1963JanuaryJanuary 1: Colonel Fawcett is greeted by the British Consul-General from Manaus on his arrival in Cuiabá and escorted to the estate of a local British businessman under heavy guard.
January 2: Vietcong troops inflict a tactical defeat on a larger South Vietnamese Army force at the Battle of Ap Bac, before being forced to retreat in the face of heavy USAF and French air strikes.
January 3: 32 Soviet citizens force their way into the US Embassy in Moscow and plead for asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.
January 4: France conducts a test launch of a new long range ICBM from Clipperton to Muroroa in the South Pacific.
January 5: Peruvian security forces begin rounding up suspected communists and subversives across the nation.
January 6: The Shah of Persia proclaims an extensive programme of reforms, later termed the 'White Revolution'.
January 7: In a meeting of the US National Security Council, President Kennedy decides upon a limited programme of selective mobilisation of appropriate military assets in reaction to the parlous situation in South Vietnam.
January 8: Broadway debut of the musical
Oliver! at the Imperial Theatre
January 9: An Australian merchant ship strikes a sea mine off the coast of Western New Guinea and is sunk with the loss of 36 lives.
January 10: Percy Fawcett is flown into London by a specially chartered British South American Airways Comet amid tight security.
January 11: The South African Ministry of War announces the deployment of a combined South African Army and Royal South African Air Force task force to Germany for service with the British Army of the Rhine.
January 12: President Kennedy announces the call up of 40,000 US Army Reserve troops and the federalisation of the 27th and 36th Infantry Divisions of the National Guard in a televised speech from the Oval Office on the security situation in South Vietnam and Europe, citing the lessons of the Korean War and declaring that the United States would "unflinchingly lead the Free World in defence of liberty and defiance of aggression."
January 13: The
Flying Scotsman sets a new record speed for the London to Edinburgh service, completing the journey in 73 minutes.
January 14: Jim Folsom is sworn in as Governor of Alabama.
January 15: President Kennedy calls on Congress to pass his proposed sweeping programme of taxation cuts to stimulate the American economy in his State of the Union address.
January 16: Cuba officially joins the Federation of the West Indies, substantially increasing its population and economic strength.
January 17: Nazi concentration camp guard Hermine Braunsteiner is captured by Nazi hunters in New York City.
January 18: The French Government vetoes a proposed move by Chrysler to obtain a controlling interest in the Simca automobile company.
January 19: Democratic elections are held in the British Crown Colony of Kuwait.
January 20: Indonesian Foreign Minister Subiandro declares Indonesia and the British Empire to be in a state of profound confrontation over the issues of Borneo and the Dutch East Indies in a fiery speech in Jakarta.
January 21: The Soviet Defence Ministry orders the initiation of development of a solid fueled medium range ballistic missile.
January 22: France and Germany sign an agreement reducing mutual tariffs on a limited range of industrial goods in the first sign of thawing relations between the two European powers since the Second World War.
January 23: Maiden flight of the Hawker Siddeley Trident jet airliner.
January 24: A USAF B-52 flying airborne alert duty crashes on Elephant Mountain, Maine, killing seven of the crew and damaging one of the unarmed nuclear bombs on board.
January 25: The British Cabinet approves the construction of the first mosque in Britain, despite significant submissions from the Church of England, the Templars and other groups.
January 26: British and Indian monitoring stations in the Himalayas pick up strong traces of radiation emanating from deep within Kokonur.
January 27: Stanley Barton declares that he is against the notion of a tunnel beneath the English Channel.
January 28: The US Navy strikes 8 aircraft carriers, 11 cruisers, 42 destroyers and 78 destroyer escorts in the newest wave of the Kennedy Administration's cuts of the reserve fleet. Under current projections, the eight Essex class ASW carriers will be decommissioned to reserve by 1965, with their role being taken up by the other eight Essexes currently operating in the attack carrier role.
January 29: CIA clandestine sources within the Soviet Union report that a suspected radiation accident has occurred in a closed city in the Urals.
January 30: Britain conducts a successful test interception of a long range ballistic missile with the Violet Friend ABM system in the South Pacific.
