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Model, Brown Rift Boils Over
Jan 7 The rift between Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell and head coach Paul Brown reaches a boiling point, and Brown is fired
- Jan 8 "Mona Lisa", on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
"Katharina Ismailova"
Jan 8 Dmitri Shostakovich' opera "Katharina Ismailova" premieres in Riga
Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo
Jan 9 Mao Zedong writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
- Jan 11 Beatles release single "Please Please Me" / "Ask Me Why"; peaks at #2 in UK, and #3 in US
Chamberlain Scores 67
Jan 11 SF Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores 67 points in 134-129 defeat to LA Lakers at Cow Palace
- Jan 12 "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1
- Jan 12 Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia v England
"The Bell Jar"
Jan 14 "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is published by Heinemann in the UK, the author commits suicide a month later
"Segregation Now"
Jan 14 George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
Khrushchev's Bomb Claim
Jan 16 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
- Jan 16 Los Angeles night club and music venue The Whiskey A-Go-Go opens (inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2006)
"Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore"
Jan 16 Tennessee Williams' play "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" premieres in America on Broadway, NY
- Jan 17 Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km
- Jan 18 Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)
Elysée Treaty of Cooperation
Jan 22 Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer
- Jan 26 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
- Jan 27 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Jan 27 Yevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec
- Jan 28 "Still" single released by Bill Anderson (Billboard No. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles, 1963)
- Jan 28 -34°F (-37°C), Cynthiana, Kentucky (state record)
NFL Hall of Hall
Jan 29 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football Hall of Fame
Sutherland's Sketchpad Program
Jan 30 Ivan Sutherland submits a thesis containing his Sketchpad program, a forerunner to modern-day graphic user interfaces and computer-aided design programs
"What'd I Say"
Jan 31 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers (later known as The Beatles) record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby"
- Feb 1 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
- Feb 2 Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
- Feb 5 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
- Feb 5 Soviet lunar probe failure
- Feb 8 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
- Feb 8 AFL's Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs
- Feb 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 9 1st test flight of Boeing 727 jet
- Feb 9 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
- Feb 11 American chef Julia Child's show "The French Chef" premieres on WGBH in Boston - one of the first cooking shows in the US
- Feb 11 Beatles record 10 of the 14 tracks for their 1st UK album "Please Please Me"
- Feb 11 CIA Domestic Operations Division created
Event of Interest
Feb 12 Argentina requests the extradition of ex-president Juan Perón
8½
Feb 14 "8½" film directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale, is released (Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film 1964)
- Feb 14 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
Sports History
Feb 15 1st US female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright)
- Feb 15 Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else
- Feb 16 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
- Feb 16 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
- Feb 16 C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down
NBA Record
Feb 16 North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson
The Banality of Evil
Feb 16 Philosopher Hannah Arendt's controversial account of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is first published in "The New Yorker"
- Feb 17 Japanese runner Toru Terasawa runs a world record marathon (2:15:15.8) at the Beppu Marathon on the island of Kyushu, Japan
The Feminine Mystique
Feb 19 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published
Event of Interest
Feb 19 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
- Feb 20 Australian cricket greats Neil Harvey and Alan Davidson play final Test match in drawn 5th Test vs England at the Sydney Cricket Ground
Mays Signs Record Contract
Feb 20 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays becomes the highest-paid player in MLB, signing a record $100,000 contract with the San Francisco Giants
Music History
Feb 23 Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at the Vienna State Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's "La traviata"
Contract of Interest
Feb 27 Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
Music History
Mar 7 John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman record their self-titled album "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman" at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
- Mar 10 SF Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores 70 points in 163-148 defeat to Syracuse Nationals at Onondaga War Memorial
- Mar 11 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
Event of Interest
Mar 11 US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner
Music History
Mar 12 Beatles perform as a trio, at Granada Cinema, in Bedford, England, as John Lennon is ill with a cold
- Mar 13 Indonesia & Netherlands reinstate diplomatic relations
Long Christmas Dinner
Mar 13 Paul Hindemith and Thornton Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in NYC
- Mar 13 Two Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
Music History
Mar 14 Musician Frank Zappa (22) tapes an appearance for syndicated "The Steve Allen Show" - he and the host 'play' bicycles as musical instruments along with the show's orchestra; program airs later in the month
- Mar 15 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting
Beatification
Mar 17 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975)
Closure of Alcatraz
Mar 21 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed
- Mar 21 David Hendon & Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London
- Mar 22 British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
- Mar 22 The Beatles release their 1st album, "Please Please Me"
- Mar 23 Rolf Hochhuth's play "Der Stellvertreter" (The Representative) premieres in Berlin
- Mar 25 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
- Mar 27 Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
The Leopard
Mar 27 Historical film "The Leopard" directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale premieres in Rome, based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Mar 28 AFL's NY Titan's become the NY Jets
- Mar 29 Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone"
- Mar 30 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
- Mar 31 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
- Apr 1 American television soap opera premieres: "General Hospital" (ABC) & "Doctors" (NBC)
Sports History
Apr 1 NY Mets purchase future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Duke Snider from the LA Dodgers for $40,000; Snider had starred for the Brooklyn Dodgers 1947-57
- Apr 1 NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
- Apr 2 Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km)
- Apr 2 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km
- Apr 5 Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
- Apr 5 Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa
- Apr 7 Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors
- Apr 7 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
Academy Awards
