Events

January

January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the ye ...

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Bogle–Chandler case The Bogle–Chandler case refers to the mysterious deaths of Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler on the banks of the Lane Cove River in Sydney, Australia on 1 January 1963. The case became famous because of the circumstances in which the bodies ...

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research. CSIRO works with leading organisations around the world. From its headquarters in Canberra, CSIRO ...

scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the

Lane Cove River The Lane Cove River, a northern tributary of the Parramatta River, is a tide-dominated, drowned valley estuary west of Sydney Harbour, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The river is a tributary of the Parramatta River, winding thro ...

, Sydney, Australia. *

January 2 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. * 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire ...

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Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...

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Battle of Ap Bac The Battle of Ấp Bắc was a major battle fought on 2 January 1963 during the Vietnam War, in Định Tường Province (now part of Tiền Giang Province), South Vietnam. On 28 December 1962, US intelligence detected the presence of a radio ...

: The

Viet Cong , , war = the Vietnam War , image = FNL Flag.svg , caption = The flag of the Viet Cong, adopted in 1960, is a variation on the flag of North Vietnam. Sometimes the lower stripe was green. , active ...

win their first major victory. *

January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. *1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin ...

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total penumbral lunar eclipse A total penumbral lunar eclipse is a lunar eclipse that occurs when the Moon becomes completely immersed in the penumbral cone of the Earth without touching the umbra. The path for the Moon to pass within the penumbra and outside the umbra is ve ...

is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of

Lunar Saros 114 Saros cycle series 114 for lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital ...

. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. *

January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the raci ...

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1963 Togolese coup d'état The 1963 Togolese coup d'état was a Togolese Armed Forces, military Coup d'état, coup that occurred in the West African country of Togo on 13 January 1963. The coup leaders — notably Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma (later Gnassingbé Ey ...

: A military coup in

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

results in the installation of coup leader

Emmanuel Bodjollé Emmanuel Bodjollé (born 1928) is a Togolese former military officer who was Chairman of the nine-member Insurrection Committee that overthrew the government of President Sylvanus Olympio on 13 January 1963. Biography Bodjollé, a former maste ...

as president. *

January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...

– A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the

annular solar eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...

, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. *

January 19 Events Pre-1600 * 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. * 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender a ...

– Soviet spy

Gheorghe Pintilie Gheorghe Pintilie (born Panteley Timofiy Bodnarenko, ua, Пантелей Тимофій Боднаренко; also rendered as Pintilie Bodnarenco, nicknamed Pantiușa; November 9, 1902 – August 21, 1985) was a Soviet and Romanian intelligence ...

is removed from his position as Deputy Interior Minister of the

Romanian People's Republic The Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian Peopl ...

, as a step in ensuring Romania's political independence; the Workers' Party

Politburo A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states. Names The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contracti ...

discusses way of neutralizing "Soviet intelligence networks ..which Gheorghe Pintilie had coordinated." *

January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor ('' Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. * 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw ...

– France and West Germany sign the

Élysée Treaty The Élysée Treaty was a treaty of friendship between France and West Germany, signed by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on 22 January 1963 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. With the signing of this treaty, Germa ...

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January 25 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...

– 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 Saros cycle series 140 for solar eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during a ...

. Gamma had a value of -0.48984. *

January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. * 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. * 1564 – The Council of T ...

– The

Australia Day Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove and raising of the Union Flag by Arthur Phillip following days of exploration of Port ...

shootings rock

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by

Eric Edgar Cooke Eric Edgar Cooke (25 February 1931 – 26 October 1964), nicknamed the Night Caller and later the Nedlands Monster, was an Australian serial killer who terrorised the city of Perth, Western Australia, from September 1958 to August 1963. Cooke c ...

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January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...

– French President

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Governm ...

vetoes the United Kingdom's entry into the European Common Market.

February

February 5 Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...

– The

European Court of Justice The European Court of Justice (ECJ, french: Cour de Justice européenne), formally just the Court of Justice, is the supreme court of the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European U ...

's ruling in ''

Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen ''Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen'' (1963) Case 26/62 was a landmark case of the European Court of Justice which established that provisions of the '' Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community'' were cap ...

'' establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the basic tenets of

European Union law European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community following World War II, the EU has developed the aim to "promote peace, its valu ...

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February 8 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. * 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of ...

– Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribb ...

are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration. *

February 10 Events Pre-1600 *1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparki ...

– Five Japanese cities located on the northernmost part of

Kyūshū is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...

are merged and become the city of

Kitakyūshū is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2019, Kitakyushu has an estimated population of 940,978, making it the second-largest city in both Fukuoka Prefecture and the island of Kyushu after the city of Fukuoka. It is one o ...

, with a population of more than 1 million. *

February 12 Events Pre-1600 * 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. * 1429 – English forces und ...

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Northwest Airlines Flight 705 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 705 was a scheduled passenger flight operated on February 12, 1963, that broke up in midair and crashed into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami International Airport in a severe thunderstor ...

crashes in the Florida

Everglades The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissim ...

, killing all 43 aboard. *

February 14 Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...

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Harold Wilson James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He ...

becomes leader of the opposition Labour Party in the United Kingdom; in October 1964 he becomes prime minister. *

February 21 Events Pre-1600 *452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. *1440 – The Pru ...

– The 5.6 Marj earthquake affects northern Libya with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''), causing 290–375 deaths and 375–500 injuries. *

February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantin ...

– Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...

March

March 4 Events Pre-1600 * AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a ...

– In Paris, six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President

. De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator,

Jean Bastien-Thiry Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry (; 19 October 1927 – 11 March 1963) was a French Air Force lieutenant-colonel and military air-weaponry engineer. He was the creator of the Nord SS.10/SS.11 missiles. He attempted to assassinate French President ...

, is executed by

firing squad Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French ''fusil'', rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Some reasons for its use are that firearms are ...

several days later. *

March 17 Events Pre-1600 * 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. * 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of ei ...

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Mount Agung Mount Agung ( id, Parwata Agung; ban, ᬕᬦ ᬆᬕ) is an active volcano in Bali, Indonesia, southeast of Mount Batur volcano, also in Bali. It is the highest point on Bali, and dominates the surrounding area, influencing the climate, especiall ...

erupts on

Bali Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and ...

, killing approximately 1,500. *

March 23 Events Pre-1600 *1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. *1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...

– "''Dansevise''" by Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr Volmer-Sørensen) wins the

Eurovision Song Contest 1963 The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest and took place in London, United Kingdom. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporatio ...

for Denmark. *

March 30 Events Pre-1600 * 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague. *1282 &ndash ...

–

Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...

are legally allowed to drink alcohol in

New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...

April

April 7 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town. * 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...

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Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...

is proclaimed to be a socialist republic, and

Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his death ...

is named President for Life. *

April 8 Events Pre-1600 * 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. * 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids. *1139 – Ro ...

– The

35th Academy Awards The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held on April 8, 1963, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, hosted by Frank Sinatra. Ceremony The Best Actress Oscar occasioned the last act of t ...

ceremony is held. ''

Lawrence of Arabia Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918 ...

'' wins

Best Picture This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...

. *

April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 1407 ...

– The U.S. nuclear submarine '' Thresher'' sinks east of

Cape Cod Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...

; all 129 aboard (112 crewmen plus yard personnel) die. *

April 11 Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. *1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. *1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...

–

Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII ( la, Ioannes XXIII; it, Giovanni XXIII; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, ; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 28 Oc ...

issues his final

encyclical An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church. At that time, the word could be used for a letter sent out by any bishop. The word comes from the Late Latin (originally fr ...

, ''

Pacem in terris ''Pacem in terris'' () was a papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII on 11 April 1963 on the rights and obligations of individuals and of the state, as well as the proper relations between states. It emphasized human dignity and equality ...

'', entitled ''On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty'', the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than to Roman Catholics only. *

April 12 Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to ...

– 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. *

April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor O ...

– The

Institute of Mental Health (Belgrade) The Institute of Mental Health in Belgrade ( sr, Институт за ментално здравље / Institut za mentalno zdravlje), established in 1963, is the first social-psychiatric institution in Southeast Europe. It is a tertiary care in ...

is established. *

April 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. * 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide. * 73 – Masad ...

– Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his "

Letter from Birmingham Jail The "Letter from Birmingham Jail", also known as the "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother", is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. It says that people have a moral responsibility to ...

". *

April 20 Events Pre-1600 * 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII. 1601–1900 *1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament. *1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys ...

– In

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...

, Canada, members of the terrorist group

Front de libération du Québec The (FLQ) was a Marxist–Leninist and Quebec separatist guerrilla group. Founded in the early 1960s with the aim of establishing an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means, the FLQ was considered a terrorist group by the Cana ...

bomb a

Canadian Army The Canadian Army (french: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces. It maintains regular forces units at bases across Canada, and is also respo ...

recruitment center, killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill. *

April 21 Events Pre-1600 * 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...

– 23 – The first election of the Supreme Institution of the

Baháʼí Faith The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people. Established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th century, it initially developed in Iran and parts of the ...

(known as the

Universal House of Justice The Universal House of Justice ( fa, بیت‌العدل اعظم) is the nine-member supreme ruling body of the Baháʼí Faith. It was envisioned by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, as an institution that could legislate ...