January 31: Establishment of the Royal West Indian Armoured Corps.
FebruaryFebruary 1: 104 people are killed in the collapse of a convent school in Ecuador.
February 2: The world record for the pole vault is broken by Finnish athlete Pennti Nikula.
February 3: Reestablishment of the headquarters of the RAF Third and Fourth Tactical Air Forces as reserve formations.
February 4: SS
Marine Sulphur Queen disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.
February 5: Gunmen fire upon the British embassy in Saigon, wounding five diplomats and Royal Marine guards.
February 6: 24 RAF Spectre fighter-bombers flying out of aerodromes in Malaya conduct airstrikes on suspected Viet Cong targets in South Vietnam in retaliation for the embassy attack of the previous day.
February 7: Chaos strikes the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo as a mummy suddenly awakes on goes on a rampage before being subdued by a pith-helmeted British professor and his ape companion.
February 8: A wave of strange sickness is reported through Eastern Europe, Austria-Hungary and Yugoslavia.
February 9: The RAF begins deployment of nuclear armed Bristol Blue Envoy Mark III surface-to-air missiles as an interim ABM system pending the fielding of the Violet Friend missile.
February 10: US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy embarks on a 50 mile hike as part of the President's physical fitness challenge.
February 11: Establishment of the Domestic Operations Division of the Central Intelligence Agency.
February 12: Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
February 13: Beginning of a separatist rebellion in southwestern Uganda.
February 14: Introduction of TaB, Coca-Cola's first diet soft drink.
February 15: Reverend Elvis Presley begins private investigations of a disturbing cult after being approached by several members of his Whitehaven congregation regarding the recruitment of their children.
February 16: 36 USAF B-47s strike suspected Viet Cong targets in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.
February 17: The Soviet Union vetoes the application of Ceylon for membership of the League of Nations.
February 18: Mount Agung in Bali erupts, killing over 1000 people.
February 19: Turkey conducts a test of a medium range ballistic missile, causing considerable consternation in Greece.
February 20: The head of the Japanese Communist Party is assassinated by ninjas.
February 21: An earthquake destroys the city of Al Maraj in Libya.
February 22: President Kennedy establishes the Presidential Medal of Freedom by executive order.
February 23: Imperial Police and British Army forces arrest 150 suspected rebels in a series of coordinated raids across Cyprus.
February 24: Beginning of joint Arab League military exercises in Iraq and Syria.
February 25: American, British and French military officials reach an agreement on the proposed deployment of German troops to South Vietnam.
February 26: Pro-independence protests paralyse Rangoon for much of the afternoon.
February 27: Introduction of female suffrage in Persia.
February 28: A story in the Washington Post alleges that an unnamed Englishman was responsible for the assassination of Dominican dictator Trujillo in 1961.
MarchMarch 1: The Air Ministry announces plans for the Vickers Valiant to be phased out of frontline Royal Air Force service by 1967.
March 2: First successful liver transplant operation.
March 3: A federal court in Alabama sentences three Klu Klux Klan members to death for treason.
March 4: Heavy fighting takes place across Algiers as French forces launch a new crackdown on rebel elements.
March 5: Country singer Patsy Cline survives a aeroplane crash.
March 6: The coldest winter in the 20th century comes to an end in Britain.
March 7: US Secretary of Defense Dr. Clark Savage cancels further development of the YF-109 rocket fighter.
March 8: Dozens of Syrian Army officers are arrested on suspicion of plotting a coup by the loyalist Royal Guard; the French military advisory mission remains officially uninvolved.
March 9: The King of Afghanistan arrives in London for a state visit.
March 10: Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army Field Marshal Moshe Dayan orders the commissioning of an extensive study on the modernisation of the Israeli Defence Forces in the light of expanding Arab military power.
March 11: Hundreds of people in Honolulu report a low-flying UFO criss-crossing the night sky above the Hawaiian capital several times.
March 12: Retirement of the last English Electric Canberra light bombers from active RAF service.
March 13: Doug Jones beats the highly fancied Cassius Clay in a bout at Madison Square Garden.
March 14: Soviet maritime reconnaissance aircraft come within 10nm of US airspace near Midway, sparking an air defence alert across the Northern Pacific.
