The Year 1963
History and Politics
De Gaulle objects to Britian's entry into Common Market; Britian rejected.
Profumo crisis; the Secretary of State for War makes a personal statement in Commons;
he resigns, admitting unfaithfulness of statement; Stephen Ward found guilty of
living on immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and others, commits suicide.
Winston Churchill becomes honorary citizen of the US.
Roits, beatings by Whites and police, and maltreatment by officials mark
civil rights demonstrations in Brimingham, ALA.,culminating in arrest of
Martin Luther King and in President Kennedy calling out of 3,000 troops.
United Arab Republic, Syria, and Iraq agree to Union.
Fidel Castro in USSR.
US and USSR agree on "hot line" from the Whitehouse to the Kremlin.
Nuclear testing ban is signed by US, USSR, and Great britian.
200,000 "Freedom Marchers" Blacks and Whites, descend on Washington to demonstrate.
Adenauer resigns as W. Germany Chancellor and is succeeded by Ludwig Erhard.
Buddhist-led military coup overthrows government of S. Vietnam; US sends financial and economic aid.
Macmillam resigns as Brit. Prime Minister and is succeeded by Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
on Nov. 22; Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as president.
Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed by Jack Ruby as America watches on TV.
Kenya becomes independent republic within Commonwealth.
Science, Technology, Growth
Anti-xi-zeno discovered.
Russ. Valentina Tereshkova makes a 3 day flight in space, becoming the first female astronaut.
US astronaut Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Atlas rocket.
Hodgkin and Eccles: work on the transmission of nerve impulses.
Friction welding invented.
J. Robert Oppenheimer receives Enrico Fermi medal for his work as
atomic scientist, despite his declassified status since 1954.
Nobel Prize for Physics: E P Wigner (US) for his contributions to nuclear and theoretical physics; Maria
Goppert-Mayer (US) & J H D Jensen (Ger) for their discoveries in the shell structure of atomic nuclei.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry: K Ziegler (Ger) & G Natta (Ital) for producing complex molecules from simple carbons.
T A Matthews ans A R Sandage discover quasars.
Dr. Michael De Bakey (Amer) first uses an artificial heart to take
over the circulation of a patient's blood during surgery.
Daily Life
Earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia, kills about 1,100.
Greek Liner Lakonia sinks in North Atlantic; 150 lives lost.
Coldest Jan. and Feb. since 1740 strikes Britian.
Major religions: 890 million Christians; 200 million Buddhists; 365 million Hundus; 13 million Jews.
Arnold Palmer again top money winner in golf with a total of $128,230.
"Credibility gap" becomes evident between the truth and official reports of events in Cuba, Vietnam, and elswhere.
By Feb., US unemployment reaches 6.1%.
Univ. of S. California defeats Wisconsin in Rose Bowl, 42-37.
Stanley Cup hockey is won by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
"Chateaugay" B. Baez up, wins Belmont and Kentucky Berby.
US tennis team wins Davis Cup defeating Australia, 3-2.
Mikhail Botvinnik (USSR) loses the world chess championship to Tigran Petrosian.
Sonny Liston retains his heavyweight boxing brown by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round.
Los Angeles (NL) defeats New York (AL) in Worls Series, 4-0.
A hurricane and resulting tsunamis leave about 22,000 dead in E. Pakistan;
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