28 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…
Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Malaya, the Colony of Singapore, the Crown Colony…