March 15: Condemned federal inmate Victor Feguer is hanged in Iowa.
March 16: Eruption of Mount Agung on Bali, killing 1150 people.
March 17: Beatification of Elizabeth Ann Seton.
March 18: Britain and Italy sign an expansive arms export agreement, including hundreds of new artillery pieces and aircraft.
March 19: Anak Krakatoa begins erupting.
March 20: Unveiling of the Morris Mini-Minor Mark II.
March 21: Discovery of strange Atlantean ruins in the foothills of the Andes in Argentina.
March 22: Reverend Elvis Presley leads a hastily assembled posse on a midnight raid on the underground headquarters of the strange cult, freeing the brainwashed children, destroying an obscene pagan idol and vanquishing the chanting high priest and his demented minions with the aid of his karate and trusty power sword. Local police, the FBI and Department of Magic officials rush to provide support after receiving reports of the wording of the cultists' chants.
March 23: A secret meeting of Strategic Direction Committee of the Imperial General Headquarters of Japan in Tokyo decides on the clandestine development of a capacity to build atomic weapons.
March 24: French intelligence assets report that the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces have begun testing of a new medium range missile.
March 25: Argentina announces that it has selected the Vickers design for its new capital ships.
March 26: The average cost of a new house in the United States is recorded as $10,600.
March 27: A mysterious outbreak of black water fever around Saigon leads US and French military doctors to suspect that it might be the result of germ warfare.
March 28: British opinion polls give Labour a narrow lead over the Conservative government, attracting 33% to 32%, with the Liberals on 27%.
March 29: Indonesian television broadcasts begin to experience disruption, which the government ascribes to British and Australian jamming.
March 30: The GRU establishes a psychic warfare research branch.
March 31: Publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's latest fantasy epic, the 1984 page
Akallabêth, which depicts the rise and destruction of an island akin to historical Atlantis and the subsequent travails of the surviving remnant.
April April 1: The BBC runs a story on the preparations of the first British expedition to cross the Andes by frog.
April 2: Strategic Air Command deploys two wings of B-52s to Guam as part of a general USAF build-up in the Western Pacific.
April 3: A proposal by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry for eventual union between Iraq and Kuwait is dismissed out of hand by the British Ambassador.
April 4: The US Army begins fielding upgraded M102 heavy tanks in armoured units of the Seventh Army.
April 5: Ferdinand Marcos is elected President of the Philippine Senate.
April 6: Boots Randolph releases his well-known novelty record
Yaketty Sax.
April 7: Jack Niklaus becomes the youngest player to win the US Masters golf tournament.
April 8: The 35th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with
Lawrence of Arabia winning Best Picture and Gregory Peck and Anne Bancroft winning Best Actor and Best Actress.
April 9: A joint sitting of the United States Congress awards Sir Winston Churchill, the Duke of London honourary US citizenship.
April 10: The United States begins the emplacement of very long range ballistic missile warning radars at several locations across Europe and the Middle East.
April 11: Prime Minister Eden rules out the possibility of an early general election in an interview with the BBC.
April 12: Soviet nuclear submarine
K-93 collides with a Finnish merchant ship in the Danish Straits, severely damaging both vessels.
April 13: US Army UH-1 armed helicopters strike at Viet Cong targets along the Thu Bon river in support of South Vietnamese and French troops.
April 14: Discovery of a sunken Dutch ship off the coast of Western Australia.
April 15: A White House press release announces that First Lady Jackie Kennedy is pregnant.
April 16: The Royal Swedish Air Force begins the installation of Triumph missiles on Bornholm.
April 17: Representatives of Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Jordan sign a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of a federal Arab Union.
April 18: General elections are called in Korea by order of the Emperor.
April 19: Trotsky makes a rare public appearance at a rally in São Paulo.
April 20: Establishment of the
Istituto Nazionale per le Richerche Spaziali in Rome.
April 21: A prospector in Colorado discovers what he claims to be a lost city.
April 22: President Kennedy starts the one-year countdown to the opening of the 1964 New York World's Fair by telephone from the Oval Office.
