Page 7: Historical Events In 1963

Jun 07   Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65.   

Jun 08   "Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances   

Jun 09   Barbra Striesand appears on "The Ed Sullivan Show".   

Jun 09   Movie "Cleopatra" opens in NY.   

Jun 10   Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74.   

Jun 11   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for attempts to integrate Florida restaurants.   

Jun 11   Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at U of Alabama.   

Jun 11   JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act".   

Jun 11   Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon   

Jun 12   Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80   

Jun 12   Civil rights leader Medger Evers is shot and killed in front of his Jackson, Mississippi home.   

Jun 14   Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days.   

Jun 16   In this year, Levi Eshkol formally adopts in place of David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM.   

Jun 16   J C Powys, writer, dies at 90   

Jun 16   Valentina Tereshkova is recorded as becoming inaugural woman in space, aboard Vostok 6   

Jun 17   Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79   

Jun 17   Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools   

Jun 18   3000 blacks boycot Boston public school   

Jun 18   3000 blacks boycott Boston public school   

Jun 19   2 Russian space missions return to Earth   

Jun 19   Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen.   

Jun 19   Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is recorded as becoming the inaugural woman in space   

Jun 19   Valentina Tereshkova inaugural woman in space returns to Earth.   

Jun 20   Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income.   

Jun 20   Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott and Costello), dies at 52.   

Jun 20   US and USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"   

Jun 21   3 civil rights workers-Michael H Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney-disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail   

Jun 21   Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII   

Jun 24   The inaugural demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London   

Jun 24   Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain   

Jun 26   Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian govt   

Jun 26   Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).   

Jun 26   Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies.   

Jun 27   Bill J Kramer and Dakotas record Lennon and McCartney "I Call Your Name".   

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Jan 02   David cone: Kc mo, baseball pitcher (ny mets/tor blue jays/ny yankees)   

Jan 02   Edgar martinez: Nyc, baseball 1st baseman (seattle mariners)   

Jan 03   Aamer malik: Cricketer (pakistani batsman in 13 tests 1987-90)   

Jan 03   Ashley chinner: Cape town s afr, golfer (1992 cgia canadian tour)   

Jan 03   Jim everett: Nfl quarterback (la raiders, no saints, sd chargers)   

Jan 03   Vic grimes: American professional wrestler   

Jan 03   Alex wheatle mbe: Black british novelist   

Jan 04   Dave foley: Actor/comedian (kids in the hall, dave nelson-newsradio)   

Jan 02   Dick powell: Actor/director (dick powell theater),    

Jan 03   Oscar backing: Austria/neth viola player,   

Jan 05   Rogers hornsby: Baseball player,   

Jan 06   Lourens gm baas becking: Dutch botanist/resistance fighter,   

Jan 07   Arthur moore: Premier of queensland (b. 1876)   

Jan 08   Stark young: Us writer (so red the rose),    

Jan 10   Tadeusz szeligowski: Composer,    

Jan 11   Arthur d nock: English/americans historian (st paul),