1963

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968

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Births

• February 11 - Todd Benzinger, American baseball player.

Deaths

• February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
• November 22 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Events

• February 11 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album, including "Please, Please Me".
• February 11 - CIA Domestic Operations Division is created.
• August 28 - Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speech on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
• Lyndon Johnson succeeds John F. Kennedy as President of the United States of America

Technology

• End of the Mercury program of U.S. manned spaceflight
• Frisch and Smith prove radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion. (See Einstein's Special Relativity and General Relativity).

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
• Chemistry - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
• Medicine - Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
• Literature - Giorgos Seferis
• Peace - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies