January 9 – A
total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of
Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963.
January 25 – A
large annular solar eclipse covered 99.5% of the Sun and a narrow path at most 19.6 km (12.2 mi). It was visible in Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Madagascar, and was the 26th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 140. Gamma had a value of -0.48984.
February 8 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to
Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.
February 10 – Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of
Kyūshū are merged and become the city of
Kitakyūshū, with a population of more than 1 million.
February 21 – The 5.6
MwMarj earthquake affects northern Libya with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 290–375 deaths and 375–500 injuries.
March 4 – In Paris, six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President
Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator,
Jean Bastien-Thiry, is executed by
firing squad several days later.
March 23 – "Dansevise" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1963 for Denmark.
April 10 – The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 mi (190 nmi; 350 km) east of
Cape Cod; all 129 aboard (112 crewmen plus yard personnel) die.
April 11 –
Pope John XXIII issues his final
encyclical, Pacem in terris, entitled On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty,[8] the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than to Roman Catholics only.
April 12 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish Straits. Although severely damaged, both vessels make it to port.
May 2 –
Berthold Seliger launches near
Cuxhaven a 3-stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany).
May 4 – The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel,
Senegal, kills 64 people.
Establishment of the
Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL; unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a
teleprinter link) is authorized by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States.[10][11]
July 19 – American test pilot
Joe Walker, flying the
X-15, reaches an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 kilometers), making it a sub-orbital spaceflight by recognized international standards.
August 14 – A huge and devastating
forest fire hits the region around
Paraná State,
Brazil. According to government documents, two million hectares (4.94 million acres) were lost to burning and 110 persons perished.[15]
August 22 – American test pilot
Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting the
X-15 to an altitude of 67.0 miles (107.8 kilometers).
Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by
Jack Ruby in
Dallas, an event seen on live national television.
Vietnam War: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting
South Vietnam militarily and economically.
December 5 – The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries near
Cuxhaven. Although these rockets land via parachute at the end of their flight and no allied laws are violated, the
Soviet Union protests this action.
Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom, as a constitutional monarchy under Sultan
Jamshid bin Abdullah.
Chuck Yeager narrowly escapes death while testing an NF-104A rocket-augmented aerospace trainer when his aircraft goes out of control at 108,700 feet (nearly 21 miles up) and crashes. He parachutes to safety at 8,500 feet after vainly battling to gain control of the powerless, rapidly falling craft. In this incident he becomes the first pilot to make an emergency ejection in the full pressure suit needed for high altitude flights.
December 25 –
İsmet İnönü of the
Republican People's Party (CHP) forms the new government of
Turkey (28th government, coalition partners; independents, İnönü has served ten times as a prime minister, this is his last government).
^Virginia Thompson (1972). West Africa's Council of the Entente. Cornell University Press. p. 86.
^Demetriade, Mihai (2015). "Istoricul Serviciului de contrainformații penitenciare (1949–1967)". Caietele CNSAS. VIII (2): 38.
^Banu, Florian (2016). "Relațiile Securității cu serviciile omoloage din țările membre ale Pactului de la Varșovia". In Banu, Florian; Țăranu, Liviu (eds.). Securitatea (1948–1989). Monografie. Editura Cetatea de Scaun. p. 335.
ISBN978-606-537-357-0.
^Kahn, David (1996). The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet. Simon and Schuster. p. 715.
^"The Great Escape, premiere". The Times. London. June 20, 1963. p. 2.
^Williams, Simon (1990). Shakespeare on the German stage. Cambridge England New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 351.
ISBN978-0-521-34386-2.
^Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 372, 385.
ISBN0-19-505286-2.
^Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Taylor & Francis. 2014. p. 312.
^Mark Dunton (2021). Images of The National Archives: Prime Ministers of the 20th Century. Pen & Sword Books Limited. p. 59.
ISBN978-1-5267-2952-1.
^Kiselev, A. I. (2003). Astronautics: summary and prospects. Wien London: Springer. p. 538.
ISBN978-3-211-83890-7.
^Billy C. Mossman; M. W. Stark (1972). The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funerals, 1921-1969. Department of the Army. p. 401.
^"Dave Koz | Artist". Recording Academy Grammy Awards. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
^LastName, FirstName (2019). Chase's calendar of events. the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 222.
ISBN978-1-64143-316-7.
^"Beata Szydlo". European Parliament. April 15, 1963. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
^Ralph M. Newman; Norm N. Nite (1974). Rock on: The modern years, 1964-present. T. Y. Crowell Company. p. 360.
^LastName, FirstName (2020). Chase's calendar of events 2021: the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 230.
ISBN978-1-64143-424-9.
^Chase's calendar of events 2021: the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2020. p. 243.
ISBN978-1-64143-424-9.
^Bloom, Clive (2008). Bestsellers: popular fiction since 1900. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 322.
ISBN978-0-230-53688-3.
^Prown, Pete (1997). Legends of rock guitar: the essential reference of rock's greatest guitarists. Milwaukee, WI: H. Leonard. p. 224.
ISBN978-0-7935-4042-6.
^Paxton, John (1974). The statesman's year-book: statistical and historical annual of the states of the world for the year 1974-1975. London: Macmillan. p. 760.
ISBN978-0-230-27103-6.
^LastName, FirstName (2019). Chase's calendar of events. the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 582.
ISBN978-1-64143-316-7.
^Williams, Herbert (1997). John Cowper Powys. Bridgend, Wales Chester Springs, PA: Seren U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions. p. 156.
ISBN978-1-85411-196-8.
^Demastes, William (1995). American playwrights, 1880-1945: a research and production sourcebook. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 311.
ISBN978-0-313-28638-4.
January 9 – A
total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of
Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963.
