |
May 18 |
"If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1 |
May 18 |
89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2 |
May 19 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
May 20 |
Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia |
May 22 |
A C Milan wins 8th Europe Cup 1 at London |
May 22 |
Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured |
May 22 |
Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade |
May 23 |
NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 |
May 24 |
1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely |
May 25 |
"Hot Spot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 43 performances |
May 25 |
Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game |
May 25 |
Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket |
May 25 |
Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia |
May 26 |
15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth win |
May 26 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
May 26 |
Organization of African Unity forms |
May 26 |
Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a doubleheader |
May 27 |
Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya |
May 28 |
Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed |
May 28 |
Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India) |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Parnelli Jones wins in 3:29:35.365 (230.357 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
"El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17 |
Jun 1 |
Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya |
Jun 2 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Jun 3 |
A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101. |
Jun 4 |
1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio |
Jun 4 |
British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler scandal |
Jun 5 |
Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina |
Jun 5 |
State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested |
Jun 6 |
Gasunie established |
Jun 7 |
1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on" |
Jun 8 |
"Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances |
Jun 8 |
95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2 |
Jun 8 |
American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes |
Jun 9 |
1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0 |
Jun 9 |
Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open |
Jun 9 |
Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show" |
Jun 9 |
Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game |
Jun 9 |
Equal Pay Act enacted |
Jun 9 |
Movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY |
Jun 10 |
US President JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women |
Jun 11 |
Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama |
Jun 11 |
Greek government of Karamanlis resigns |
Jun 11 |
US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong & that it is "time to act" |
Jun 12 |
"Cleopatra" premieres in NYC |
Jun 13 |
Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut |
Jun 14 |
NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR |
Jun 14 |
Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days |
Jun 15 |
"Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 perfs |
Jun 15 |
"Sukiyaki" hits #1 |
Jun 15 |
Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28) |
Jun 15 |
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns |
Jun 15 |
SF Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0 |
Jun 16 |
Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister |
Jun 16 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open |
Jun 16 |
Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 |
Jun 17 |
British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair |
Jun 17 |
Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools |
Jun 18 |
3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school |
Jun 19 |
2 Russian space missions return to Earth |
Jun 19 |
Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen |
Jun 19 |
Greek government of Pipinolis forms |
Jun 19 |
Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth |
Jun 20 |
1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2 |
Jun 20 |
Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income |
Jun 20 |
US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line" |
Jun 21 |
Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII |
Jun 22 |
"Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips" |
Jun 23 |
63rd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 293 at The Country Club Mass |
Jun 23 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
Jun 23 |
NY Mets Jimmy Piersall hits his 100th HR, he circles bases backwards |
Jun 23 |
President Kennedy tours Western Europe |
Jun 24 |
1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London |
Jun 24 |
Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
Jun 24 |
Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain |
Jun 25 |
Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies |
Jun 25 |
JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt |
Jun 25 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested |
Jun 25 |
Curnick Ndlovu, South African Trade Unionist and African National Congress Leader, is arrested |
Jun 26 |
Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government |
Jun 26 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV |
Jun 26 |
US President John Kennedy visits West Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner";or is it "I am a doughnut") |
Jun 27 |
Bill J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon & McCartney "I Call Your Name" |
Jun 27 |
US President John Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland |
Jun 27 |
USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m |
Jun 27 |
Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games |
Jun 28 |
Belaunde Terry inaugurated as pres of Peru |
Jun 28 |
Khrushchev visits East-Berlin |
Jun 29 |
"Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 257 performances |
Jun 29 |
Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts |
Jun 29 |
SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien |
Jun 30 |
Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church |
Jun 30 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open |
Jun 30 |
Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo. |
Jun 30 |
International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting because of its apartheid policies |
Jul 1 |
Beatles record "She Loves You" & "I'll Get You" |
Jul 1 |
US President Kennedy arrives in Rome |
Jul 1 |
US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code |
Jul 1 |
ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail. |
Jul 2 |
Giant Willie Mays' HR in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves |
Jul 2 |
Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings |
Jul 3 |
In New Zealand, a National Airways Corporation Dakota DC-3 crashes in the Kaimai Ranges; all 23 passengers and crew are killed in what is still New Zealand's worst internal civil aviation accident |
Jul 5 |
1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87 |
Jul 6 |
70th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64) |
Jul 6 |
77th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64) |
