30 events found for 1963
The United Kingdom granted self-government to Sarawak (first flag pictured), the day would be celebrated as Sarawak Day.
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised…
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South…
American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on…
The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the…
The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing…
Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Malaya, the Colony of Singapore, the Crown Colony…
Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo…
The University of East Anglia (coat of arms featured) was founded in Norwich, England, after talk of establishing a…