April 23: Crew members onboard an experimental Soviet nuclear powered aircraft are exposed to an estimated 3.6 roentgen of radiation per hour over an 8 hour flight due to a fault in the shielding of their crew compartment and a malfunctioning dosimeter.
April 24: A madman attempts to release all of the pythons in London Zoo.
April 25: Israel conducts a successful test of a medium range ballistic missile in South Africa.
April 26: AT&T introduces the first prototype touch-type telephone.
April 27: A USMC UH-34 Seahorse is shot down over Do Xa, South Vietnam.
April 28: The Christian Democrats are returned to power in the Italian general election.
April 29: President Kennedy declines to forward deploy US biological weapons to South East Asia, but authorises the movement of chemical warheads and Redstone missiles to Clark Air Force Base.
April 30: A Lebanese cargo ship catches fire off the coast of Eastbourne and is beached by the escaping crew.
MayMay 1: The International Revolutionary Army stages a series of coordinated terrorist attacks and bank raids across Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
May 2: Formation of the first Royal Marine aviation squadrons.
May 3: Commissioning of the world's largest super battleship, the
Yamato, in Kure
May 4: 185 people are killed in the sinking of an overloaded motor launch on the Nile in Cairo.
May 5: NASA announces that an exploratory expedition of three new spaceships to the asteroid belt will be launched in July 1964, providing the first major test of the Orion Programme.
May 6: A fresh outbreak of violence in the Congo kills over 200 civilians.
May 7: A sensationalist American newspaper article claims that Hitler survived the war and is hiding in South America.
May 8: The Shah of Persia receives a parliamentary petition calling for the withdrawal of foreign forces by the beginning of 1964.
May 9: Maiden flight of the MiG-23 air superiority jet fighter-bomber, developed as a direct response to the challenge of the US Phantom, the French Mirage and the British Merlin.
May 10:
Der Spiegel begins the first in a series of ten articles on the German economic miracle of the 1950s and 1960s, or
Wirtschaftswunder.
May 11: A Soviet-sponsored non-binding motion of the Assembly of the League of Nations condemns the colonial powers for not expediting decolonisation.
May 12: The United States Space Corp and USAF complete the process of emplacing a series of Missile Defense Alarm System satellites in Earth orbit.
May 13: An outbreak of smallpox begins in Stockholm, Sweden.
May 14: Kenya and Ceylon are admitted as members of the League of Nations.
May 15: The first non-dwarven team wins the National Barbecue Championship in Kansas City.
May 16: Beginning of a major Atlantic Alliance military exercise in Norway and Denmark, Exercise Sunflower.
May 17: A NASA rocketship takes off from Cape Canaveral bound for Mars, with the aim of smashing previous transit records; its atomic engine will be fired when it passes the moons.
May 18: Sukarno is proclaimed President for Life of Indonesia.
May 19: The Ministry of War approves increases to the number of armoured reconaissance regiments and additional units of the Reconaissance Corps fielded by the British Army of the Rhine.
May 20: French double-murderer Jean Casson is executed by guillotine outside St-Pierre prison in Versailles.
May 21: The former RN aircraft carrier
Victorious is sold to Peru.
May 22: TASS reports that Soviet scientists have made unspecified giant advances in cybernetics.
May 23: A Nike Zeus missile successfully intercepts and destroys a US satellite.
May 24: Exercise
Midnight Sun comes to a successful conclusion, with Norwegian and US forces forces successfully defending their positions from Swedish, British and Canadian forces.
May 25: Publication of the Indian Ministry of Educations Ten Year Plan, calling for dramatic increases in school construction and literacy levels.
May 26: Construction of an experimental US fusion reactor begins at Los Alamos.
May 27: Vaughan Meader releases his second 'First Family' album, following on from the huge success of the first, which has topped 5 million sales.
May 28: Six bombs are set off around Algiers through the afternoon, killing 77.
May 29: USAF B-47s bomb suspected Viet Cong targets in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.
May 30: The French Defence Ministry issues a requirement for development of a land and sea based variable geometry strike fighter.
May 31: Imperial Police in Malaya stage a number of raids against suspected Communists, arresting 126 suspects.