Jul 6 |
South African workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested |
Jul 7 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open |
Jul 8 |
Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move KC A's to Oakland |
Jul 8 |
US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba |
Jul 9 |
34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve |
Jul 9 |
All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants) |
Jul 9 |
Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
Jul 9 |
Federation of Malaysia forms |
Jul 11 |
South-African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested |
Jul 13 |
Early Wynn, wins his 300th & last game at 43 |
Jul 13 |
Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft |
Jul 14 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open |
Jul 15 |
KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 15 |
Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding |
Jul 16 |
Amazon river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record) |
Jul 17 |
Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden |
Jul 18 |
Failed military coup in Syria |
Jul 18 |
The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum |
Jul 19 |
NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km |
Jul 19 |
Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300 |
Jul 20 |
17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC |
Jul 20 |
18th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills |
Jul 20 |
Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
Jul 20 |
Riots break out at Mt Eden Prison, Auckland, New Zealand |
Jul 21 |
45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas |
Jul 22 |
Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles" |
Jul 22 |
Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jul 24 |
124 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
Jul 24 |
Dutch government of Marijnen forms |
Jul 25 |
Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations |
Jul 25 |
US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty |
Jul 26 |
Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+ |
Jul 26 |
US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched |
Jul 26 |
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan. |
Jul 27 |
Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
Jul 27 |
General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria |
Jul 28 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
Jul 30 |
British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow |
Jul 31 |
Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina |
Jul 31 |
Cleve ties record of 4 consecutive HRS (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown) |
Jul 31 |
Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, & Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels) |
Aug 1 |
Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale |
Aug 1 |
Germany FR annexes Elten village |
Aug 1 |
WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 2 |
30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000) |
Aug 3 |
"No Strings" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 580 performances |
Aug 3 |
Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda" |
Aug 3 |
Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool |
Aug 4 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
Aug 5 |
Britain, USA & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty |
Aug 5 |
Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH |
Aug 7 |
Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland |
Aug 8 |
Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million) |
Aug 8 |
Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie", radio stations label it obscene |
Aug 8 |
LA Dodgers F Howard & B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
Aug 8 |
Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ |
Aug 9 |
Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres |
Aug 9 |
NY Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends |
Aug 11 |
Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?" |
Aug 11 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
Aug 11 |
Four ANC political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in South Africa |
Aug 12 |
Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization |
Aug 12 |
Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year |
Aug 13 |
US Customs agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
Aug 13 |
Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382 |
Aug 15 |
Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville |
Aug 16 |
Independence is restored to Dominican Republic |
Aug 17 |
Jim Hickman becomes 1st NY Met to hit for cycle |
Aug 17 |
Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief |
Aug 18 |
James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi |
Aug 18 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
Aug 19 |
NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City |
Aug 21 |
Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win |
Aug 21 |
Martial law declared in S Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas |
Aug 22 |
NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km) |
Aug 22 |
The X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m, 67 miles) |
Aug 23 |
Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK |
Aug 23 |
Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By" |
Aug 23 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 24 |
1st 200 metre freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58) |
Aug 24 |
John Pennel is first person to pole-vault 17' |
Aug 25 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open |
Aug 25 |
Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds & given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding |
Aug 26 |
W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy |
Aug 28 |
200,000 march and demonstrate for African American civil rights in Washington, DC |
Aug 28 |
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens |
Aug 28 |
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC |
Aug 29 |
Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH |
Aug 30 |
Hotline communication link between Pentagon (Washington) and the Klemlin (Moscow) installed |
Sep 1 |
Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot |
Sep 1 |
St Louis Cards pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate |
Sep 2 |
Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS |
Sep 2 |
CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes |
Sep 2 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament |
Sep 4 |
Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board. |
Sep 6 |
Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in Major League baseball history |
Sep 6 |
Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records |
Sep 6 |
The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded. |
Sep 7 |
WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 7 |
American Bandstand moves to California, & airs once a week on Saturday |
Sep 7 |
Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton Ohio |
Sep 8 |
77th US Women's Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64) |
Sep 8 |
83rd US Men's Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (75 64 62) |
Sep 8 |
Algerian population accepts constitution |
Sep 8 |
