August 1963 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1963 Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale
• 02 Aug 1963 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17
• 03 Aug 1963 No Strings closes at 84th St. Theater NYC after 580 performances
• 04 Aug 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
• 05 Aug 1963 Britain, US and the USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
• 07 Aug 1963 Jac Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs Cleveland
• 08 Aug 1963 Kingsmen release Louie, Louie, radio stations label it obscene
• 09 Aug 1963 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres
• 10 Aug 1963 Estes Kefauver, American politician (Democrat-Senator-Tennessee) dies at age 60.
• 12 Aug 1963 Portuguese Dictator Salazar firm on African colonization
• 13 Aug 1963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
• 15 Aug 1963 Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville
• 16 Aug 1963 Independence is restored to Dominican Republic.
• 17 Aug 1963 Jim Hickman becomes the first New York Mets player to hit for the cycle.
• 18 Aug 1963 James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi
• 19 Aug 1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
• 21 Aug 1963 Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas
• 22 Aug 1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches altitude of 67 miles (106 km).
• 23 Aug 1963 Beatles release She Loves You in the UK
• 24 Aug 1963 Don Schollander swims the 200-metre freestyle in less than 2 minutes for the first time, in a world record time of 1:58.
• 28 Aug 1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens
• 29 Aug 1963 Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
• 30 Aug 1963 Hot Line communications link between Washington DC and Moscow begins.
• 31 Aug 1963 Hot line between Moscow-Washington, DC installed

Famous Birthday

• Emmanuelle Béart

  French film actress, who has appeared in over 60 film and television productions since 1972.

• Whitney Houston

  American pop diva with a three octave range, a spectacular video and film actress.

• James Hetfield

  American musician, he is co-founder of the heavy metal band Metallica.

• Tori Amos

  American singer-songwriter who helped revive the singer-songwriter traditions of the '70s and brought back the piano as a rock & roll...

• John Stamos

  TV Actor.

• Sridevi

  Indian actress and singer.

• Patrick Pelloux

  French doctor, emergency physician and union activist, widely known for his role during the 2003 heat wave (in August).

• Lisa Ann Walter

  American actress.

• Joe Tempest
• Coolio

  American rapper.

• Mohammed VI of Morocco
• Eléonore Klarwein
• Elizabeth Fraser

  Scottish singer-songwriter (Cocteau Twins).

• Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
• Mark Strong
• Shankar (director)
• Phoolan Devi

  Indian lawyer and politician (d. 2001).

• Carol Lewis

  American track and field athlete, the winner of the Bronze Medal at the World Games in Helsinki for holding the record on the indoor long...

• Isaiah Washington

  American actor.

• Hideo Kojima

  Japanese video game director.

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Famous Deaths

• Clifford Odets

  US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57.

• Theodore Roethke

  United States -- Poet (Words for the Wind).

• William Richard Morris

  1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer.

• William Edward Burghardt du Bois

  Educational editor / author.

• Axel Stordahl

  Orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50.

• Tom Keene

  Actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68.

• Larry Keating

  Actor (George Burns Show, Roger-Mr Ed), dies at 67.

• Guy Burgess

  English-born Soviet spy (Born 1911).

• W E B Du Bois

  scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at age 95 in Accra, Ghana.

• George F Broque

  cubist painter, dies at age 81 in Paris, France.

• Kathleen Parlow

  Canadian violinist (Born 1890).

• Joan Voute

  Dutch astronomer (Born 1879).

• Allama Mashriqi

  Pakistani scholar and politician (Born 1888).

• Georges Braque

  French painter, the founder of Cubism who is considered one of the creators of modern art along with Picasso.

• Patrick Kennedy

  American politician and noted family, the son of Joan and Ted Kennedy.

• Clifford Odets

  American playwright, actor, director and artist.

• Garrett Morgan

  American inventor (Born 1877).

• Glen Gray

  American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (Born 1900).

• John Powell

  American discus thrower.

• Ernst Wetter

  Swiss lawyer and politician 48th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1963).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Tymes - So Much In Love
2. Little Stevie Wonder - Fingertips - Pt 2
3. The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back
4. The Surfaris - Wipe Out
5. Peter, Paul & Mary - Blowin' In The Wind

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Frank Ifield - Confessin'
2. The Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet
3. Gerry & The Pacemakers - I Like It
4. Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise
5. Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - Bad To Me