January 25 – A
large annular solar eclipse covered 99.5% of the Sun and a narrow path at most 19.6 km (12.2 mi). It was visible in Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Madagascar, and was the 26th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 140. Gamma had a value of -0.48984.
February 8 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to
Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.
February 10 – Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of
Kyūshū are merged and become the city of
Kitakyūshū, with a population of more than 1 million.
February 21 – The 5.6
MwMarj earthquake affects northern Libya with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 290–375 deaths and 375–500 injuries.
March 4 – In Paris, six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President
Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator,
Jean Bastien-Thiry, is executed by
firing squad several days later.
March 23 – "Dansevise" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1963 for Denmark.
April 10 – The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sinks 220 mi (190 nmi; 350 km) east of
Cape Cod; all 129 aboard (112 crewmen plus yard personnel) die.
April 11 –
Pope John XXIII issues his final
encyclical, Pacem in terris, entitled On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty,[8] the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than to Roman Catholics only.
April 12 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish Straits. Although severely damaged, both vessels make it to port.
May 2 –
Berthold Seliger launches near
Cuxhaven a 3-stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany).
May 4 – The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel,
Senegal, kills 64 people.
Establishment of the
Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL; unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a
teleprinter link) is authorized by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States.[10][11]
July 19 – American test pilot
Joe Walker, flying the
X-15, reaches an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 kilometers), making it a sub-orbital spaceflight by recognized international standards.
August 14 – A huge and devastating
forest fire hits the region around
Paraná State,
Brazil. According to government documents, two million hectares (4.94 million acres) were lost to burning and 110 persons perished.[15]
August 22 – American test pilot
Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting the
X-15 to an altitude of 67.0 miles (107.8 kilometers).
Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by
Jack Ruby in
Dallas, an event seen on live national television.
Vietnam War: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting
South Vietnam militarily and economically.
December 5 – The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries near
Cuxhaven. Although these rockets land via parachute at the end of their flight and no allied laws are violated, the
Soviet Union protests this action.
Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom, as a constitutional monarchy under Sultan
Jamshid bin Abdullah.
Chuck Yeager narrowly escapes death while testing an NF-104A rocket-augmented aerospace trainer when his aircraft goes out of control at 108,700 feet (nearly 21 miles up) and crashes. He parachutes to safety at 8,500 feet after vainly battling to gain control of the powerless, rapidly falling craft. In this incident he becomes the first pilot to make an emergency ejection in the full pressure suit needed for high altitude flights.
December 25 –
İsmet İnönü of the
Republican People's Party (CHP) forms the new government of
Turkey (28th government, coalition partners; independents, İnönü has served ten times as a prime minister, this is his last government).
^Virginia Thompson (1972). West Africa's Council of the Entente. Cornell University Press. p. 86.
^Demetriade, Mihai (2015). "Istoricul Serviciului de contrainformații penitenciare (1949–1967)". Caietele CNSAS. VIII (2): 38.
^Banu, Florian (2016). "Relațiile Securității cu serviciile omoloage din țările membre ale Pactului de la Varșovia". In Banu, Florian; Țăranu, Liviu (eds.). Securitatea (1948–1989). Monografie. Editura Cetatea de Scaun. p. 335.
ISBN978-606-537-357-0.
^Kahn, David (1996). The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet. Simon and Schuster. p. 715.
^"The Great Escape, premiere". The Times. London. June 20, 1963. p. 2.
^Williams, Simon (1990). Shakespeare on the German stage. Cambridge England New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 351.
ISBN978-0-521-34386-2.
^Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. New York City: Oxford University Press. pp. 372, 385.
ISBN0-19-505286-2.
^Heads of States and Governments Since 1945. Taylor & Francis. 2014. p. 312.
^Mark Dunton (2021). Images of The National Archives: Prime Ministers of the 20th Century. Pen & Sword Books Limited. p. 59.
ISBN978-1-5267-2952-1.
^Kiselev, A. I. (2003). Astronautics: summary and prospects. Wien London: Springer. p. 538.
ISBN978-3-211-83890-7.
^Billy C. Mossman; M. W. Stark (1972). The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funerals, 1921-1969. Department of the Army. p. 401.
^"Dave Koz | Artist". Recording Academy Grammy Awards. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
^LastName, FirstName (2019). Chase's calendar of events. the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 222.
ISBN978-1-64143-316-7.
^"Beata Szydlo". European Parliament. April 15, 1963. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
^Ralph M. Newman; Norm N. Nite (1974). Rock on: The modern years, 1964-present. T. Y. Crowell Company. p. 360.
^LastName, FirstName (2020). Chase's calendar of events 2021: the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 230.
ISBN978-1-64143-424-9.
^Chase's calendar of events 2021: the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2020. p. 243.
ISBN978-1-64143-424-9.
^Bloom, Clive (2008). Bestsellers: popular fiction since 1900. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 322.
ISBN978-0-230-53688-3.
^Prown, Pete (1997). Legends of rock guitar: the essential reference of rock's greatest guitarists. Milwaukee, WI: H. Leonard. p. 224.
ISBN978-0-7935-4042-6.
^Paxton, John (1974). The statesman's year-book: statistical and historical annual of the states of the world for the year 1974-1975. London: Macmillan. p. 760.
ISBN978-0-230-27103-6.
^LastName, FirstName (2019). Chase's calendar of events. the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 582.
ISBN978-1-64143-316-7.
^Williams, Herbert (1997). John Cowper Powys. Bridgend, Wales Chester Springs, PA: Seren U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions. p. 156.
ISBN978-1-85411-196-8.
^Demastes, William (1995). American playwrights, 1880-1945: a research and production sourcebook. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. p. 311.
ISBN978-0-313-28638-4.