Braves Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 20-win seasons |
Sep 8 |
Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys |
Sep 8 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open |
Sep 9 |
Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools |
Sep 10 |
20 black students entered public schools in Alabama |
Sep 10 |
Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0 |
Sep 10 |
Stan Musial hits a HR in his 1st at bat as a grandfather |
Sep 11 |
Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage |
Sep 12 |
WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 13 |
"Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV |
Sep 13 |
Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yanks 28th pennant |
Sep 13 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 14 |
Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, SD, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls & a boy |
Sep 15 |
Church bombed in Birmingham AL, kills 4 African-American girls |
Sep 15 |
Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appear in SF outfield for 1 inn |
Sep 15 |
Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria |
Sep 15 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
Sep 15 |
WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 16 |
"Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV |
Sep 16 |
Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo & Sarawak |
Sep 16 |
WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 17 |
"Fugitive" premieres on ABC TV |
Sep 17 |
Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32 |
Sep 18 |
Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 |
Sep 18 |
USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia |
Sep 19 |
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. |
Sep 20 |
JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon |
Sep 22 |
Czechoslovakian premier Široký deposed by Josef Lenart |
Sep 22 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open |
Sep 23 |
Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State |
Sep 23 |
WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 24 |
Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards |
Sep 24 |
US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing |
Sep 26 |
1st edition of NYC Review of Books |
Sep 26 |
Lee Harvey Oswald travels on Continental Trailways bus to Mexico |
Sep 27 |
At 10:59 AM census clock, records US population at 190,000,000 |
Sep 27 |
Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico |
Sep 28 |
"King Leonardo" cartoon last airs on NBC-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Little Deuce Coupe" by The Beach Boys peaks at #15 |
Sep 28 |
"Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells peaks at #1 |
Sep 28 |
"New Phil Silvers Show" debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Nick Teen & Al K Hall" by Rolf Harris peaks at #95 |
Sep 28 |
"Sally, Go 'Round The Roses" by Jaynetts peaks at #2 |
Sep 28 |
"Shari Lewis Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Surfer Joe" by Surfaris peaks at #62 |
Sep 28 |
"Tennessee Tuxedo" cartoon debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 28 |
Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yds |
Sep 28 |
Murray The K, a NY DJ plays "She Loves You" on the radio |
Sep 29 |
"Judy Garland Show" debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 29 |
"My Favorite Martian" starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV |
Sep 29 |
2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome |
Sep 29 |
Cardinal's celebrate Stan Musial Day in St Louis, for Stan Musial's final game, where he hits his 3,629th & 3,630th HRs |
Sep 29 |
Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game |
Sep 29 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
Sep 29 |
Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council |
Sep 29 |
Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros) |
Sep 30 |
"Student Gypsy" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 16 performances |
Sep 30 |
56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office |
Oct 1 |
1st time since 1910 no AL player, played in every game |
Oct 1 |
Nigeria becomes a republic within Commonwealth |
Oct 2 |
Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees |
Oct 2 |
W German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to USSR |
Oct 3 |
"Here's Love" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 338 performances |
Oct 3 |
Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured |
Oct 4 |
-8] Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti |
Oct 4 |
Gambia achieves full internal self-government |
Oct 5 |
17th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto |
Oct 5 |
Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park |
Oct 5 |
Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour |
Oct 6 |
Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show" |
Oct 6 |
LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series |
Oct 7 |
Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary |
Oct 7 |
Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190 |
Oct 7 |
JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty |
Oct 8 |
Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya |
Oct 9 |
Landslide into Vaiont Dam empties lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) |
Oct 9 |
British premier Harold MacMillan resigns |
Oct 9 |
Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die |
Oct 9 |
French air force gets first nuclear weapons |
Oct 9 |
Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000 |
Oct 10 |
Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die |
Oct 10 |
Netherland population hits 12,000,000 |
Oct 10 |
France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia. |
Oct 12 |
"Student Gypsy" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 16 performances |
Oct 12 |
Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel |
Oct 12 |
At 4 am, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck |
Oct 13 |
"Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium |
Oct 13 |
15th Ryder Cup: US beats 23-9 at East Lake Country Club (Atlanta, Georgia, US) |
Oct 13 |
9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
Oct 14 |
Algeria & Morocco border conflict |
Oct 14 |
WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (ABC) begins |
Oct 15 |
Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor |
Oct 16 |
2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral |
Oct 16 |
NY newspaper "Mirror" last edition |
Oct 17 |
"Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 82 performances |
Oct 18 |
IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics |
Oct 19 |
Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
Oct 20 |
Alec Douglas-Home forms British government |
Oct 20 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
Oct 20 |
Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds |
Oct 20 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open |
Oct 20 |
South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy |
Oct 20 |
WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 22 |
225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest |
Oct 22 |
BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board. |
Oct 23 |
Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" premieres in NYC |
Oct 24 |
