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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in March 1963.
The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Macmillan (Conservative), Pope John XXIII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on March 1963: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of March 1963?


Events

  • 01 Mar 1963 200,000 French mine workers strike.
  • 05 Mar 1963 Beatles record From Me to You andThank You Girl
  • 08 Mar 1963 Syrian Arab Republic Revolution Day: Military coup in Syria.
  • 09 Mar 1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez
  • 10 Mar 1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his two first at bats in spring training.
  • 11 Mar 1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain.
  • 12 Mar 1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
  • 13 Mar 1963 Russians make two reconnaissance flights over Alaska.
  • 14 Mar 1963 San Francisco's Guy Rodgers ties NBA record with 28 assists.
  • 15 Mar 1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
  • 16 Mar 1963 Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
  • 17 Mar 1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali kills 1,500 Balinese.
  • 18 Mar 1963 Tovarich opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances
  • 20 Mar 1963 1st Pop Art exhibition
  • 21 Mar 1963 Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
  • 22 Mar 1963 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
  • 23 Mar 1963 American boxer Davey Moore dies seconds after being knocked-out in feather-weight boxing championship at age 29.
  • 25 Mar 1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
  • 27 Mar 1963 Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
  • 29 Mar 1963 Final episode of soap opera Young Doctor Malone
  • 30 Mar 1963 Indigenous Australians legally allowed to drink alcohol in New South Wales.''Tracker'', quotFootprints Trackerquot, August 2012, p. 46.
  • 31 Mar 1963 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
  • 05 Mar 1963 American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
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Music charts

Which were the top hits in March 1963?
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Top #5 songs in the USA

  1. - Walk Like A Man
  2. - Our Day Will Come
  3. - He's So Fine
  4. - Ruby Baby
  5. - The End Of The World

Top #5 songs in the UK

  1. - Diamonds
  2. - Summer Holiday
  3. - Wayward Wind
  4. - Please Please Me
  5. - The Next Time / Bachelor Boy

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?

Books

Which were the most popular books released in March 1963?

Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

Fail-Safe

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Something is wrong. An American group of bombers equipped with nuclear weapons are moving beyond the fail-safe line, beyond recall, and nobody knows why.

The Fall Of The Dynasties by Edmond Taylor

The Fall Of The Dynasties

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The most popular history of the best type . . An excellent book that ranks with Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August or Alan Moorehead’s Gallipoli.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction by J.D. Salinger

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour-An Introduction

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The author wrote: The two long pieces of this book were originally published in The New Yorker. RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS, 1955, SEYMOUR 1959 Introduction.

A Shade Of Difference by Allen Drury

A Shade Of Difference

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This is the sequel to Advise and Consent, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller. A novel about the United Nations and racial friction by Allen Drury.

Seven Days In May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II

Seven Days In May

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