35 events found for 1963
The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak (first flag pictured), the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day.
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised…
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South…
American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on…
The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the…
The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing…
The 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan,…
Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Malaya, the Colony of Singapore, the Crown Colony…
Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo…
The University of East Anglia (coat of arms featured) was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a…
Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of…
The U.S. suspended the Commercial Import Program, its main economic support for South Vietnam, in response to the…
The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those…
The first cat in space, later known as Félicette, launched aboard a French Véronique rocket.