JuneJune 1: The Soviet Union launches an experimental space rocket on a mission to the moons of Venus.
June 2: A fortunate Irishwoman discovers a leprechaun's pot of gold in County Cork.
June 3: Death of Pope John XXIII in the Vatican.
June 4: 12 notable clerics are arrested by Iranian police after criticising the Shah's policy of female suffrage.
June 5: The United States cricket team defeats Canada in the First Test in Philadelphia by 2 runs in one of the greatest contests between the two arch rivals.
June 6: NASA formally unveils its scheduled plan for the first phase of the Orion Program missions to the Jovian system, with Orion 1 to perform a limited expedition to the asteroid belt in 1964, followed by more expansive exploration by Orion 2 and 3 in 1965 and 1966.
June 7: Retirement of renowned British diplomat and adventurer, Sir Gerald Whinfrey.
June 8: US deployment of Thor medium range ballistic missiles in Britain reaches its agreed level of 240 rockets.
June 9: Beginning of the Great Motor Race between Calais and Constantinople.
June 10: President John F. Kennedy delivers his American University speech, "A Strategy of Peace", in Washington, D.C.
June 11: The first successful lung transplant is performed at the University of Mississippi.
June 12: Release of
Cleopatra, a lavish historical epic starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, in New York City.
June 13: Senator Joseph McCarthy gives a fiery speech claiming that history will prove him right on Communist infiltration of the United States.
June 14: The Royal Ordnance L24 QF 125mm Light Gun enters service with the British Army, initially with Royal Artillery field regiments attached to light infantry units.
June 15: China proposes steps for the normalisation of the Hong Kong border.
June 16: President Kennedy arrives in Jerusalem for a state visit to Israel.
June 17: Approval of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) seven bit code by the American Standard Association
June 18: The US Supreme Court begins to hear arguments on Krazgrim vs. Arkansas on the broader issue of orcish voting rights.
June 19: Opening of the Papal Conclave in the Vatican to select a new Pontiff.
June 20: Royal Swedish Air Force Colonel Stig Wennerström is arrested on suspicion of spying for the Soviet Union.
June 21: Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, is elected Pope, taking the name Paul VI.
June 22: The former RN aircraft carrier
Formidable is sold to Korea.
June 23: Stanley Moss wins the 1963 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
June 24: First demonstration of the Telcan television videotape recording device.
June 25: A headline story in the National Enquirer claims that the wave of UFOs spotted over the last 20 years are the forerunners of an alien invasion fleet from beyond the stars.
June 26: President Kennedy gives a speech in Berlin, praising the Berlin Wall as a bulwark in defence of democracy and hailing the city as being on the frontline of freedom, culminating in his statement
Ich bin ein Berliner.
June 27: Minnesota becomes the first state to pass legislation to require public buildings to be accessible to handicapped people.
June 28: A British Army study recommends that airborne divisions be supplied with armoured vehicles and airborne tanks.
June 29: Opening of the University of West Africa.
June 30: The C-141 Starlifter enters service with USAF Air Transport Command.
JulyJuly 1: Formal introduction of ZIP codes in the United States.
July 2: Soviet Premier Stalin proposes an international treaty prohibiting atmospheric atomic testing.
July 3: The 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg is celebrated with a re-enactment of Pickett's Charge.
July 4: Maiden flight of the Boeing 2707 supersonic airliner.
July 5: The US Senate records its shortest ever sitting time, holding a three second session in the early morning.
July 6: Soviet archaeologists claim to have discovered the lost grave of Genghis Khan near Krakow.
July 7: Over 15,000 French and South Vietnamese troops begin a series of offensive sweeps against areas of suspected Viet Cong operation.
July 8: Return of the successful US Mount Everest expedition to Washington D.C.
July 9: Protests against British colonial rule take place across Borneo; officials describe them as an Indonesian provocation.
July 10: South African police arrest 24 nationalist and communists leaders in a raid on a farm near Rivonia.
July 11: The Premier of Ecuador is ousted in a military coup.
July 12: Pauline Reade, aged 16, goes missing in Manchester, sparking the beginning of a major investigation.