, whose seat is at the

Baháʼí World Centre The Baháʼí World Centre is the name given to the spiritual and administrative centre of the Baháʼí Faith, representing sites in or near the cities of Acre and Haifa, Israel. Much of the international governance and coordination of th ...

Mount Carmel Mount Carmel ( he, הַר הַכַּרְמֶל, Har haKarmel; ar, جبل الكرمل, Jabal al-Karmil), also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias ( ar, link=no, جبل مار إلياس, Jabal Mār Ilyās, lit=Mount Saint Elias/ Elijah), is a ...

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

) is held. * April 22 –

Lester Bowles Pearson Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, diplomat, and politician who served as the 14th prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968. Born in Newtonbrook, Ontario (now part of ...

becomes the 14th

Prime Minister of Canada The prime minister of Canada (french: premier ministre du Canada, link=no) is the head of government of Canada. Under the Westminster system, the prime minister governs with the confidence of a majority the elected House of Commons; as su ...

. *

April 28 Events Pre-1600 * 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire. * 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...

– 1963 general election is held in

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

. *

April 29 Events Pre-1600 * 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. * 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and b ...

– Buddy Rogers becomes the first WWWF Champion.

May

May 1 Events Pre-1600 * 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor. * 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches. *1169 – N ...

–

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introduces its first diet drink, Tab cola. *

May 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. *1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprison ...

–

Berthold Seliger The Berthold Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (BSFEGmbH) was a company founded by West German rocket technical designer Berthold Seliger in 1961. Seliger was a former assistant theoretician professor Dr. Eugen Sänger. The com ...

launches near

Cuxhaven Cuxhaven (; ) is an independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town includes the northernmost point of Lower Saxony. It is situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River. Cuxhaven has ...

a 3-stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany). *

May 4 Events Pre-1600 * 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''. * 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are ...

– The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel,

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 � ...

, kills 64 people. * May 8 –

Huế Phật Đản shootings The Huế Phật Đản shootings were the deaths of nine unarmed Buddhist civilians on 8 May 1963 in the city of Huế, South Vietnam at the hands of the army and security forces of the government of Ngô Đình Diệm, a Roman Catholic. The ...

: The

Army of the Republic of Vietnam The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; ; french: Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April ...

opens fire on Buddhists who defy a ban on the flying of the

Buddhist flag The Buddhist flag is a flag designed in the late 19th century as a universal symbol of Buddhism. It is used by Buddhists throughout the world. History The flag was originally designed in 1885 by the Colombo Committee, in Colombo, Ceylon (''no ...

Vesak Vesak (Pali: ''Vesākha''; sa, Vaiśākha), also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhism, Buddhists in South Asia and Southeast Asia as well as Tibet and Mongolia. The festival ...

, the birthday of

Gautama Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was born in Lu ...

, killing 9. Earlier, President Ngô Đình Diệm allowed the flying of the

Vatican flag The flag of Vatican City was adopted on 7 June 1929, the year Pope Pius XI signed the Lateran Treaty with Italy, creating a new independent state governed by the Holy See. The Vatican City flag is modeled on the 1808 yellow and white flag of the ...

in honour of his brother, Archbishop

Ngô Đình Thục Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục () (6 October 1897 – 13 December 1984) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế, Vietnam, and later a sedevacantist bishop who was excommunicated by the Vatican and allegedly reconciled with the Vatican b ...

, triggering the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam. *

May 13 Events Pre-1600 *1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book '' Revelations of Divine Love''. * 1501 – Amerigo Vespu ...

– A

smallpox Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus) which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) c ...

outbreak hits

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

, lasting until July. *

May 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks. *1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade. * 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...

– Kuwait becomes the 111th member of the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

. *

May 15 Events Pre-1600 * 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty. * 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...

–

Project Mercury Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Un ...

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

launches

Gordon Cooper Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human spa ...

Mercury-Atlas 9 Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft, named ''Faith 7'', completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in ...

, the last Mercury mission (on

June 12 Events Pre-1600 * 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. * 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...

NASA Administrator

James E. Webb James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second Administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968. Webb led NAS ...

tells Congress the program is complete). *

May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 1 ...

–

A.C. Milan Associazione Calcio Milan (), commonly referred to as AC Milan or simply Milan, is a professional Association football, football club in Milan, Italy, founded in 1899. The club has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 1980–81 ...

beats Benfica 2–1 at

Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium (branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons) is a football stadium in Wembley, London. It opened in 2007 on the site of the Wembley Stadium (1923), original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 200 ...

, London and wins the 1962–63 European Cup (football). *

May 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. *1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. * 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...

–

Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (; ; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 200 ...

visits the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. *

May 25 Events Pre-1600 * 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. *240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...

– The

Organisation of African Unity The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; french: Organisation de l'unité africaine, OUA) was an intergovernmental organization established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 32 signatory governments. One of the main heads for OAU's ...

is established in

Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

June

June 3 Events Pre-1600 * 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. * 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, depos ...

– Huế chemical attacks: The

rains liquid chemicals on the heads of Buddhist protestors, injuring 67 people. The United States threatens to cut off aid to the regime of Ngô Đình Diệm. *

June 4 Events Pre-1600 *1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. * 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...

– President of the United States

John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and the nickname Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination ...

signs

Executive Order 11110 Executive Order 11110 was issued by U.S. President John F. Kennedy on June 4, 1963. This executive order amended Executive Order 10289 (dated September 17, 1951) by delegating to the Secretary of the Treasury the president's authority to issue s ...

, authorizing the

Secretary of the Treasury The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...

to continue issuing silver certificates. *

June 5 Events Pre-1600 *1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. *1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles II of Naples, Charles ...

– The first annual

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...

Entry Draft is held in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

. *

June 10 Events Pre-1600 * 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock ( clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu. *1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...

– In the United States: ** President

signs the

Equal Pay Act of 1963 The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Fro ...

into law. ** President John F. Kennedy delivers his

American University speech The American University speech, titled "A Strategy of Peace", was a commencement address delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy at the American University in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 10, 1963. Delivered at the height o ...

, "A Strategy of Peace", in Washington, D.C. ** The

University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a public research university whose main campus is in unincorporated Orange County, Florida. UCF also has nine smaller regional campuses throughout central Florida. It is part of the State University ...

is established by the Florida legislature. *

June 11 Events Pre-1600 * 173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171). In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues them in the so-called "miracle ...

– In

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, Buddhist monk

Thích Quảng Đức Thích Quảng Đức (; vi-hantu, , 1897 – 11 June 1963; born Lâm Văn Túc) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the pers ...

commits

self-immolation The term self-immolation broadly refers to acts of altruistic suicide, otherwise the giving up of one's body in an act of sacrifice. However, it most often refers specifically to autocremation, the act of sacrificing oneself by setting oneself o ...

to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngô Đình Diệm administration. *

June 13 Events Pre-1600 * 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. * 1325 – Ibn Battuta ...

** The cancellation of

Mercury-Atlas 10 Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10) was a cancelled early crewed space mission, which would have been the last flight in NASA's Mercury program. It was planned as a three-day extended mission, to launch in late 1963; the spacecraft, ''Freedom 7-II'', would ...

effectively ends the United States' manned

spaceflight Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly spacecraft into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board. Most spaceflight is uncrewed and conducted mainly with spacecraft such as satellites in o ...

. ** The New York Commodity Exchange begins trading silver

futures contract In finance, a futures contract (sometimes called a futures) is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery at a specified time in the future, between parties not yet known to each other. The asset ...

s. *

June 15 Events Pre-1600 * 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. * 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II. * 923 – Battle of So ...

– The

AC Cobra The AC Cobra, sold in the United States as the Shelby Cobra and AC Shelby Cobra, is a sports car manufactured by British company AC Cars, with a Ford V8 engine. It was produced intermittently in both the United Kingdom and later the United ...

makes its first appearance at the

24 Hours of Le Mans The 24 Hours of Le Mans (french: link=no, 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused Sports car racing, sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. It is the world's oldest active Endurance racing (motorsport), endurance r ...

. It will go on to win its class the following year. *

June 16 Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Emperor Julian marches back up the Tigris and burns his fleet of supply ships. During the withdrawal, Roman forces suffer several attacks from the Persians. * 632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king ...

–

Vostok 6 Vostok 6 (russian: Восток-6, ''Orient 6'' or ''East 6'') was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space. Mission The spacecraft was launched on 16 June 1963. While Vostok 5 had been delayed by ...

carries Soviet cosmonaut

Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova ( rus, Валентина Владимировна Терешкова, links=no, p=vɐlʲɪnʲˈtʲinə vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvnə tʲɪrʲɪʂˈkovə, a=Valentina Tereshkova.ogg; born 6 March 1937) is an engine ...

, the first woman into space. *

June 19 Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea. *1179 – The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle chan ...

–

the first woman in space, returns to Earth, landing in the

. * June 20 ** Establishment of the

Moscow–Washington hotline The Moscow–Washington hotline (formally known in the United States as the Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link; rus, Горячая линия Вашингтон — Москва, r=Goryachaya liniya Vashington–Moskva) is a system t ...

(officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL; unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a

teleprinter A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations. Initia ...

link) is authorized by signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States. ** Swedish Air Force Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested as a spy for the

. * June 21 –

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI ( la, Paulus VI; it, Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, ; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his ...

(Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds

as the 262nd

pope The pope ( la, papa, from el, πάππας, translit=pappas, 'father'), also known as supreme pontiff ( or ), Roman pontiff () or sovereign pontiff, is the bishop of Rome (or historically the patriarch of Rome), head of the worldwide Cathol ...

. *

June 26 Events Pre-1600 * 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius. * 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar. * 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fr ...

gives his "

Ich bin ein Berliner "" (; "I am a Berliner") is a speech by United States President John F. Kennedy given on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin. It is one of the best-known speeches of the Cold War and among the most famous anti-communist speeches. Twenty-two mont ...

" speech in

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

, Germany. **

David Ben-Gurion David Ben-Gurion ( ; he, דָּוִד בֶּן-גּוּרִיּוֹן ; born David Grün; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973) was the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Adopting the nam ...

is replaced by

Levi Eshkol Levi Eshkol ( he, לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל ;‎ 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik ( he, לוי יצחק שקולניק, links=no), was an Israeli statesman who served as the third Prime Minister of Israe ...

as prime minister of Israel.

July

* July 1 – ZIP codes are introduced by the

United States Postal Service The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U ...

. *

July 5 Events Pre-1600 * 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius. * 1316 – The Burgundian a ...

– Diplomatic relations between the

i and the Japanese governments are raised to embassy level. *

July 7 Events Pre-1600 * 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks. * 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution. * 1520 – Spanish ''conquistad ...

–

Double Seven Day scuffle The Double Seven Day Scuffle was a physical altercation on July 7, 1963, in Saigon, South Vietnam. The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu—the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm—attacked a group of US journalists who were coveri ...

: Secret police loyal to

Ngô Đình Nhu Ngô Đình Nhu (; 7 October 19102 November 1963; baptismal name Jacob) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. He was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. Although he held n ...

, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attack American journalists including

Peter Arnett Peter Gregg Arnett (born 13 November 1934) is a New Zealand-born American journalist. He is known for his coverage of the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietn ...

and

David Halberstam David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 April 23, 2007) was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, Korean War, and late ...

at a demonstration during the

Buddhist crisis The Buddhist crisis ( vi, Biến cố Phật giáo) was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign o ...

in South Vietnam. *

July 11 Events Pre-1600 * 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. * 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...

– South Africa: police raid

Liliesleaf Farm Liliesleaf Farm is a location in northern Johannesburg, South Africa, which is most noted for its use as a safe house for African National Congress activists in the 1960s. In 1963, the South African police raided the farm, arresting more than a do ...

to the north of

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...

, arresting a group of

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a Social democracy, social-democratic political party in Republic of South Africa, South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when ...

leaders. *

July 19 Events Pre-1600 *AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city. * 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is re ...

– American test pilot Joe Walker, flying the

X-15 The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft. It was operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft. The X-15 set spee ...

, reaches an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 kilometers), making it a sub-orbital spaceflight by recognized international standards. *

July 26 Events Pre-1600 * 657 – First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I. * 811 – Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is se ...

** An

earthquake An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from ...

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

(present-day

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

) leaves 1,800 dead. **

launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary (

synchronous Synchronization is the coordination of events to operate a system in unison. For example, the conductor of an orchestra keeps the orchestra synchronized or ''in time''. Systems that operate with all parts in synchrony are said to be synchronou ...

)

satellite A satellite or artificial satellite is an object intentionally placed into orbit in outer space. Except for passive satellites, most satellites have an electricity generation system for equipment on board, such as solar panels or radioisotope ...

. *

July 30 Events Pre-1600 * 762 – Baghdad is founded. *1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. * 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islan ...

– The Soviet newspaper ''

Izvestia ''Izvestia'' ( rus, Известия, p=ɪzˈvʲesʲtʲɪjə, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in 1917, it was a newspaper of record in the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, and describes ...

'' reports that British diplomat and

double agent In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organi ...

Kim Philby Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secr ...

has been given asylum in Moscow.

August

August 5 Events Pre-1600 *AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty. * 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...

– The United States, United Kingdom and

sign the

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) is the abbreviated name of the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted ...

. *

August 8 Events Pre-1600 * 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the ...

– The Great Train Robbery takes place in

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, England. * August 14 – A huge and devastating

forest fire A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire ...

hits the region around

Paraná State Paraná, Paranã or Parana may refer to: Geology *Paraná Basin, a sedimentary basin in South America Places In Argentina * Paraná, Entre Ríos, a city * Paraná Department, a part of Entre Ríos Province * Paraná, Buenos Aires, a settlemen ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. According to government documents, two million hectares (4.94 million acres) were lost to burning and 110 persons perished. *

August 15 Events Pre-1600 * 636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins. * 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Const ...

– ''

Trois Glorieuses The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution (french: révolution de Juillet), Second French Revolution, or ("Three Glorious ays), was a second French Revolution after the first in 1789. It led to the overthrow of King ...

'': President

Fulbert Youlou Abbé Fulbert Youlou (29 June,In ''African Powder Keg: Revolt and Dissent in Six Emergent Nations'', author Ronald Matthews lists Youlou's date of birth as 9 June 1917. This date is also listed in ''Annuaire parlementaire des États d'Afrique noi ...

is overthrown in the Republic of Congo after a three-day uprising in the capital,

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. *

August 21 Events Pre-1600 * 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège. * 1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars. *1169 – Battle o ...

– Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to

, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across South Vietnam, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead. In the wake of the raids, the

Kennedy administration John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States, began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. A Democrat from Massachusetts, he took office following the 1960 p ...

Cable 243 DEPTEL 243, also known as Telegram 243, the August 24 cable or most commonly Cable 243, was a high-profile message sent on August 24, 1963, by the United States Department of State to Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., the US ambassador to South Vietnam. ...

orders the United States Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in the country, opening the way towards a coup against Diệm. *

August 22 Events Pre-1600 * 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. * 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. *1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland a ...

– American test pilot Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting the

to an altitude of 67.0 miles (107.8 kilometers). *

August 24 Events Pre-1600 * 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father. * 394 – The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written. ...

– First games played in the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

, the primary professional

Association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

league in

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, replacing the Oberliga. *

August 28 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna. * 489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way ...

–

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

delivers his "

I Have a Dream "I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called ...

" speech on the steps of the

Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in the ...

to an audience of at least 250,000, during the

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic righ ...

. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history.

September

September 1 Events Pre-1600 *1145 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated. *1173 – The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona b ...

– Establishment of language areas and facilities in Belgium comes into effect. This will become the foundation for further state reform in Belgium. *

September 6 Events Pre-1600 * 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later. *1492 – Christopher Colu ...

– The

Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies, or ''Centre d'Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle'' (CEIPI) in French (formerly the "Centre for International Industrial Property Studies", or "''Centre d'Études Inte ...

(CEIPI) is founded. *

September 10 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. *1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France. * 1509 – An eart ...

–

Sicilian Mafia The Sicilian Mafia, also simply known as the Mafia and frequently referred to as Cosa nostra (, ; "our thing") by its members, is an Italian Mafia-terrorist-type organized crime syndicate and criminal society originating in the region of Sicily a ...

boss

Bernardo Provenzano Bernardo Provenzano (; 31 January 1933 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian mobster and chief of the Sicilian Mafia clan known as the Corleonesi, a Mafia faction that originated in the town of Corleone, and ''de facto'' the boss of bosses (''il c ...

is indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

). *

September 15 Events Pre-1600 * 994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes. *1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by ...

–

American civil rights movement The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United ...

: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% fr ...

, kills 4 and injures 22. *

September 16 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council. *1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers. 1601–1900 *1620 – A determined band of 35 religio ...

–

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British

crown colony A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony administered by The Crown within the British Empire. There was usually a Governor, appointed by the British monarch on the advice of the UK Government, with or without the assistance of a local Counci ...

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

North Borneo North Borneo (usually known as British North Borneo, also known as the State of North Borneo) was a British Protectorate, British protectorate in the northern part of the island of Borneo, which is present day Sabah. The territory of North Borneo ...

(renamed

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indone ...

) and

Sarawak Sarawak (; ) is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia. The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the M ...

. *

September 18 Events Pre-1600 * 96 – Domitian, who has been conducting a reign of terror for the past three years, is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects. * 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor a ...

– Rioters burn down the British Embassy in

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

, to protest the formation of

. * September 23 –

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) ( ar, جامعة الملك فهد للبترول و المعادن, – short: ar, جامعة البترول ), after 1975 as the University of Petroleum and Minerals and initially as the ...

is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the ''College of Petroleum and Minerals''. *

September 24 Events Pre-1600 *787 – Second Council of Nicaea: The council assembles at the church of Hagia Sophia. *1568 – Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near ...

– The

United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and pow ...

ratifies the

. *

September 25 Events Pre-1600 * 275 – For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus. * 762 – Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt a ...

