Year in Review: 1963 Highlights and Endings
In 1963 notable events include Jack Carson and Dick Powell dying of cancer. Mona Lisa unveiled in Washington. Sylvanus Olympio assassinated. Khrushchev's East Berlin visit. Kennedy's tax cut push and deficit call. Hugh Gaitskell dies. U.N. troops end Katanga secession. Robert Frost dies. France bars Britain from the EEC.
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Jack Carson
Dick Powell
Washingon
Togo
Sylvanus Olympio
Khrushchev
East Berlin
Kennedy
Eee
Congress
Hugh Gaitskell
U.N
Moise Tshombe
Katanga
Congo
Robert Frost
France
Britain
World War Era Headlines Span Crises and Tragedies
A long list of 1960s events detailing political upheavals and disasters worldwide. Includes Canadian government loss of confidence, Iraqi leadership changes, violent clashes in Cuba and the Caribbean, and a deadly Florida jetliner crash.
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Ecuador
Diefenbaker
U.S
Kassem
Iraq
Abdul Salam Aref
Florida Everglades
Willy Brandt
West Berlin
Caribbean
Cuba
Russia
China
Space Year 1963 Remembered as a Dull Run for NASA
A 1963 review notes a bleak year for U S space efforts with only a few success stories. Mercury's Faith 7 mission stood out despite crew tensions and budget battles. Gemini, Titan 2 and the Vostok linked flights faced delays, while the Soviet program highlighted Bykovsky Tereshkova and Polyot 1 missions. Cape Kennedy renamed Kennedy. Andrian Nikolayev married in orbit amid Cold War space races.
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Alvin B. Webb JR
Cape Kennedy
UPI
America
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
U. S
Cape Veral
Cane Kennedy
Astro
Frank Merriwell
Cooper
Falth
Space Agency
Soviet Union
Valery Bykovsky
Valentina Tereshkoval
Bykovsky
Tereshkova
United States
U.S
Syncoms
Telestar
Centaur
Nimbus
U.S. Weather Bureau
Wernher von Braun
Andrian Nikolayev
Kova
Moonport
Kennedy
Cape Canaveral
Johnson
Almanac: December 29 1963 historical notes
The entry marks Sunday December 29 1963 as the 363rd day of the year with two to follow. It lists events such as Texas entering the Union in 1845 and Boston hosting America's first YMCA in 1851. It notes Hitler bombing London in 1949 and Henry Wallace's 1947 presidential nomination remarks.
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Mt. Everest
Birmingham
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Margaretta Murphy
U.S
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Canada
Pearson
Kennedy
Cape Cod
Gordon Cooper
Earth
Sukarno
John XXIII
Les Diem
South Viet Nam
Diem
Brother Nhu
West Berlin
Rockefeller
United States
Tokyo
Yale
Frederick C. Barghoorn
Moscow
Barghoorn
America
Atlantic City
Argentina
Cambodia
Dallas
Tex
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lee Oswald
Norwalk
Ohio
Oswald
Jack Ruby
United Press International
Texas
Young Men’s Christian Association
Boston
Adolf Hitler
London
Henry Wallac
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