1963
Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years: 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 - 1963 - 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968
Births
- February 11 - Todd Benzinger, American baseball player.
Deaths
- February 11 - Sylvia Plath, poet/novelist.
- June 3 - Pope John XXIII
- November 22 -
- John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald
- novelist Aldous Huxley
- C.S. Lewis - novelist, Christian apologist, and English professor
Events
- February 11 - The Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album, including "Please, Please Me".
- February 11 - CIA Domestic Operations Division is created.
- June 22 - Pope Paul VI is elected by College of Cardinals.
- August 28 - Martin Luther King delivers his "I have a dream" speech on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
- September 29 - Opening of second period of Second Vatican Council in Rome.
- November 22 - Lyndon Johnson succeeds John F. Kennedy as President of the United States of America
- December 4 - Closing of second period of Second Vatican Council.
Technology
- - End of the Mercury program of U.S. manned spaceflight
- - Frisch and Smith prove radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion. (See Einstein's Special Relativity and General Relativity).
- - Syncom, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite is orbited by NASA.
- - Full deployment of SAGE, the semi-automated ground environment.
- - TAT-3 cable goes into operation.
- Physics - Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
- Chemistry - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
- Medicine - Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
- Literature - Giorgos Seferis
- Peace - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
Books