– In the

, Juan Bosch is deposed by a coup d'état led by the military with civilian support. *

September 29 Events Pre-1600 *61 BC – Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday. * 1011 – Danes capture Canterbury after a siege, taking Ælfheah, ...

– The second period of the

Second Vatican Council The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the , or , was the 21st Catholic ecumenical councils, ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. The council met in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome for four periods (or sessions) ...

in Rome opens.

October

October 1 Events Pre-1600 * 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. * 366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated. * 959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadw ...

– U.S. President

toasts Emperor

Haile Selassie Haile Selassie I ( gez, ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, Qädamawi Häylä Səllasé, ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (' ...

at a luncheon in

Rockville, Maryland Rockville is a city that serves as the county seat of Montgomery County, Maryland, and is part of the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The 2020 census tabulated Rockville's population at 67,117, making it the fifth-largest community in ...

. *

October 2 Events Pre-1600 * 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor. * 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and ...

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

becomes a

republic A republic () is a "state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th c ...

; The 1st Republican Constitution is established. ** The

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women The President's Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) was established to advise the President of the United States on issues concerning the status of women. It was created by John F. Kennedy's signed December 14, 1961. In 1975 it became the ...

in the United States issues its final reports to President Kennedy. *

October 3 Events Pre-1600 * 2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. * 52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Juliu ...

– 1963 Honduran coup d'état: A violent coup in

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform under President

Ramón Villeda Morales José Ramón Adolfo Villeda Morales (November 26, 1909 – October 8, 1971) served as President of Honduras from 1957 to 1963. He was also known by the nickname, "Pajarito". Biography Trained as a physician, his specialty was pediatrics ...

and begins two decades of military rule under General

Oswaldo López Arellano Oswaldo Enrique López Arellano (30 June 1921 – 16 May 2010) was a Honduran politician who twice served as the President of Honduras, first from 1963 to 1971 and again from 1972 until 1975. Early life Lopez was born in Danlí to Enrique L� ...

. *

October 4 Events Pre-1600 *AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. *1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. *1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes t ...

– Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and th ...

and

, killing nearly 7,000 people. *

October 7 Events Pre-1600 * 3761 BC – The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar. * 1403 – Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon. * 1477 ...

–

: Amid worsening relations, outspoken South Vietnamese First Lady

Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the ''de facto'' First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief advisor ...

arrives in the US for a speaking tour, continuing a flurry of attacks on the

. *

October 9 Events Pre-1600 * 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks. * 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia. * 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. * 1446 &ndash ...

– In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the

Vajont Dam The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam in northern Italy. It is one of the tallest dams in the world, with a height of . It is in the valley of the Vajont River under Monte Toc, in the municipality of Erto e Casso, north of Venice ...

causes a giant wave of water to overtop it. *

October 10 Events Pre-1600 * 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali. * 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France. *1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with ...

–

, signed on

, takes effect. *

October 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings. * 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's ...

– A revolution starts in

Radfan Radfan or the Radfan Hills is a region of the Republic of Yemen. In the 1960s, the area was part of a British protectorate of Dhala (a member of the Federation of South Arabia) and was the site of intense fighting during the Aden Emergency. In 1 ...

, South Yemen, against British colonial rule. *

October 16 Events Pre-1600 * 456 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. * 690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire. * ...

–

Ludwig Erhard Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic ...

replaces

Konrad Adenauer Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a Germany, German statesman who served as the first Chancellor of Germany, chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the fir ...

as Chancellor of West Germany. *

October 19 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage. * 439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in Nor ...

– Alec Douglas-Home succeeds

Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Caricatured as "Supermac", he ...

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern pr ...

. *

October 24 Events Pre-1600 * AD 69 – In the Second Battle of Bedriacum, troops loyal to Vespasian defeat those of Emperor Vitellius. *1260 – Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France. * 1360 – The T ...

– Fire at the Soviet Union's

Baikonur Cosmodrome The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...

in an

R-9 Desna The R-9 (NATO reporting name: SS-8 Sasin) was a two-stage IRBM of the Soviet Union, in service from 1964 to 1976. History Designed in 1959 and first tested in 1961, the R-9 was a great improvement over previous Soviet missile designs. The miss ...

underground missile silo; seven people are killed. *

October 30 Events Pre-1600 * 637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. * 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. *1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Ro ...

– The car manufacturing firm Lamborghini is founded in Italy. *

October 31 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor. * 683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down. * 802 – Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos. Co ...

–

1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion A gas explosion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis on October 31, 1963, killed up to 81 people and injured about 400 others. It was one of the worst disasters in the history of both the city and the U.S. state of Indi ...

: 81 die in a gas explosion during a

Holiday on Ice Holiday on Ice is an ice show currently owned by Medusa Music Group GmbH, a subsidiary of CTS EVENTIM, Europe's largest ticket distributor, with its headquarters in Bremen, Germany. History Holiday on Ice originated in the United States in Decem ...

show at the

Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum The Indiana Farmers Coliseum (originally Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum and formerly Pepsi Coliseum and Fairgrounds Coliseum) is a 6,500-seat indoor multi-use arena, located on the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. The Indiana Farm ...

Indianapolis Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...

, United States.

November

November 1 Events Pre-1600 *365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities. * 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freisin ...

–

Arecibo Observatory The Arecibo Observatory, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) and formerly known as the Arecibo Ionosphere Observatory, is an observatory in Barrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico owned by the US National Science F ...

, a

radio telescope A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are the main observing instrument used in radio astronomy, which studies the radio frequency ...

, officially begins operation in

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...

. *

November 2 Events Pre-1600 * 619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu. * 1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the ...

– 1963 South Vietnamese coup:

Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem On 1 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a successful coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh. The coup was the culmination of nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family ...

, the

South Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Việt Nam Cộng hòa), was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of th ...

ese President. *

November 6 Events Pre-1600 * 447 – A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers. * 963 – Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is ...

– 1963 South Vietnamese coup: Coup leader General

Dương Văn Minh Dương Văn Minh (; 16 February 19166 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm ...

takes over as leader of

. *

November 7 Events Pre-1600 * 335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople. * 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople. * 921 – Treaty of Bon ...

– 11 German miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days in what becomes known as the "

Wunder von Lengede On 7 November 1963, 11 West German miners were rescued from a collapsed mine after surviving for 14 days, an event that later became known as the Wunder von Lengede ("miracle of Lengede"). On 24 October 1963, the Lengede-Broistedt Iron Mine nea ...

" ("miracle of

Lengede Lengede is a municipality in the district of Peine, in Lower Saxony, Germany, some 18 kilometers southwest of Braunschweig and 40 kilometers southeast of Hanover. It became known to the world in 1963 because of a mining disaster and the subsequen ...

"). *

November 8 Events Pre-1600 * 960 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla. *1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, ...

–

Finnair Finnair ( fi, Finnair Oyj, sv, Finnair Abp) is the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland, with its headquarters in Vantaa on the grounds of Helsinki Airport, its hub. Finnair and its subsidiaries dominate both domestic and international ...

aircraft OH-LCA crashes before landing at

Mariehamn Airport Mariehamn Airport ( sv, Mariehamns flygplats is located in Jomala, Åland (a territory of Finland). The airport is located some north-west of Mariehamn town centre. It served 61,568 passengers in 2017 and is operated by the state-owned Finavia ...

Åland Åland ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an Federacy, autonomous and Demilitarized zone, demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1 ...

. * November 9 – Two disasters in Japan: **

Miike coal mine , also known as the , was the largest coal mine in Japan,Karan, P.P. & Stapleton, K.E. (1997) ''The Japanese city'p.181University Press of Kentucky Retrieved January 2012. located in the area of Ōmuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto, Japan. In 19 ...

explosion: A

coal mine Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

explosion kills 458 and sends 839

carbon monoxide poisoning Carbon monoxide poisoning typically occurs from breathing in carbon monoxide (CO) at excessive levels. Symptoms are often described as "flu-like" and commonly include headache, dizziness, weakness, vomiting, chest pain, and confusion. Large e ...

victims to the hospital. ** Tsurumi rail accident: A triple train disaster in

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...

kills 161. *

November 10 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Emperor Leo II dies after a reign of ten months. He is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. * 937 – Ten Kingdoms: Li Bian usurps the throne and deposes Emperor Yang ...

–

Malcolm X Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Is ...

makes an historic speech in

Detroit, Michigan Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at ...

Message to the Grass Roots "Message to the Grass Roots" is a public speech delivered by black civil rights activist Malcolm X. The speech was delivered on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, which was held at King Solomon Baptist Ch ...

"). *

November 14 Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 *1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope. *1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile. ...

– A volcanic eruption under the sea near

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

creates a new island,

Surtsey Surtsey (" Surtr's island" in Icelandic, ) is a volcanic island located in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland. At Surtsey is the southernmost point of Iceland. It was formed in a volcanic eruption which began ...

November 22 Events Pre-1600 * 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. * 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Fra ...

Assassination of John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was in the vehicle with ...

: In a motorcade in

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

, U.S. President

is fatally shot by

Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 fo ...