July 13: Brigadier Sir Harry Flashman is promoted to command of the British garrison on the Falkland Islands after a somewhat controversial period as military attache to the British Embassy in Bangkok.
July 14: A new main battle tank and advanced air superiority jet fighter are unveiled at the Bastille Day parade in Paris.
July 15: The
New York Times reports that the first round of tests of a new cancer-fighting medication at John Hopkins University have been uniformly successful.
July 16: Communist guerrillas launch a wave of new attacks in Central Malaya.
July 17: US intelligence assets report an outbreak of zombie attacks in Southern Haiti
July 18: An attempted coup by Soviet sympathiser military officers in Syria is crushed by Royal Guards and Interior Ministry troops.
July 19: The former RN aircraft carrier
Indomitable is sold to Portugal.
July 20: A total solar eclipse darkens North America for 100 seconds.
July 21: Retirement of the last railway gun in British Army service.
July 22: Sonny Liston wins the World Heavyweight Title in a contentious fight with Henry Cooper at Madison Square Garden.
July 23: Opening of an international conference of a partial test atomic ban in Geneva.
July 24: The Royal Navy places 2 aircraft carriers, 20 cruisers, 36 destroyers, 104 frigates and 36 submarines on the disposal list in the most substantial winnowing of British naval power since 1947.
July 25: Strategic Air Command begins the regular deployment of B-52 squadrons to RAF airfields in England.
July 26: An earthquake in Skópia, Macedonia kills over 1800 people.
July 27: A nationalist coalition wins the majority of seats in the Egyptian general election, which proceeds mostly peacefully.
July 28: RAF and RNAS patrol planes report the appearance of a large island in the Porcupine Banks 200 miles west of Ireland and the massive expansion in size of the islet of Rockall.
July 29: The West Indies defeat England by 268 runs in the Fourth Test at Leeds, with Garfield Sobers scoring a century in each innings.
July 30: In what art lovers term a miracle, it is revealed that the Mona Lisa destroyed last December was a copy and that the original has survived in a secure storeroom. Allegations of conspiracy begin to abound.
July 31: The Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional stages an attack on a gun club in Uruguay.
AugustAugust 1: The United States begins revisions on the Single Integrated Operational Plan.
August 2: Beginning of the 11th Scout World Jamboree in Marathon, Greece.
August 3: President Kennedy is presented with a rubber swan by a committee of citizens from Marrowbone, Tennessee.
August 4: US Marines land in Haiti to support anti-zombie operations.
August 5: The United States, Britain, France and Soviet Union sign a memorandum agreeing to a moratorium on atmospheric nuclear tests for the next five years.
August 6: A substantive pay rise for every member of the US military is unanimously passed by the Senate.
August 7: Arrival of the NASA rocketship Rigel in Martian orbit after a flight of 81 days.
August 8: An American doctor charged with the murder of his wife proves that her death was the work of a mysterious one-armed man.
August 9: Hurricane Arlene passes over Bermuda, causing minor damage.
August 10: The Rivonia farm captives are charged with a range of offences, including treachery.
August 11: Portuguese Prime Minister Salazar declares that Angola and Mozambique are intrinsic parts of pluricontinental Portugal.
August 12: Two teams of surgeons at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles successfully separate two conjoined twins
August 13: Swedish Congo is formally proclaimed an independent state, named Orungu, at a ceremony in Freiholm.
August 14: A meeting of the Joint Allied Committee on the Imprisonment of War Criminals comes to an agreement on the possible early release of prisoners held in the underground facility on Kerguelen.
August 15: Publication of C.S. Lewis's
The Golden Unicorn, the latest novel in the Narnia series.
August 16: The United States conducts an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
August 17: Launch of a new large Soviet spaceship, the
Soyuz, as part of the Kosmos Programme.
August 18: Philips introduces a portable personal cassette player.
August 19: Activation of a further eight independent brigades of the United States Army is completed.
August 20: The Chilean cruiser
Capitán Prat runs aground near Valparaiso.
August 21: A disabled Aeroflot Tu-124 makes an emergency landing on the Neva River, allowing all 52 people on board to escape without injury.
