May 1963 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands.
• 03 May 1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivers his I have a dream speech
• 04 May 1963 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of five balks in a game.
• 05 May 1963 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open.
• 06 May 1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman
• 07 May 1963 Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ
• 08 May 1963 Dr No premieres in US
• 09 May 1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 10 May 1963 Decca signs the Rolling Stones on advice of The Beatles' George Harrison.
• 11 May 1963 Puff (The Magic Dragon) by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2
• 12 May 1963 Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
• 13 May 1963 The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
• 14 May 1963 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations.
• 15 May 1963 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
• 16 May 1963 Beast in Me opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 17 May 1963 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site.
• 18 May 1963 Beast in Me closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 4 performances
• 19 May 1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open.
• 20 May 1963 Sukarno appointed President of Indonesia.
• 22 May 1963 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
• 23 May 1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for US$926,000.
• 24 May 1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
• 25 May 1963 Hot Spot closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 43 performances
• 26 May 1963 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth
• 27 May 1963 Jomo Kenyatta elected first prime minister of Kenya.
• 28 May 1963 Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal
• 30 May 1963 A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.

Famous Birthday

• Sophie Davant

  French journalist and TV host.

• Élise Lucet

  French investigative journalist and television host.

• Natasha Richardson

  British actress and noted theatrical family.

• Mike Myers

  Canadian actor and comedian.

• Albert Delegue

  French model from the age of 26.

• Laurence Boccolini

  French radio and television host.

• Viktor Orbán

  Hungarian politician 38th Prime Minister of Hungary.

• Michel Gondry

  French filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter.

• Alessandra Ferri

  British ballerina (American Ballet Theater).

• Tracey E Bregman

  American actress.

• Florence Parly

  French politician and senior government official, who was Secretary of State for the Budget from 2000 to 2002.

• Deborah Kara Unger

  Canadian actress.

• Heinz Weixelbraun
• Loïc Pochet
• Anne Consigny
• Lisa Nowak

  American commander and astronaut.

• Jeff Hornacek

  American basketball player, known for his off-balance shots and sweet ability to sink three-point shots.

• Emilio Maillé
• Frédérique Guétat-Liviani
• Brenda Bakke

  American actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Stanislaw Wiechowicz

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Tomas Vackar

  Composer, dies at 17.

• Heinrich Gebhard

  Composer.

• Monty Wooley

  Actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74.

• Lambrakis

  Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered.

• Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin

  Composer, dies at 60.

• Theodore von Karman

  Hungarian-born physicist (Born 1881).

• Bobby Kerr

  Canadian runner (Born 1882).

• Carel C van Essen

  archaeologist (Art of Ancient Rome), dies at age 63.

• Lope K Santos

  Filipino writer, father of the Filipino language (Born 1879).

• Gene ''Big Daddy'' Lipscomb

  American football player (Born 1931).

• John Wilce

  American physician and former head football coach at the Ohio State University (Born 1888).

• Gregoris Lambrakis

  Greek physician and politician (Born 1912).

• Ernie Davis

  American football player (Born 1939).

• Elmore James

  American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (Born 1918).

• Walter Russell

  American painter sculptor and author (d. 1963).

• Alois Hudal

  Austrian-born Catholic bishop who assisted Nazi war criminals in escaping (Born 1885).

• Richard Girulatis

  German footballer and manager (d. 1963).

• Van Wyck Brooks

  US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at age 77.

• Sharon Lynn

  Actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast), dies at 53.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
2. Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy
3. Lesley Gore - It's My Party
4. Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You
5. Peter, Paul & Mary - Puff (The Magic Dragon)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Gerry & The Pacemakers - How Do You Do It?
2. The Beatles - From Me To You
3. Ned Miller - From A Jack To A King
4. Cliff Richard - Summer Holiday
5. Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You