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| 01 - In Australia, the
Bogle/Chandler case mystifies police |
| 11 - The Whisky-A-Go-Go
(the first real American
discotheque) opens on Sunset Boulevard, Los
Angeles |
| 14 - de Gaulle dashes
British EEC hopes |
| 15 - UN forces bring
breakaway Congo state to heels |
| 22 - France and Germany
sign a treaty of military and political cooperation. Known as the
Elysee Treaty, it marks a turning point for Europe and ends 100 years
of bitterness |
| 26 - Andrew Ridgeley, 50%
of Wham!, is born |
| 28 - Actress Marcia
Hathaway is attacked by a shark in Sydney Harbour, Australia |
| 08 - Premier Abdul Kassem
Karim is assassinated in a military coup in Iraq. Colonel Abdas Saläm
Arif succeeds |
| 14 - Harold Wilson is the
new UK Labour Party leader after the death of Hugh Gaitskell |
| 14 - Surgeons at Leeds
General Infirmary (UK) reveal that two months ago they successfully
transplanted a kidney from a dead man, with the consent of relatives,
into a living patient |
| 18 - The Queen and Prince
Philip arrive in Canberra on their first Australian tour since 1954.
At a reception at Parliament House, Australian Prime Minister Menzies
quoted a Thomas Ford poem in his speech - "I did but see her passing
by and yet I love her till I die" |
| 20 - Ian Brown of UK band
Stone Roses is born |
| 05 - Country singer Patsy
Cline killed in a plane crash |
| 08 - Syrian government is
overthrown by a third military coup |
| 16 - Lord Beveridge,
architect of the British welfare state, dies |
| 17 - 11,000 perish when
volcano erupts in Bali |
| 21 - Alcatraz - the most
notorious prison in the United States - is closed |
| 22 - John Profumo denies
his affair with Christine Keeler in Parliament |
| 25 - Fireball XL5 screens
for the first time on British television |
| 27 - The Beeching Report
announces closure of many British railway lines |
| 01 - The satirical monthly
magazine OZ begins publication in Sydney |
| 02 - Keren Jane Woodward of
Bananarama is born |
| 08 - Liberals win general
election in Canada. Lester B Pearson forms a ministry on April 17th |
| 09 - Winston Churchill is
made an honorary US citizen |
| 10 - Nuclear-powered US
submarine Thresher floods and sinks in Atlantic Ocean during a
test dive |
| 12 - Martin Luther King is
arrested for leading a civil rights march in the southern US state of
Alabama |
| 16 - "Little" Jimmy Osmond
is born |
| 21 - Michael E. De Bakey
implants artificial heart in human for first time at Houston
hospital; plastic device functions and patient lives for four days |
| 21 -
The Beatles and
The Rolling Stones meet for the first time at the Stones' regular Sunday
evening gig at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, West London |
| 29 - 307 year old Dutch
shipwreck Gilt Dragon yields silver doubloons off Western
Australia coast |
| 09 - US Naval base to be
established at North West Cape in Western Australia |
| 11 - British spy Greville
Wynne sentenced in Moscow spy trial |
| 14 - New 'Identikit' snares
Australian serial murderer 'The Mutilator'. Sydney police arrest
William McDonald |
| 15 - US astronaut Gordon
Cooper orbits the Earth 22 times and performs a perfect splashdown |
| 18 - US Federal troops are
sent by President Kennedy to quell race riots in Alabama |
| 03 - Pope John XXII dies
and is replaced on June 29 by Pope Paul VI |
| 05 - British Cabinet
Minister John Profumo quits after a scandal links him to model
Christine Keeler |
| 05 - Dr Stephen Ward at center
of sex and security scandal in UK |
| 10 - US Federal legislation
requires that women receive equal pay for equal work |
| 11 - University of Alabama
is desegregated, over the protests of Governor George C Wallace, who
only steps aside to let black students in the university doors when
confronted by the National Guard |
| 11 - In Greece, the
opposition party led by George Papandreou questions the legitimacy of
the 1961 election. PM Constantine Karamanlis resigns |
| 16 - Russia puts first
woman into space. Valentina Tereshkova orbits the Earth 48 times in
Vostok 6 |
| 17 - US Supreme Court rules
no locality may require recitation of Lord's Prayer or Bible verses
in public schools |
| 19 - Singer
Paula Abdul is
born |
| 25 - George Michael (Georgios
Panayiotou) is born |
| 26 - President Kennedy
visits West Berlin and makes his famous anti-communist speech
declaring "Ich bin ein Berliner" |
