Dr. Castro visits the Soviet Union.
Kenya and Uganda become independent.
Mr. Evers is shot outside his own house.
Valentina Tereshkova, Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва, goes into space. Khrushchev delights in pointing out that with 78 hours in her logbook, she has more space time than all four of the Americans' astronauts combined. She will later die in a flying accident.
Pope John XXIII passes and Pope Paul VI is installed.
The first Clark belt satellite, Syncom, is put into position.
Surtsey is formed off Iceland.
Feel old, Michael Jordan was born in this year!
Those of us who travelled to San Francisco as little tads were mesmerized by the concept of Alcatraz out there in San Francisco's bay. Alcatraz Island was closed as a prison on the 21st of March, 1963. The name is a corruption of the Spanish word for gannet.
Our 1963 is the year of Profumo's resignation because of his, er, activities with one Christine Keeler. McMillan goes, Home comes. David Ben Gurion resigns. Ngo Dinh Diem goes and Duong Van Minh comes. Kenya becomes independent and Jomo Kenyatta takes the helm.
Dr. King makes his "I have a dream" speech this year of 1963.
The Dow is in the seven hundreds.
A.S.C.I.I. is born. COBOL is born.
Librium is pushed aside by Valium.
The "red telephone" is initiated; land line, of course! Beta test touch pad telephones are installed.
London sees the first miniskirts. The spec. calls for the skirt to end six inches above the knee.
Strontium 90 is the talk of the Laundromats.
N.A.S.A. launches a satellite this year that contains, gasp, integrated circuits.
Whisky a Go Go opens, the first disco in North America.
Nostalgia
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