, and

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John Connally John Bowden Connally Jr. (February 27, 1917June 15, 1993) was an American politician. He served as the 39th governor of Texas and as the 61st United States secretary of the Treasury. He began his career as a Democrat and later became a Republican ...

is seriously wounded at 12:30 CST. Upon Kennedy's death, Vice President

Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He had previously served as the 37th vice ...

becomes the 36th President of the United States. A few hours later, President Johnson is sworn in aboard

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, as Kennedy's body is flown back to Washington, D.C. Stores and businesses shut down for the next four days, in tribute. *

November 23 Events Pre-1600 * 534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage. * 1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. * 1499 – Pretender to the t ...

** The Golden Age Nursing Home fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio, United States. ** The long-running sci-fi television series ''Doctor Who'' premieres on BBC One, BBC TV in the United Kingdom. * November 24 **

, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in

, an event seen on live national television. **

: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting

militarily and economically. * November 25 – State funeral of John F. Kennedy: President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schools around the nation cancel classes that day; millions watch the funeral on live international television. Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral takes place on the same day. * November 29 ** U.S. President

establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. ** Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near

, killing all 118 on board, the worst Aviation accidents and incidents, air disaster for many years in Canada's history. ** Foundation stone for Mirzapur Cadet College is laid in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). * November 30 – 1963 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, Country Coalition (Australia), Coalition Menzies Government (1949-66), Government is re-elected with an increased majority to an unprecedented eighth term in office, defeating the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. (This would be the final lower house election won by Menzies, who would retire from office during the term as the longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister in Australian history; he would be 1966 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, replaced by Harold Holt.)

December

*December 3 – The Warren Commission begins its investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. * December 4 – The second period of the

closes. * December 5 – The Seliger Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries near

. Although these rockets land via parachute at the end of their flight and no allied laws are violated, the

protests this action. * December 7 – The first instant replay system to use videotape instead of film is used by Tony Verna, a CBS-TV director, during a live televised sporting event, the Army–Navy Game of college football played in Philadelphia, United States. * December 8 – A lightning strike causes the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing 81 people. * December 10 ** Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom, as a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar, 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 12 – Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister. * December 20 – The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials begin. * December 21 – Cyprus Emergency: Inter-communal fighting erupts between Greek Cypriots, Greek and Turkish Cypriots. * December 22 – The cruise ship TSMS Lakonia, TSMS ''Lakonia'' burns north of Madeira, with the loss of 128 lives. * 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). * December 31 – Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolves.

Date unknown

* David H. Frisch and J.H. Smith prove that the radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion (see Albert Einstein, Einstein's special relativity and general relativity). * The TAT-3 transatlantic communications cable goes into operation. * Ivan Sutherland writes the revolutionary Sketchpad program and runs it on the Lincoln TX-2 computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. * Construction of Moscow's Ostankino Tower begins. * The IEEE Computer Society is founded. * The Urdu keyboard is standardised by the Central Language Board in Pakistan. * Harvey Ball invents the ubiquitous smiley face symbol. * The classic Porsche 911 is first produced. * The Reformed Druids of North America is founded. * Hergé's ''The Castafiore Emerald'' is published. * Marvel Comics, Marvel releases their Superhero assembly team The Avengers

Births

January

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* January 4 ** Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian ** Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein) * January 5 – Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, film director and screenwriter * January 6 – Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan long-distance runner (d. 1995) * January 10 – Kira Ivanova, Soviet Russian figure skater (d. 2001) * January 14 – Steven Soderbergh, American film director * January 15 – Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, cyber security expert, and writer * January 16 – James May, English motoring journalist and television show host *

– Kai Hansen, German power metal guitarist and singer * January 21 – Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian basketball player * January 23 – Gail O'Grady, American actress *

– Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician *

** José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager ** Andrew Ridgeley, English singer

February

* February 2 – Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (d. 1996) * February 3 – Gretel Killeen, Australian journalist * February 4 – Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier * February 6 ** David Capel, English cricketer (d. 2020) ** Cláudia Ohana, Brazilian actress and singer *

– John Michael Higgins, American actor and voice actor *

** Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor and director ** Alex Perry, Australian fashion designer * February 15 – Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese-American physicist (d. 2018) * February 16 – Claudio Amendola, Italian actor, television presenter and director * February 17 ** Jinggoy Estrada, Filipino politician, actor and film producer ** Michael Jordan, American basketball player ** Larry the Cable Guy, American actor and comedian * February 18 – Rob Andrew, English rugby union player * February 19 – Seal (musician), Seal, English singer * February 20 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player *

– William Baldwin, American actor, producer and writer * February 22 – Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer * February 23 – Reza Abdoh, Iranian-American director and playwright (d. 1995) * February 25 – Merab Katsitadze, retired Georgian professional football player *

– Virginie Boutaud, Brazilian singer and actress (Metrô (band), Metrô, Virginie & Fruto Proibido)

March

* March 1 ** Miss Shangay Lily, Spanish drag queen, writer, actor, and director (d. 2016) ** Thomas Anders, German singer * March 2 ** Anthony Albanese, 31st Prime Minister of Australia ** Tuff Hedeman, American PRCA World Champion Bull Rider * March 3 – Martín Fiz, Spanish long-distance runner *

– Jason Newsted, American bassist * March 8 – Juan Gilberto Funes, Argentine footballer (d. 1992) * March 9 - Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter (d. 2021) *March 10 ** Rick Rubin, American music producer ** Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Italian politician * March 11 ** Azem Hajdari, Albanian student leader (d. 1998) ** Alex Kingston, English actress ** David LaChapelle, American photographer * March 12 ** Farahnaz Pahlavi, Iranian princess ** Jake Weber, British actor ** Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner * March 13 – Fito Páez, Argentine musician * March 14 ** Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer ** Mahiro Maeda, Japanese animator * March 15 – Bret Michaels, American rock singer (Poison (American band), Poison) * March 16 – Kevin Smith (New Zealand actor), Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002) *

– Alex Fong (actor), Alex Fong, Hong Kong actor * March 18 ** Ratna Pathak, Indian actress ** Vanessa Williams, American beauty queen, actress and singer * March 20 ** Kathy Ireland, American actress and model ** David Thewlis, British actor * March 21 – Ronald Koeman, Dutch football player and manager * March 22 ** Marty Natalegawa, Indonesian diplomat ** Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of Peru *

– Míchel (footballer, born 1963), Jose Miguel Gonzalez Martin del Campo, Spanish football player * March 25 – Andrew O'Connor (actor), Andrew O'Connor, English actor, comedian, magician, television presenter and executive producer * March 26 – Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer * March 27 ** Dave Koz, American jazz musician ** Quentin Tarantino, American actor, director, writer and producer ** Xuxa, Brazilian television personality * March 28 ** Chieko Honda, Japanese voice actress (d. 2013) ** Bernice King, American activist, lawyer, and minister *

– Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Greek footballer * March 31 – Stephen Tataw, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2020)

April

* April 3 – Sarah Woodward, English actress * April 4 ** Siraj Raisani, Pakistani politician (d. 2018) ** Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020) ** Graham Norton, Irish comedian and talk show host ** Frank Yallop, Canadian footballer * April 6 ** Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador ** Clark Spencer, American film producer, businessman and studio executive ** Shaun Toub, Iranian-born American actor *

– Dean Norris, American actor * April 9 ** Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer ** Erdal Tosun, Turkish actor (d. 2016) *

– Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician and lawyer *

** Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Nigerian-born British biophysicist and virologist (d. 2021) ** Chris Ferguson, American poker player * April 13 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player * April 15 ** Beata Szydło, Prime Minister of Poland ** Diosdado Cabello, Venezuelan politician *

– Jimmy Osmond, American singer * April 18 ** Universo 2000, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2018) ** Eric McCormack, Canadian actor ** Conan O'Brien, American television entertainer and talk show host *

– Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor * April 22 – Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Spanish ski racer (d. 2019) * April 23 – Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak, Iranian politician (d. 2020) * April 26 – Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor * April 27– Russell T Davies, Welsh television producer and writer *

– Beate Grimsrud, Norwegian novelist and playwright (d. 2020) *

– Mike Babcock, Canadian ice hockey coach

May

– Yoram Yosefsberg, Israeli actor and voice actor * May 5 – James LaBrie, Canadian vocalist (Dream Theater) * May 9 – Gary Daniels, British martial artist and actor * May 10 ** Rich Moore, American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor ** Lisa Nowak, American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut ** A. Raja, Indian politician * May 11 ** Roark Critchlow, Canadian actor ** Natasha Richardson, British-American actress (d. 2009) * May 16 – Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician * May 21 – Kevin Shields, Irish-American singer (My Bloody Valentine (band), My Bloody Valentine) * May 24 ** Michael Chabon, American author ** Joe Dumars, American basketball player *

** Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian ** Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower * May 26 ** Clive Cowdery, English insurance entrepreneur ** Musetta Vander, South African actress * May 29 – Débora Bloch, Brazilian actress * May 31 – Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary

June

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* June 1 – David Westhead, English actor and producer * June 2 – Bernard Cazeneuve, Prime Minister of France *

– Alessandra Karpoff, Italian voice actress *

** Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union player ** Mossimo Giannulli, mossimo giannulli, American fashion designer *

– Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer * June 6 – Jason Isaacs, British actor * June 9 – Johnny Depp, American actor and film director *

– Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress *

– Chic Charnley, Scottish footballer *

– Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer *

– Bettina Bunge, German tennis player * June 14 – Rambo Amadeus, Montenegrin singer-songwriter *

** Helen Hunt, American actress ** Lourdes Valera, Venezuelan actress * June 17 – Greg Kinnear, American actor * June 18 ** Juan Chioran, Argentine-Canadian actor ** Rumen Radev, President of Bulgaria *

– Laura Ingraham, American television host * June 21 ** Tiger Huang, Taiwanese popular singer ** Rene Medvešek, Croatian actor ** Jan Pinkava, Czech director and writer * June 22 ** Randy Couture, American mixed martial arts fighter and actor ** Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler ** John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (d.