August 22: President Kennedy issues a Presidential Memorandum establishing a National Communications System.
August 23: Norwegian Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen resigns after losing a vote of no confidence by two votes.
August 24: The USAF issues an official request for proposals for the CX superheavy jet transport, capable of carrying a maximum payload of 250 tons over intercontinental range.
August 25: A Greek iron ore freighter goes missing without trace in the Indian Ocean.
August 26: The Japanese Minister of Construction announces that an advanced scientific city will be built near Mount Tsukuba.
August 27: Miners trapped in a potash mine in Utah are rescued from an underground explosion by a caped hero.
August 28: Reverend Martin Luther King delivers a stirring speech at the Lincoln Memorial as part of a march on Washington urging full equality for American Negroes.
August 29: The IRA robs the Policlínico Bancario bank in Buenos Aires, netting over $250,000.
August 30: Canada announces that it will conduct a number of underground nuclear tests in the Aleutian Islands in 1964.
August 31: The Vought YA-7 Corsair is announced as the winner of the VAL Light Attack aircraft contest.
SeptemberSeptember 1: The B-58E enters service with Tactical Air Command.
September 2: An unknown man blows himself up inside Lenin's Tomb, damaging the embalmed body beyond repair and wrecking the interior of the mausoleum.
September 3: The U.S. federal minimum wage is increased to...
September 4: Arrest of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley on suspicion of abduction and murder by a special Manchester police squad acting in conjunction with Scotland Yard forensic sorcerers.
September 5: Public release of the Porsche 911 at the Frankfurt International Motor Show.
September 6: Arrival of advanced units of the 25th Infantry Division in South Vietnam.
September 7: Birth of Patrick Kennedy, son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; mother and child are reported to be well.
September 8: French agents of the Sûreté Nationale arrest several leaders of the Algerian nationalist movement.
September 9: NBC expands their evening news report from 15 to 30 minutes.
September 10: Fifteen Italian Mafia bosses are indicted for murder and various other offences.
September 11: Archaeologists at Angkor Wat discover a hitherto hidden chamber covered in astrological symbols and a single ancient crystal.
September 12: Topping out of the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona.
September 13: Soviet dramatist and KGB agent Yuri Krotkov defects in London.
September 14: The Tokyo Convention on crimes committed in aircraft and international airspace is signed in the Japanese capital.
September 15: Dinosaur hunters in the Congo report spotting a rare albino theropod.
September 16: Première of the science fiction television series The Outer Limits on the ABC network in the United States.
September 17: Shocked Navajo report the disappearance of Shiprock, New Mexico.
September 18: Rioters attack the British embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia.
September 19: Death of the noted political cartoonist Sir David Low.
September 20: The first successful pre-natal blood transfusion is carried out in Auckland, New Zealand.
September 21: Inspector Harry Callahan of the SFPD is decorated for rescuing a kidnapped child from a crazed knife-wielding criminal and gunning down the miscreant.
September 22: Korean troops arrive in South Vietnam for service as part of the Free World Military Advisory Forces.
September 23: The President of the Dominican Republic is overthrown in a military coup.
September 24: 18 people are killed in an explosion and subsequent fire at an Italian fireworks factory.
September 25: President Kennedy's cuts in income tax are passed by the US Senate.
September 26: A North Carolina man is arrested after trying to crash his truck through the gates of the White House.
September 27: General parliamentary elections are held in South Vietnam, amid widespread speculation on corruption.
September 28: The US Army issues a requirement for a light machine gun to complement the M16 battle rifle and M60 general purpose machine gun.
September 29: South Africa conducts an underground nuclear test in the Kalahari Desert.
September 30: Sealing of the Mongolian-Chinese border.
OctoberOctober 1: Soviet deployment of the SS-5 medium range ballistic missile reaches its peak level of 178 launchers.
October 2: A husband and wife become the first fatalities in a botulism outbreak in Michigan.
October 3: Hurricane Flora makes landfall on Haiti, inflicting widespread damage with winds topping 200mph
October 4: Eruption of Kilauea in Hawaii.