Apr 8 35th Academy Awards: "Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win
Sports History
Apr 8 Detroit Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain on waivers from the Chicago White Sox; McLain goes on the win Cy Young Award 1968, 69 and AL MVP 1968
Event of Interest
Apr 9 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
- Apr 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Apr 10 USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston killing 129 men, including 17 civilians
Spahn's Left-Handed Record
Apr 11 Milwaukee Braves future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn beats NY Mets, 6-1 for his 328th win; most by a left-hander in MLB history
Catholic Encyclical
Apr 11 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical "Pacem in terris", that peace between all peoples must be based on truth, justice, love and freedom
- Apr 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Apr 12 Beatles third single, "From Me To You" is released in UK
- Apr 12 Police in Birmingham, Alabama, use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
- Apr 13 Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
- Apr 13 Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
Music History
Apr 14 Quiet Beatle George Harrison is impressed by unsigned British blues band "Rolling Stones"
- Apr 18 Dr James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
- Apr 18 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs go back-to-back with a 3-1 Game 5 win over Detroit Red Wings for a 4-1 series victory
Ring of Fire
Apr 19 Johnny Cash releases single "Ring of Fire" written by his future wife June Carter and Merle Kilgore
- Apr 20 -30] All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
Music History
Apr 21 Beatles meet the Rolling Stones for the 1st time
- Apr 21 The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá'í Faith is elected for the first time
PM Lester B. Pearson
Apr 22 Lester B. Pearson is sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of Canada
- Apr 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Apr 27 "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname
Castro Arrives in Moscow
Apr 27 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
Golf Tournament
Apr 29 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Marilynn Smith beats Mickey Wright by 1 shot in 18-hole playoff
- May 1 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
A Bunny's Tale
May 1 Gloria Steinem's exposé, "A Bunny's Tale", on the working conditions for waitresses (bunnies) at New York City’s famed Playboy Club, published in "Show" magazine
- May 1 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from the Netherlands
Event of Interest
May 2 Children's crusade begins in Birmingham, Alabama. More than 600 African American school children arrested for marching against segregation, organised by James Bevel and the SCLC
- May 3 Birmingham officials turn high pressure hoses and dogs on children's crusade protest against segregation prompting widespread condemnation
- May 3 Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
- May 4 Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
- May 6 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
- May 7 SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
Dr. No Premieres
May 8 1st James Bond film, "Dr. No", starring Sean Connery, premieres in US
- May 8 U.S. President John F. Kennedy offers Israel assistance against aggression from its neighbors
- May 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- May 10 Decca Records sign The Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison [1]
- May 11 "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" single by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2; Peter Yarrow adapted a poem that college classmate Lenny Lipton had left behind after borrowing Yarrow's typewriter
Sports History
May 11 LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax throws his second career no-hitter; beats Juan Marichal and the SF Giants, 8-0
- May 11 Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama
Music History
May 12 Bob Dylan walks out of "The Ed Sullivan Show" over a dispute about his song choice
- May 12 Race riot in Birmingham, Alabama
- May 14 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
5th Grammy Awards
May 15 5th Grammy Awards: "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"; Robert Goulet win
Music History
May 15 Folksinging trio Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy for cover version of Pete Seeger's song "If I Had a Hammer"
- May 15 Last Project Mercury flight launched, Gordon Cooper in Faith 7
- May 16 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury
- May 17 Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
- May 17 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- May 18 "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1
- May 22 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
- May 22 Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
- May 23 16th Cannes Film Festival: "The Leopard" directed by Luchino Visconti wins the Palme d'Or
- May 23 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
- May 24 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
Meeting of Interest
May 24 Barbra Streisand performs "Happy Days Are Here Again" at White House Press Correspondents Dinner, and meets US President John F. Kennedy
- May 25 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
- May 25 Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania and Zambia
Emmy Awards
May 26 15th Emmy Awards: "The Dick Van Dyke Show", E G Marshall & Shirley Booth win
- May 26 Organization of African Unity forms
Election of Interest
May 27 Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st Prime Minister of Kenya
- May 28 Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
- May 28 Estimated 22,000 die in a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal (India)
- Jun 1 "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17
- Jun 3 A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101
- Jun 4 1st broadcast of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio
- Jun 5 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler scandal
- Jun 5 Dutch Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina
Historic Siege
Jun 5 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
- Jun 6 Gasunie, Dutch gas and transportation company established
- Jun 7 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come On"
- Jun 8 American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
- Jun 9 1st Sunday night game in baseball SF Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0
- Jun 9 Barbra Streisand appears, for her third time, on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
- Jun 10 US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy
Vietnamese Monk Burns Himself Alive
Jun 11 Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War's most iconic images
- Jun 11 Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama
- Jun 11 Greek government of Karamanlis resigns
- Jun 11 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act"
Cleopatra Premieres
Jun 12 "Cleopatra" directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton premieres in NYC, then most expensive film ever made
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Jun 12 American civil rights activist Medgar Evers is assassinated by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in Jackson, Mississippi
- Jun 14 NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
- Jun 14 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
- Jun 15 "Sukiyaki" sung by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, hits #1
- Jun 15 American Leonard "Buddy" Edelen runs world record marathon (2:14:28) at Polytechnic Marathon (from Windsor to Chiswick, England)
Ben-Gurion Resigns
Jun 15 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion resigns
Baseball History
Jun 15 SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0
- Jun 16 Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli Prime Minister
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