) * June 23 ** Marianne Berglund, Swedish road racing cyclist ** Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper ** Shin Ji-ho, South Korean politician ** Liu Cixin, Chinese science fiction writer ** Márcio França, Brazilian lawyer and politician ** Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer * June 24 ** Preki, Serbia-born American footballer ** Sükhbaataryn Batbold, Mongolian politician ** Jascha Richter, Danish single and songwriter, frontman of Michael Learns to Rock * June 25 ** Doug Gilmour, Canadian hockey player ** Yann Martel, Canadian author ** George Michael, British singer-songwriter (d. 2016) *

** Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman, activist and oligarch ** Farukh Ruzimatov, Russian ballet dancer * June 27 ** Gerrit Plomp, Dutch football defender ** Miroslav Šindelka, Slovak director, writer and producer * June 28 – Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director and screenwriter * June 29 ** Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist ** Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Swedish actor ** Mark Bourneville, New Zealand rugby league player ** Rupert Graves, English actor ** Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader ** Vladimir Vermezović, Serbian football player and coach ** Judith Hoag, American actress

July

* July 1 ** Naser Khader, Danish-Syrian politician ** Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater ** Zhang Zhicheng, Chinese fencer * July 2 – Faiq Al Sheikh Ali, Iraqi lawyer and politician * July 3 – Zainudin Nordin, Singaporean politician * July 4 ** Henri Leconte, French tennis player ** R.S. Thanenthiran, Malaysian politician and businessman *

** Edie Falco, American actress ** Zbigniew Hoffmann, Polish politician * July 6 – Sorin Matei, Romanian high jumper *

** Othman Abdul, Malaysian politician ** Vonda Shepard, American pop/rock singer, songwriter and actress ** Doug Dunakey, American golfer ** Fermín Alvarado Arroyo, Mexican politician ** Janni Larsen, Danish female darts player ** José María Larrañaga, Peruvian swimmer ** Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Indian filmmaker and screenwriter * July 8 ** Michael Cuesta, American film and television director ** Luis de Jesús Rodríguez, Dominican attorney, businessman and entrepreneur ** Dmitry Pevtsov, Russian actor * July 9 – Marc Mero, American amateur boxer and professional wrestler * July 10 ** Fatemeh Goudarzi, Iranian actress ** Ian Lougher, British motorcycle racer ** John Altschuler, American television and film producer and writer *

** Al MacInnis, Canadian ice hockey player ** Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban politician; Prime Minister of Cuba ** Lisa Rinna, American actress * July 12 ** Bertus Servaas, Polish entrepreneur ** Aleksandr Domogarov, Russian actor ** Andrés Roemer, Mexican diplomat * July 13 ** Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and model ** Spud Webb, American basketball player * July 14 – Wouter Bos, Dutch politician * July 15 ** Steve Thomas (ice hockey), Steve Thomas, British-Canadian retired ice hockey player ** Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress ** Joy Smithers, Australian actress * July 16 ** Phoebe Cates, American actress ** Mikael Pernfors, Swedish tennis player ** Srečko Katanec, Slovenian football manager and player ** Goran Pandurović, Serbian footballer * July 17 ** Suha Arafat, widow of Yasser Arafat ** King Letsie III of Lesotho ** Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper (d. 2019) * July 18 – Martín Torrijos, President of Panama *

– Sándor Wladár, Hungarian swimmer * July 20 ** Alexander Zhulin, Russian ice dancing coach and competitor ** Gbenga Aluko, Nigerian politician ** Adoni Maropis, Greek-American actor ** Roy Cheung, Hong Kong actor * July 21 – Giant Silva, Brazilian national basketball player, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler * July 22 ** Joanna Going, American actress ** Rob Estes, American actor ** Emilio Butragueño, Spanish football player * July 24 – Karl Malone, American professional basketball player * July 27 – Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor and martial artist * July 28 – Beverley Craven, British singer-songwriter * July 29 ** Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator ** Alexandra Paul, American actress, activist, health coach, and former model *

** Lisa Kudrow, American actress ** Chris Mullin, American basketball player, coach, and executive ** Gisèle Meygret, French fencer (d. 1999) ** Mandakini (actress), Mandakini (aka Yasmeen Joseph), Indian Bollywood actress * July 31 ** Fatboy Slim, English DJ, musician, and record producer ** Martin H. Wiggers, German economist, editor, author and businessman

August

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* August 1 ** Coolio, American rapper (d. 2022) ** Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor ** John Carroll Lynch, American actor and film director * August 3 ** Tasmin Archer, English singer ** James Hetfield, American musician (Metallica) * August 4 – Keith Ellison, American politician and lawyer *

** Mark Strong, English actor ** Doris Schröder-Köpf, German journalist * August 6 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker * August 7 ** Hiroaki Hirata, Japanese voice actor ** Harold Perrineau, American actor ** Wendy van der Plank, Welsh actress * August 9 – Whitney Houston, American singer (d. 2012) * August 13 ** Sridevi, Indian actress (d. 2018) ** Édouard Michelin (born 1963), Édouard Michelin, French businessman (d.

) ** Valerie Plame, American writer and spy novelist * August 14 – Emmanuelle Béart, French actress *

** Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter ** Valery Levaneuski, entrepreneur, politician and political prisoner * August 16 – Christine Cavanaugh, American actress and voice actress (d. 2014) * August 17 – James Whitbourn, British composer * August 18 – Heino Ferch, German actor * August 19 ** Marcos Palmeira, Brazilian actor ** John Stamos, American actor ** Joey Tempest, Swedish singer-songwriter (Europe (band), Europe) *

** King Mohammed VI of Morocco *

– Tori Amos, American singer * August 23 ** Glória Pires, Brazilian actress ** Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player ** Laura Flores, Mexican actress, hostess and singer ** Park Chan-wook, South Korean film director and screenwriter *

– Hideo Kojima, Japanese director, screenwriter, video game designer and video game producer * August 25 – Miro Cerar, 10th Prime Minister of Slovenia * August 26 ** Liu Huan, Chinese singer ** Michael Tao, Hong Kong actor * August 30 ** Michael Chiklis, American actor ** Phil Mills, British racing driver * August 31 – Todd Carty, Irish actor

September

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* September 2 - Tio Pakusadewo, Indonesian actor *

** Betsy Russell, American actress ** Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and critic of Islam * September 8 – Li Ning, Chinese gymnast * September 9 – Markus Wasmeier, German alpine-skier *

** Randy Johnson, American baseball player ** Jay Laga'aia, New Zealand-Australian actor and singer ** Gabriel Tiacoh, Ivorian sprinter (d. 1992) * September 11 – Gabriela Goldsmith, Mexican actress * September 12 – Michael McElhatton, Irish actor and writer * September 14 – Robert Herjavec, Canadian businessman, investor and television personality *

** Andréa Beltrão, Brazilian actress ** Richard Marx, American pop/rock singer * September 17 – Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler *

** Christopher Heyerdahl, Canadian actor ** John Powell (film composer), John Powell, English-American composer, conductor, pianist, and record producer ** Dan Povenmire, American animator, producer and voice actor * September 19 ** Jarvis Cocker, English rock musician (Pulp (band), Pulp) ** David Seaman, English football goalkeeper * September 21 ** Cecil Fielder, American baseball player ** Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor ** Mamoru Samuragochi, Japanese impostor *

– Tate Donovan, American actor and director *

** Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player ** Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus (band), Primus)

October

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** Mark McGwire, American baseball player ** Iriana Joko Widodo, 7th First Lady of Indonesia, wife of Joko Widodo *

– Maria Ressa, Filipina American campaigning journalist, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize laureate *

– Marcelo Buquet, Uruguayan-Mexican actor, previously model * October 5 –Dame Laura Davies, English golfer * October 6 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress *

** Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003) ** Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002) ** Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer * October 11 – Ronny Rosenthal, Israeli footballer * October 12 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director (d. 2010) *

– Alan McDonald (association football), Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer *

** Prince Laurent of Belgium ** Sinitta, Anglo-American singer * October 20 ** Domingos Simões Pereira, 16th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau ** Gisela Kozak, Venezuelan writer and essayist. ** Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut and Governor General of Canada * October 21 – Marisa Orth, Brazilian actress, singer and TV host * October 22 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater * October 23 – Wilson Yip, Hong Kong actor and director * October 25 – John Levén, Swedish bassist (Europe (band), Europe) * October 26 – Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and director * October 27 ** Sergey Smiryagin, Russian freestyle swimmer (d. 2020) ** Feyyaz Uçar, Turkish footballer ** Farin Urlaub, German singer, band Die Ärzte ** Marla Maples, American actress and television personality * October 28 – Lauren Holly, American actress *

