Mount Agung Eruption Kills Over 1,100 on Bali – March 17, 1963
Date: March 17, 1963
Date: March 17, 1963
The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad ends operation. Date: January 21, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 21 π Events on this day in 1963 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1963Bluenose II Launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, July 24, 1963Bloody Christmas Begins in Cyprus, Displacing Turkish…
U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation. Date: April 16, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on April 16 π Events on this day in 1963…
An oxygen leak from an R-9 Desna missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people. Date: October 24, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on October 24 π Events on this day in 1963 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1963Project Mercury: Gordon Cooperβs Final Solo…
NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement. Date: June 12, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on June 12 π Events on this day in 1963 π On This Day…
Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. Date: October 4, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on October 4 π Events on this day in 1963 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1963Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins Killed in Plane Crash March 5, 1963First Universal House of Justice Election Establishes…
ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail. Date: July 1, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on July 1 π Events on this day in 1963 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1963ThΓch QuαΊ£ng Δα»©c Self-Immolates in Saigon for Religious Freedom, June 11, 1963South Vietnamese Fire on Buddhists, Sparking…