"110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 perfs |
Oct 24 |
KRO shows first episode of Bonanza |
Oct 24 |
Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award |
Oct 25 |
Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas |
Oct 25 |
Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden |
Oct 26 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada |
Oct 27 |
Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW v Qld at Gabba |
Oct 27 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament |
Oct 29 |
"Meet the Beatles" booklet is published |
Oct 30 |
Morocco & Algeria sign cease fire |
Oct 30 |
Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award |
Oct 31 |
Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles & their fans at London Airport |
Oct 31 |
J. Edgar Hoover's last meeting with President John F Kennedy |
Oct 31 |
Leaking propane gas explodes kills 64 at 'Holiday on Ice' (Indiana) |
Nov 2 |
"Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances |
Nov 2 |
Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC v E African XI |
Nov 3 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open |
Nov 4 |
John Lennon utters his infamous "rattle your jewellery" line at a Royal Variety Performance in London |
Nov 5 |
US VP Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands |
Nov 7 |
Carole Joan Crawford, 20, wins Miss World |
Nov 7 |
NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP |
Nov 7 |
Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days. |
Nov 9 |
"Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 264 performances |
Nov 9 |
450 die in a coal-dust explosion & 160 die in train crash (Japan) |
Nov 10 |
Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545 |
Nov 10 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open |
Nov 11 |
Brian Epstein & Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for The Beatles |
Nov 11 |
Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record |
Nov 12 |
Train crash in Japan, kills 164 |
Nov 16 |
Toledo, OH newspaper strike began |
Nov 16 |
Touch-tone telephone introduced |
Nov 17 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational |
Nov 18 |
Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone |
Nov 18 |
Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under River Thames opens |
Nov 18 |
King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco |
Nov 21 |
JFK flies to Texas |
Nov 22 |
The Beatles release their second album "With the Beatles" in UK |
Nov 22 |
Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy |
Nov 22 |
American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas |
Nov 23 |
"Doctor Who" the long-running British sci-fi series debuts |
Nov 23 |
"Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater NYC after 24 perfs |
Nov 23 |
Horatio Alger Society founded |
Nov 23 |
JFK's body lay in repose in East Room of White House |
Nov 23 |
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Nov 25 |
JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery |
Nov 26 |
29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB) |
Nov 26 |
Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 26 |
Explorer 18 launched |
Nov 27 |
The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg. |
Nov 28 |
1st million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
Nov 28 |
Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 in UK record chart |
Nov 28 |
Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ |
Nov 28 |
WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 29 |
Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
Nov 29 |
LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK |
Nov 29 |
Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal, Canada |
Nov 30 |
51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10 |
Nov 30 |
Martin Walser's "Überlebensgross Herr Krott" premieres in Stuttgart |
Dec 1 |
NY Jets 1st shutout, beat KC 17-0 |
Dec 1 |
Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union |
Dec 2 |
1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km |
Dec 2 |
ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965 |
Dec 4 |
Aldo Moro forms Italian government (1963-1968) |
Dec 4 |
Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council |
Dec 6 |
Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans |
Dec 6 |
Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba |
Dec 7 |
Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans |
Dec 7 |
Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game. |
Dec 8 |
"Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 perfs |
Dec 8 |
Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan Jr wins LPGA Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Golf |
Dec 8 |
Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with 81 killed. Only case of lighting causing air crash |
Dec 9 |
Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped |
Dec 10 |
6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on Andy Williams Show |
Dec 10 |
Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain |
Dec 10 |
Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the technology of high polymers |
Dec 12 |
Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron |
Dec 12 |
Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped |
Dec 12 |
Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK |
Dec 13 |
Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles |
Dec 14 |
Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
Dec 17 |
Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea |
Dec 17 |
West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules |
Dec 18 |
Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6) |
Dec 18 |
Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow |
Dec 20 |
Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners |
Dec 20 |
Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville |
Dec 20 |
Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins |
Dec 22 |
Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49) |
Dec 22 |
Official 30-day mourning period for President John F Kennedy ends |
Dec 22 |
Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives. |
Dec 23 |
Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig" |
Dec 23 |
Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die |
Dec 24 |
Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus |
Dec 25 |
Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released |
Dec 26 |
"Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances |
Dec 26 |
Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There" |
Dec 26 |
US furnishes cereal to USSR |
Dec 28 |
"Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances |
Dec 28 |
"Jennie" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances |
Dec 28 |
Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song" |
Dec 29 |
52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2) |
Dec 30 |
"Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV |
Dec 30 |
Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar |
Dec 30 |
Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
Dec 31 |
Chicago Bears win NFL championship |
Dec 31 |
Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years) |
Dec 31 |
Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time |
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