** Johnny Marr, English musician ** Dermot Mulroney, American actor ** Rob Schneider, American actor, comedian and film director

November

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** Rick Allen (drummer), Rick Allen, British rock musician (Def Leppard) ** Mark Hughes, Welsh football player & manager ** Katja Riemann, German actress *

** Brian Kemp, American politician, 83rd Governor of Georgia ** Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker ** Borut Pahor, incumbent President of Slovenia * November 4 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer (d. 1999) * November 5 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author *

– John Barnes (footballer), John Barnes, Jamaican-born English footballer *

– Paul Butcher (American football), Paul Butcher, American football linebacker *

** Hugh Bonneville, British actor ** Mike Powell (long jumper), Mike Powell, American long jumper * November 11 – Billy Gunn, American professional wrestler * November 15 – Benny Elias, Australian rugby league player * November 18 – Peter Schmeichel, Danish-born football goalkeeper * November 19 ** Jon Potter, British field hockey player ** Terry Farrell (actress), Terry Farrell, American actress * November 20 – Ming-Na Wen, Macanese-American actress * November 21 – Nicollette Sheridan, English actress *

** Erika Buenfil, Mexican actress, TV host and singer ** Yoshino Takamori, Japanese voice actress * November 25 – Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer * November 28 – Matt Parkinson (comedian), Matt Parkinson, Australian comedian, actor, radio presenter, and game show personality

December

* December 2 – Ann Patchett, American novelist * December 4 – Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter * December 7 ** Mark Bowen (footballer), Mark Bowen, Welsh footballer ** Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Malaysian politician ** Paul Dobson (actor), Paul Dobson, British voice actor * December 8 ** Greg Howe, American guitarist ** Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional wrestler * December 9 ** Empress Masako, Empress of Japan ** Bárbara Palacios, Miss Universe 1986 * December 12 ** Juan Carlos Varela, Panamian politician and 37th President of Panama ** Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress * December 13 ** Uwe-Jens Mey, German speed skater ** Jake White, South African rugby coach * December 14 ** Cynthia Gibb, American actress ** Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian baritone, professor and television host * December 15 – Helen Slater, American actress, singer and songwriter * December 16 ** Benjamin Bratt, American actor ** Jeff Carson, American singer ** Bärbel Schäfer, German television presenter and talk show host * December 18 ** Pauline Ester, French singer ** Rikiya Koyama, Japanese voice actor ** Charles Oakley, American basketball player ** Brad Pitt, American actor and film producer, co-founder of Plan B Entertainment * December 19 ** Jennifer Beals, American actress ** Til Schweiger, German actor * December 20 ** Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo ** Joel Gretsch, American actor * December 21 ** Donovan Ruddock, Jamaican Canadian former professional boxer ** Govinda Ahuja, Indian actor and politician ** Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician (d. 2007) ** Chua Tian Chang, Malaysian politician * December 22 ** Vladdo, Vladimir Flórez, Colombian cartoonist ** Bryan Gunn, Scottish footballer ** Russell Lewis, British child actor and television writer ** Luna H. Mitani, Japanese-American Surrealist painter * December 23 – Donna Tartt, American author * December 24 ** Sanjay Mehrotra, Indian entrepreneur ** Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne and writer (d. 2016) * December 26 – Lars Ulrich, Danish rock drummer (Metallica) * December 29 ** Graciano Rocchigiani, German professional boxer (d. 2018) ** Francisco Bustamante, Filipino billiard player ** Sean Payton, American football coach ** Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden, 35th Prime Minister of Sweden * December 30 – Kim Hill (singer), Kim Hill, American Christian singer * December 31 – Azalina Othman Said, Malaysian politician

Deaths

January

** Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910) ** Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904) * January 3 – Shinobu Ishihara, Japanese ophthalmologist (b. 1879) * January 5 – Erik Strandmark, Swedish film actor (b. 1919) * January 6 – Frank Tuttle, American film director (b. 1892) * January 7 – Erik Lundqvist, Swedish athlete (b. 1908) *

– Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-born American aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer (b. 1888) * January 10 – Franz Planer, Austrian film cinematographer (b. 1894) *

** Sonny Clark, American jazz pianist (b. 1931) ** Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese politician, 1st President of Togo (assassinated) (b. 1902) ** Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish writer (b. 1888) * January 14 – Gustav Regler, German socialist novelist (b. 1898) * January 15 – Cesare Fantoni, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1905) * January 18 ** Hugh Gaitskell, British politician, leader of the Labour Party (b. 1906) ** Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899) * January 20 ** Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1925) ** Avra Theodoropoulou, Greek suffragist (b. 1880) * January 21 – Al St. John, American actor (b. 1892) * January 23 ** Mohammad Ali Bogra, Pakistani statesman, politician and diplomat, 3rd Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1909) ** Józef Gosławski (sculptor), Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (b. 1908) * January 24 ** Otto Harbach, American lyricist and librettist (b. 1873) ** Kenneth Western, part of The Western Brothers (b. 1899) *

– Marion Sunshine, American actress (b. 1894) *

– Ole Olsen (comedian), Ole Olsen, American actor (b. 1892) * January 27 – John Farrow, Australian-born American film director (b. 1904) *

** Anthony Coldeway, American screenwriter (b. 1887) ** Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874) ** Lee Meadows, American baseball player (b. 1894) ** Isaías de Noronha, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1874) * January 30 ** Jane Gail, American silent movie and stage actress (b. 1890) ** Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899) * January 31 – Alasgar Alakbarov, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1910)

February

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* February 1 ** Louis D. Lighton, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1895) ** Wyndham Standing, English actor (b. 1880) * February 2 – William Gaxton, American vaudeville, film and theatre performer (b. 1893) * February 6 ** Abd el-Krim, Riffian political and military leader (b. 1882) ** Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (b. 1933) *

** George Dolenz, American actor (b. 1908) ** Ernst Glaeser, German writer (b. 1902) * February 9 – Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraqi general, 24th Prime Minister of Iraq (executed) (b. 1914) * February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist (b. 1932) * February 15 ** Edgardo Donato, Uruguayan tango composer and orchestra leader (b. 1897) ** Louis J. Gasnier, French film director (b. 1875) ** Bump Hadley, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1904) * February 16 ** Else Jarlbak, Danish film actress (b. 1911) ** László Lajtha, Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor (b. 1892) * February 18 ** Monte Blue, American actor (b. 1887) ** Beppe Fenoglio, Italian writer (b. 1887) ** Fernando Tambroni, Italian politician and 36th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1901) ** Tokugawa Iemasa, Japanese politician, 17th head of the Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1884) ** Zareh I, Armenian Catholicos of Cilicia (b. 1915) * February 19 – Benny Moré, Cuban singer (b. 1919) * February 20 ** Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914) ** Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (b. 1879) ** Bill Hinchman, American baseball player (b. 1883) * February 22 – Arthur Guy Empey, American soldier (in British service), author, screenwriter and actor (b. 1883) * February 24 – Herbert Asbury, American journalist and writer (b. 1889) * February 25 – Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist (b. 1895) * February 28 ** Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884) ** Eppa Rixey, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891)

March

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* March 1 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893) *

– William Carlos Williams, American writer (b. 1883) * March 5 ** Patsy Cline, American singer plane crash (b. 1932) ** Ludde Gentzel, Swedish film actor (b. 1885) ** Cyril Smith (actor), Cyril Smith, Scottish actor (b. 1892) ** Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Egyptian intellectual and anti-colonial activist (b. 1872) * March 6 – Robert E. Cornish, scientist (b. 1903) * March 7 – Joachim Holst-Jensen, Norwegian film actor (b. 1880) * March 11 ** Ignat Bednarik, Romanian painter (b. 1882) ** Joe Judge (baseball), Joe Judge, American baseball player (b. 1894) * March 16 ** Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (b. 1883) ** William Beveridge, British economist (b. 1879) *

** Thomas Lennon (screenwriter, born 1896), Thomas Lennon, screenwriter (b. 1896) ** Lizzie Miles, American blues singer (b. 1895) * March 18 ** Hubert Gough, Sir Hubert Gough, British general (b. 1870) ** Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895) * March 20 – Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt, Cuban Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1879) * March 21 – Felice Minotti, Italian film actor (b. 1887) * March 22 ** Cilly Aussem, German tennis champion (b. 1909) ** Abraham Ellstein, American composer (b. 1907) ** Mihály Székely, Hungarian bass singer (b. 1901) *

– Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1887) * March 25 – Felix Adler (screenwriter), Felix Adler, American screenwriter (b. 1884) * March 26 – Jean Bruce, French writer (b. 1921) * March 27 – Harry Piel, German actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (b. 1892) * March 28 ** Antoine Balpêtré, French film actor (b. 1898) ** Frank J. Marion, American motion picture pioneer (b. 1869) * March 29 ** Pola Gojawiczyńska, Polish writer (b. 1896) ** Henry Bordeaux, French writer and lawyer (b. 1870) * March 31 ** Harry Akst, American songwriter (b. 1894) ** Harold Franklyn, Sir Harold Franklyn, British army general (b. 1885)

