Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Takes Effect, October 10, 1963

Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest. Date: July 7, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 7 📅 Events on this day in 1963 📅 On…

Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables. Date: November 22, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 22 📅 Events on this day in 1963 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1963Syncom 2 First Geosynchronous Satellite Launched…

X-15 Flight 91 reaches the highest altitude of the X-15 program (107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet)). Date: August 22, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 22 📅 Events on this day in 1963 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1963Bye Bye Birdie Musical Film Released April 4, 1963Grigoris Lambrakis…

The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time. Date: June 12, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 12 📅 Events on this day in 1963 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1963Turkish…

Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography. Date: November 24, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 24 📅 Events on this…

The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government. Date: June 24, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 24 📅 Events on this day in 1963 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1963March on Washington: Martin Luther King Jr. Gives “I Have a Dream” Speech, August 28, 1963Ba’ath Party Seizes…