March 1963 calendar

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

Famous Birthday

• Quentin Tarantino

  American director, writer, and producer.

• Elle MacPherson
• Jenna de Rosnay
• Vanessa L Williams

  American beauty queen, actress, and singer.

• Roch Voisine

  Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, and radio and television host, Voisine writes and performs in both English and French.

• Joel Osteen

  American evangelical, television preacher.

• Xuxa

  Brazilian top model, actress, singer and recording artist know as a famous cross between Madonna and Capt.

• Jason Newsted

  Bassist.

• David Thewlis

  British actor.

• Alex Kingston

  English actress.

• Kathy Ireland

  American model actress and furniture designer.

• Bret Michaels

  Rock Singer.

• Elisabeth Quin
• Ung-yong Kim
• Jeff Ament

  American bass player and songwriter (Pearl Jam Green River and Mother Love Bone).

• Renaud Hantson

  French singer, drummer, and stage actor, he founded hard rock bands and then played in musicals such as "Starmania" and "La Légende de...

• Anouk Grinberg

  Belgian actress.

• Irène Frachon
• Jerome Flynn

  English actor and singer.

• Fito Páez

  Argentinian singer-songwriter pianist and director.

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Famous Deaths

• Patsy Cline

  American country-western singer, who helped to pave the way for other female singers to become an integral part of the formerly...

• Karl Otten

  Writer, dies at 73.

• Davey Moore

  Dies seconds after KOed in feather-weight championship.

• David Moore

  US feather weight boxer, dies at 29.

• Pola Gojawiczynska

  Polish Author (Stolica), dies at 64.

• William Carlos Williams

  US physician/poet, dies at age 79.

• Kornelis ter Laan

  first Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at age 91.

• Alec A Templeton

  composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at age 52.

• Austin Dobson

  British racing driver (Born 1912).

• Jorge Daponte

  Argentinian race car driver (d. 1963).

• Irish Meusel

  American baseball player and coach (d. 1963).

• Cowboy Copas

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963).

• Hawkshaw Hawkins

  Huntington, West Virginia -- Country singer (Ozark Jubilee).

• Wanda Hawley

  American actress (Born 1895).

• William Henry Squire

  Composer, dies at 91.

• Cyril Smith

  Actor (Adventures of Sir Lancelot), dies at 70.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The 4 Seasons - Walk Like A Man
2. Ruby and the Romantics - Our Day Will Come
3. The Chiffons - He's So Fine
4. Dion - Ruby Baby
5. Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Diamonds
2. Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday
3. Frank Ifield - Wayward Wind
4. The Beatles - Please Please Me
5. Cliff Richard - The Next Time / Bachelor Boy