April

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* April 1 – Agnes Mowinckel, Norwegian actress and stage producer (b. 1875) * April 3 – Alma Richards, American Olympic gold medalist (b. 1890) * April 4 ** Gaetano Catanoso, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1879) ** Jason Robards Sr., American stage and screen actor, heart attack (b. 1892) ** Oskari Tokoi, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (b. 1873) * April 6 ** Mario Fabrizi, comedian and actor, Stress (biology), stress-related illness (b. 1924) ** Otto Struve, Russian–American astronomer (b. 1897) *

– Amedeo Maiuri, Neapolitan archaeologist (b. 1886) * April 9 ** Eddie Edwards (musician), Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891) ** Benno Moiseiwitsch, Jewish-Ukrainian pianist (b. 1890) ** Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor, writer (b. 1887) *

– Nando Bruno, Italian film actor (b. 1895) *

** Felix Manalo, 1st Executive Minister, Iglesia ni Cristo (b. 1886) ** Herbie Nichols, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1919) *

** Abdel Messih El-Makari, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, priest and saint (b. 1892) ** Arthur Jonath, German Olympic athlete (b. 1909) ** Kodō Nomura, Japanese novelist and music critic (b. 1882) ** Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, writer and scholar (b. 1893) * April 23 ** Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel historian and politician, 2nd President of Israel (b. 1884) ** Ferruccio Cerio, Italian film writer and director (b. 1904) ** Paul Fejos, Hungarian film director (b. 1897) ** Harry Harper, American baseball player (b. 1895) ** Don C. Harvey, American television and film actor (b. 1911) ** Frederick Peters (actor), Frederick Peters, American film actor (b. 1884) ** William Lewis Moore, American postal worker (b. 1927) * April 24 ** Rino Corso Fougier, Italian air force general (b. 1894) ** Leonid Lukov, Soviet film director and screenwriter (b. 1909) * April 26 – Roland Pertwee, English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor (b. 1885) * April 27 – Kenneth Macgowan, American film producer (b. 1888) * April 30 ** Giovanni Grasso, Italian film actor (b. 1888) ** William C. Mellor, American cinematographer, heart attack (b. 1903) ** Bryant Washburn, American film actor, heart attack (b. 1889)

May

– Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of Filipino language, Philippine National Language and Grammar (b. 1879) *

– Van Wyck Brooks, American literary critic and writer (b. 1886) * May 5 – Mohamed Khemisti, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1930) * May 6 ** Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist (b. 1881) ** Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888) * May 11 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) * May 12 ** Robert Kerr (athlete), Robert Kerr, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1882) ** A. W. Tozer, American Protestant pastor (b. 1897) * May 16 – Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet military officer & spy (b. 1919) * May 18 – Ernie Davis, American football player, first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy (b. 1939) * May 24 – Elmore James, American blues guitarist (b. 1918) *

– Mehdi Frashëri, Albanian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1872) * May 28 – Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian writer, journalist, politician and priest (b. 1882) * May 29 – Netta Muskett, British novelist (b. 1887) * May 31 – Edith Hamilton, German-born author (b. 1867)

June

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(b. 1881) ** Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet (b. 1902) *

– Adrian Carton de Wiart, English general (b. 1880) * June 6 – William Baziotes, American painter (b. 1912) * June 7 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894) * June 9 ** Antony Thachuparambil, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest and servant of God (b. 1894) ** Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875) *

– Anita King, American actress and race-car driver (b. 1884) *

, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (suicide) (b. 1897) ** Syed Abdul Rahim, First Indian national football manager (b. 1909) ** Alfred V. Kidder, American archaeologist (b. 1885) *

** Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (b. 1925) ** Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Andrew Cunningham, British admiral (b. 1883) * June 17 ** Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British Field Marshal (b. 1883) **Robert James Hudson, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1885) ** John Cowper Powys, British novelist (b. 1872) * June 18 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912) *

– Amy Hannah Adamson, Australian principal (b. 1893) * June 24 – Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (b. 1878) * June 27 – John Maurice Clark, American economist (b. 1884) * June 28 – Frank Baker, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)

July

* July 1 – Sultan Abdullah bin Khalifa of Zanzibar (b. 1910) * July 4 – Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, British army general and Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1889) * July 6 – George, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899) *

– Frank P. Lahm, American aviator (b. 1877) * July 14 – Rasmus Hatledal, Norwegian topographer and military officer (b. 1885) * July 22 – Albertus Soegijapranata, Indonesian Jesuit priest (b. 1896) * July 27 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)

August

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* August 1 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (b. 1908) * August 4 – Tom Keene (actor), Tom Keene, American actor (b. 1896) * August 10 – Estes Kefauver, American politician (b. 1903) * August 11 ** Clem Bevans, American actor (b. 1880) ** Tanxu, Chinese Buddhist monk (b. 1875) * August 14 – Clifford Odets, American dramatist (b. 1906) * August 17 – Richard Barthelmess, American actor (b. 1895) *

– William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1877) * August 23 ** Mary Gordon (actress), Mary Gordon, Scottish actress (b. 1882) ** Larry Keating, American actor (b. 1899) *

– James Kirkwood, Sr., American film director (b. 1875) * August 27 ** W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist (b. 1868) ** Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi, Indian founder of the Khaksar Movement (b. 1888) * August 30 – Guy Burgess, British spy, one of the Cambridge Five (b. 1911) * August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)

September

* September 4 – Robert Schuman, French statesman, a Founding fathers of the European Union, founding father of the European Union (b. 1886) * September 9 – Edwin Linkomies, 25th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1894) * September 11 ** Claude Fuess, American author, historian and List of Phillips Academy Heads of School, headmaster (b. 1885) ** Richard Oswald, Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880) ** Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889) * September 17 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1882) * September 19 – David Low (cartoonist), David Low, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1891) *

** Alexander Sakharoff, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1886) ** Kurt Zeitzler, German Army officer (b. 1895) * September 30 – Paul Alexiu, Romanian general (b. 1893)

October

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** Lloyd Fredendall, American general (b. 1883) ** Kate Gordon Moore, American psychologist (b. 1878) *

– Gustaf Gründgens, German actor (b. 1899) *

– Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (b. 1938) *

– Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (b. 1915) * October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889) * October 15 – Alan Goodrich Kirk, American admiral (b. 1888) * October 20 – Diana Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1909) * October 21 – Jean Decoux, French admiral, Governor-General of French Indochina (1940-1945) (b. 1884) *

** Karl Bühler, German psychologist and linguist (b. 1879) ** Beverly Wills, American actress (b. 1933) * October 25 ** Roger Désormière, French conductor (b. 1898) ** Björn Þórðarson, 9th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1879) ** Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian civil engineer and "father of soil mechanics" (b. 1883) * October 28 – Jack E. Bairstow, American politician and lawyer (b. 1902) * October 29 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890) *

** Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician (b. 1866) ** Saburō Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (b. 1872) *

– Henry Daniell, English actor (b. 1894)

November

** Hồ Tấn Quyền, South Vietnamese Navy officer (assassinated) (b. 1927) ** Lê Quang Tung, South Vietnamese Army officer (assassinated) (b. 1923) ** Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist and hostess (b. 1883) *

** Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (

) (assassinated) (b. 1901) **

, South Vietnamese politician (assassinated) (b. 1910) * November 4 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexican politician, substitute President of Mexico 1930-1932 (b. 1877) * November 5 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (b. 1902) * November 12 **José María Gatica, Argentine boxer (b. 1925) **John R. Hodge, United States Army general (b. 1893) * November 15 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888) * November 16 – Albert H. Pearson, American politician (b. 1920) * November 19 – Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer (b. 1918) * November 21 – Robert Stroud, American prisoner, known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" (b. 1890) *

** Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazism, Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905) ** Aldous Huxley, British writer (''Brave New World'') (b. 1894) **

, American politician, 35th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1917) ** C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist (''The Chronicles of Narnia'') and Christian apologist (b. 1898) *

– John Baumgarten, American businessman and politician (b. 1902) * November 24 –

, American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (murdered) (b. 1939)Warren Commission Report. * November 26 **Gheorghe Băgulescu, Romanian general and diplomat (b. 1886) **Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian opera singer (b. 1882) * November 28 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (b. 1896) * November 30 ** Phil Baker (comedian), Phil Baker, American comedian and radio personality (b. 1896) ** Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall, British Air Marshal and State servant, 6th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1886)

December

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* December – Andy Kennedy (footballer, born 1897), Andy Kennedy, Northern Ireland footballer (b. 1897) * December 2 ** Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor (b. 1924) ** Thomas Hicks (athlete), Thomas Hicks, American runner (b. 1875) * December 5 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905) * December 10 – K. M. Panikkar, Indian scholar, diplomat and journalist (b. 1895) * December 12 ** Theodor Heuss, German politician, 5th President of Germany (b. 1884) ** Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1903) * December 14 ** Hubert Pierlot, Belgian lawyer and jurist, 32nd Prime Minister of Belgium, leader of the Belgian government in exile (b. 1883) ** Dinah Washington, American jazz/blues singer (b. 1924) * December 15 – Rikidōzan, Korean-born Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1924) * December 21 – Jack Hobbs, Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1882) * December 25 – Tristan Tzara, French poet (b. 1896) * December 26 – Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (b. 1915) * December 28 ** Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895) ** A. J. Liebling, American journalist (b. 1904)

Nobel Prizes

*Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen *Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta *Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley *Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Giorgos Seferis *Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies

References

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