In history, year 1963 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1963.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 02 january | Vietnam War: The Viet Cong won its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac. |
| 21 january | Following a period of chaos in Congo-Léopoldville and United Nations intervention, the secession of Katanga came to an end. |
| 05 february | The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen established the principle of direct effect, one of the basic tenets of European Union law. |
| 19 february | Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, a non-fiction books credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States, was first published. |
| 27 february | The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo. |
| 08 march | The Ba'ath Party came to power in Syria in a coup d'état by aclique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves theNational Council of the Revolutionary Command. |
| 17 march | The most recent eruption of Mount Agung on Bali, Indonesia,killed approximately 1,500 people. |
| 21 march | Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California—one of the world's most notorious and best known prisons—was closed. |
| 22 march | Please Please Me, the first album recorded by The Beatles, was released. |
| 11 april | Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris ('Peace on Earth'), the first papal encyclical addressed to 'all men of good will', rather than only to Catholics. |
| 16 april | Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail In response to an open letter written by white clergyman four days earlier. |
| 30 april | A boycott was held in Bristol to protest the Bristol OmnibusCompany's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing nationalattention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. |
| 03 may | Police in Birmingham, Alabama, used high-pressure water hosesand dogs on civil rights protesters, bringing intense scrutiny on racialsegregation in the southern US. |
| 08 may | In Hu?, South Vietnam, soldiers of the Army of the Republicof Vietnam opened fire into a crowd of Buddhist protestors against agovernment ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesakha, killingnine and sparking the Buddhist crisis. |
| 08 may | South Vietnam, soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam opened fire into a crowd of Buddhist protestors against agovernment ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesakha, killingnine and sparking the Buddhist crisis. |
| 15 may | Gordon Cooper, an American astronaut, was launched into space aboard the Mercury-Atlas 9 spacecraft on May 15, 1963. It was the final mission of the first manned space program called as Project Mercury and Gordon became the first American to sleep in space during 34-hour mission. |
| 24 may | United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met withAfrican American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt toimprove race relations. |
| 30 may | Buddhist crisis A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration against President Ngô ?ình Di?m. |
| 03 june | Buddhist crisis-South Vietnamese Army soldiers attackedprotesting Buddhists in Hu?, with liquid chemicals from tear gasgrenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised. |
| 05 june | The British Secretary of State for War John Profumo admitted helied to the House of Commons during enquiries about his involvement in asex scandal and resigned. |
| 11 june | The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor ofAlabama George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking theentrance to an auditorium. |
| 11 june | Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself to death inSaigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South VietnamesePresident Ngo Dinh Diem's administration. |
| 12 june | African American civil rights activist Medgar Evers wasmurdered by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith. |
| 16 june | Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6. |
| 16 june | Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. |
| 17 june | Around 2,000 people rioted in South Vietnam, despite thesigning of the Joint Communique to resolve the ongoing Buddhist crisisone day earlier. |
| 20 june | The so-called 'red telephone' was established between the WhiteHouse and the Kremlin, after the Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrated thatdirect communications between the two nations were necessary. |
| 21 june | Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was elected as Pope Paul VI. He reigned from 21 June 1963 to his death in 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, he continued the Second Vatican Council which he closed in 1965, implementing its numerous reforms and fostered improved ecumenical relations with Eastern Orthodox and Protestants, which resulted in many historic meetings and agreements. |
| 21 june | Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was elected as Pope Paul VI. |
| 30 june | A car bomb intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco killed sevenpolice and military officers near Palermo. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 May | Marco Mendoza / Guitarist / United States of America |
| 02 July | Mark Kermode / Bassist / United Kingdom |
| 04 September | Sami Yaffa / Writer / Finland |
| 07 August | Nick Gillespie / Author / United States of America |
| 10 May | Lisa Nowak / Astronaut / United States of America |
| 11 November | Billy Gunn / Actor / United States of America |
| 11 September | Dave Bidini / Singer / Canada |
| 12 August | Sir Mix-a-Lot / Producer / United States of America |
| 15 December | Norman J. Grossfeld / Writer / United States of America |
| 17 October | Toby Young / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 18 February | Rob Andrew / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 20 March | Kathy Ireland / Actress / United States of America |
| 21 March | Ronald Koeman / Footballer / Netherlands |
| 21 September | Angus Macfadyen / Actor / Scotland |
| 21 September | Mamoru Samuragochi / Composer / Japan |
| 23 August | Richard Illingworth / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 23 February | Bobby Bonilla / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 25 November | Kevin Chamberlin / Actor / United States of America |
| 25 April | Paul Wassif / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 29 August | Elizabeth Fraser / Singer / Scotland |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 13 August | Sridevi / Actress / India |
| 03 February | Raghuram Rajan / IPS / India |
| 14 September | Robin Singh / Cricketer / India |
| 03 February | Raghuram Rajan / Academic / India |
| 10 August | Phoolan Devi / Politician / India |
| 01 April | Rohini Khadilkar / Player / India |
| 07 September | Neerja Bhanot / Model / India |
| 07 September | Neerja Bhanot / Air Hostess / India |
| 15 April | Manoj Prabhakar / Cricketer / India |
| 01 November | Nita Ambani / Business Woman / India |
| 29 November | Lalit Modi / Business Man / India |
| 04 December | Javed Jafri / Actor / India |
| 21 December | Govinda / Actor / India |
| 31 August | Rituparno Ghosh / Actor / India |
| 02 June | Anand Abhyankar / Actor / India |
| 21 December | Govinda / Actor / India |
| 31 August | Rituparno Ghosh / Director / India |
| 08 February | Mohammad Azharuddin / Politician / India |