| 29 - Cardinal Montini is
elected as Pope Paul VI |
| 01 - Kim Philby was the
"third man", British MPs are told |
| 21 - Ord Dam ushers in
great experiment in Australia |
| 31 - Norman Cook (The
Housemartins/Fat
Boy Slim) is born |
| 03 -
The Beatles make their
final appearance at The Cavern in Liverpool |
| 05 - USA, USSR and UK sign
a nuclear test ban treaty, prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons
in the atmosphere, outer space and under water |
| 08 - Great Train Robbery
nets £2.5million in England - The robbery of the Glasgow-London Royal Mail train in
Buckinghamshire is the biggest haul in British history |
| 09 - Whitney Houston is
born |
| 09 - First TV broadcast of
legendary British pop TV show Ready Steady Go |
| 28 - "I have a dream" says Reverend Luther King as 200,000 marchers converge on Washington DC |
| 30 - Washington-to-Moscow
“hot line” communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of
accidental war |
| 01 - British spy Guy
Burgess dies in Moscow |
| 10 - American Express
charge card launched in Britain |
| 15 - A church bombing in
Birmingham, Alabama (USA) leaves four black girls dead |
| 20 - In Australia, Lake
Burley Griffin in Canberra begins filling with the blocking of the
Molonglo River |
| 01 - Nigeria becomes an
independent republic |
| 04 - Pint-sized Scottish
songstress and future Opportunity Knocks winner, Lena Zavaroni, is
born |
| 10 - Harold Macmillan
resigns as British PM following a report censuring the governments
handling of the Profumo Affair. He is succeeded by Sir Alec
Douglas-Home |
| 10 - Australian VFL legend,
Roy Cazaly dies |
| 11 - French singer Edith
Piaf dies |
| 15 - West German Chancellor
Adenauer resigns and is replaced by Dr Ludwig Erhard |
| 24 - Australia contracts to
purchase 24 F-111 bombers from the US for the RAAF |
| 31 - Johnny Marr (The
Smiths) is born |
| 01 - South Vietnamese
government of Ngo Dinh Diem is overthrown by South Vietnamese forces.
The US recognizes provisional government of Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Diem's
Vice-President |
| 01 - Rick Allen (Def
Leppard) is born |
| 02 - Unpopular leader of
South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem killed in US-supported military coup |
| 15 - In Australia,
Queensland police evict Aborigines and raze their buildings to make
room for bauxite mining |
| 22 - President John F
Kennedy is assassinated while riding in a motorcade through Dallas,
Texas. Former Marine Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested |
| 22 - Lyndon Baines Johnson
is sworn in as the 36th US President |
| 24 - Kennedy's alleged assassin Lee
Harvey Oswald is shot dead in Dallas Police Headquarters by
small-time
crook Jack Ruby as millions watch on TV |
| 30 - Conservatives win in
Australia and NZ |
| 01 - Menzies Government
wins Australian federal election |
| 06 - Christine Keeler
jailed for nine months for perjury |
| 08 - A Boeing 707 airliner
is struck by lightning near Elkton, Maryland (USA) causing it to
crash. 81 passengers are killed |
| 11 - Kidnapped son of
Frank Sinatra is freed after $240,000 ransom is paid |
| 12 - Kenya wins
independence |
| 14 - 'Queen of the Blues'
Dinah Washington is found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills at
her home in Detroit |
| 21 - England cricketer Sir
Jack Hobbs dies, aged 81 |
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Jun 05 - British Cabinet Minister John Profumo quits
Jul 01 - Kim Philby named as "third man"
Aug 08 - Great Train Robbery nets £2.5million - biggest haul in British
history
Aug 28 - 200,000 marchers in Washington DC to hear Martin Luther King
Sep 05 - Christine Keeler is jailed in tears
Nov 22 - President John F Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
 Carbon Fibre
is developed in the UK
The audio
cassette is developed in Holland
Colour
Polaroid film introduced by the Polaroid Corporation, Boston
The hologram
is developed by Emmett Leith and Julius Upatnicks at the University of Michigan
Friction
Welding invented in the Soviet Union
'Gatum
Gatum' wins the Melbourne Cup
Quote of the Year
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have
guided missiles and misguided men"
Martin Luther King
1963 - Time of your Life
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1963 FA Cup Final
Man Utd vs Leicester
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