July 1963 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1963 President Kennedy arrives in Rome
• 02 Jul 1963 Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings
• 05 Jul 1963 1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon From Me to You at #87
• 06 Jul 1963 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King
• 07 Jul 1963 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
• 08 Jul 1963 US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
• 09 Jul 1963 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
• 11 Jul 1963 South-African ANC Walter Sisulu / Andrew Mlangeni / Govan Mbeki arrested
• 12 Jul 1963 Pauline Reade, 16, is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in Manchester, England. Her remains would be found in July 1987.
• 13 Jul 1963 Early Wynn wins his 300th and last game at age 43.
• 14 Jul 1963 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
• 15 Jul 1963 KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 16 Jul 1963 Amazon carries 190,000 m3 / sec
• 17 Jul 1963 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
• 18 Jul 1963 Failed military coup in Syria
• 19 Jul 1963 Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Siever hits home run number 300.
• 20 Jul 1963 17 African states and Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
• 21 Jul 1963 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas
• 22 Jul 1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
• 24 Jul 1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
• 25 Jul 1963 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
• 26 Jul 1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
• 27 Jul 1963 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
• 28 Jul 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
• 30 Jul 1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
• 31 Jul 1963 Arturo Illia elected President of Argentina

Famous Birthday

• Lisa Kudrow

  American actress, best known for her role as the ditzy Phoebe on the hit show, "Friends.

• Brigitte Nielsen

  Danish actress whose screen credits include: "Red Sonja," and "Beverly Hills Cop II.

• Lisa Rinna

  Soap Opera Actress.

• Phoebe Cates

  Movie Actress.

• Marco Marin

  Italian fencer, champion and winner of an Olympic Silver Medal in the saber fencing at the Barcelona games in 1992.

• Donnie Yen

  Hong Kong film actor.

• Edie Falco

  American actress.

• Alexandra Paul

  American actress and producer.

• Suha Arafat

  Egyptian wife of Yasser Arafat, a striking blonde.

• Henri Leconte

  in France; tennis player (French finalist 1988).

• Karl Malone

  American basketball player.

• Slobodan Zivojinovic
• Béatrice Ardisson
• Ute Lemper

  German chanteuse, known in Europe for outstanding stage performances in hit shows.

• Pascal Payet
• Matti Nykänen

  Finnish championship skiier, highly idiosyncratic behavior in sports and in his personal life.

• Rob Estes

  American actor and director.

• Chris Mullin

  Brooklyn, New York -- NBA forward (Warriors, Pacers, Olympics - Gold - 92).

• Catherine Wilkening
• Fatboy Slim
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Famous Deaths

• Daniel Ruyneman

  Composer, dies at 76.

• John Sutton

  Actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of heart attack at 54.

• Dorian Le Gallienne

  Composer, dies at 48.

• Grant Richards

  Actor (Doug-Doorway to Danger), dies at 48.

• Bernard Freyberg

  New Zealander statesman (Born 1889).

• Sir Robert Chapman

  British soldier and politician (Born 1880).

• Camille Chautemps

  French Radical politician, served three times as Prime Minister of the Third Republic.

• Georg

  German royalty, the second son of King John of Saxony (1801–1873) and his wife Princess Amelia of Bavaria (1801–1877), daughter of King...

• Teddy Wakelam

  English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (Born 1893).

• Ugo Cerletti

  Italian neurologist and academic (d. 1963).

• Frank Mayo

  Actor (Santa Fe Trail), dies of heart attack at 74.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Essex - Easier Said Than Done
2. Jan & Dean - Surf City
3. Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki
4. The Tymes - So Much In Love
5. Bobby Vinton - Blue On Blue

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Gerry & The Pacemakers - I Like It
2. Frank Ifield - Confessin'
3. The Shadows - Atlantis
4. Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise
5. Buddy Holly - Bo Diddley