October 5: Geelong defeat Hawthorn 129-60 to win the 1963 VFL Grand Final in front of 123,209 spectators at the MCG.
October 6: The last commercial windjammer rounds Cape Horn en route to Falmouth with a cargo of South Australian grain.
October 7: Overthrow of the President of Honduras in a military coup. Over 120 people are killed in intense fighting.
October 8: Signing of the Military Charter of the Arab Union, combining the military forces of Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Arabia under the command a single High Military Council based in Baghdad.
October 9: The Vajont Dam in Northern Italy overflows after a rock slope failure. Waves over 100m high sweep through the area, killing 2043 people.
October 10: The first of over a million copies of the British government's civil defence pamphlet 'Advising the Householder on Protection against Nuclear Attack' is delivered.
October 11: Jesuit Walter Ciszek is released by the Soviet Union in a prisoner swap after being imprisoned since 1940.
October 12: The President's Commission on the Status of Women delivers its report to President Kennedy.
October 13: A Vatican ecumenical council agrees, after long and bitter debate, to allow the use of local languages rather than Latin for the delivery of sacraments, with the obvious exception of the rite of exorcism.
October 14: Introduction of the Learjet.
October 15: Beginning of the Aden Emergency, with attacks on several British positions in the hinterland.
October 16: A USAF B-58 breaks the speed record for the fastest Tokyo-London flight, completing the journey in 10 hours and 24 minutes.
October 17: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley and John Carew Eccles are announced as the winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine for "their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane."
October 18: The 1968 Summer Olympic Games are awarded to Buenos Aires.
October 19: Initiation of the Phoenix Program in South Vietnam.
October 20: The United States Air Force begins Operation
Big Lift, the aerial transport of the personnel and supplies of two entire armoured divisions to Europe in 24 hours.
October 21: Completion of the Bhakra Dam in northern India, becoming the highest gravity dam in the world.
October 22: Opening of the National Theatre of Great Britain's first performance, a production of Hamlet directed by Sir Laurence Olivier and starring Peter O'Toole.
October 23: The Polish Free Army receives their first Chieftain tanks.
October 24: England defeat the Rest of the World 2-1 in a friendly international football match at Imperial Stadium in front of a crowd of 145,268 people.
October 25: 43 miners are trapped in a flooded coal mine in Germany, sparking intense rescue efforts.
October 26: Premier Stalin proclaims that the Soviet Union will win the Space Race to the outer planets of the Solar System due to the inherent advantages of scientific socialism.
October 27: Successful test of the improved Polaris A-3 sea launched ballistic missile.
October 28: The US National Security Council decides against further reinforcements of ground troops to South Vietnam, but authorises the deployment of an additional 500 USAF combat aircraft to the region.
October 29: Hurricane Ginny is the first storm to be dispelled by advanced sorcery utilised by the US Department of Magic.
October 30: Incorporation of the Lamborghini automobile manufacturing company.
October 31: US railways record their highest monthly passenger figures since the Second World War.
NovemberNovember 1: Official dedication of the Arecibo Observatory in Porto Rico.
November 2: USAF F-8 Super Crusaders intercept two Soviet bombers over the La Pérouse Strait.
November 3: A 20 year old medical student is arrested in Boston for fraud after flying for several hundreds of thousands of miles on stolen airplane tickets.
November 4: George Formby appears at the Royal Variety Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre after recovering from recent heart trouble.
November 5: Laying down of a new Marine Royale super battleship at Toulon, the first such vessels built in France since before the Second World War
November 6: New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller announces that he will run for the Republican nomination for the 1964 Presidential Election.
November 7: The trapped miners in the Lengede mine are miraculously rescued through the use of an advanced drilling machine and specialised spells.
November 8: An attempted jewel robbery in Manhattan goes awry as the getaway driver is unable to operate the manual transmission on the stolen vehicle, abandoning it after one block along with the $3 million worth of jewels.
November 9: Over 450 coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Mitsui Mikawa mine in Omuta. Seven hours later, a triple rail crash caused by a freight train derailment takes 161 lives.
November 10: Retirement of the famed airship HMA
R101.
November 11: American adventurer and solo yachtsman William Willis arrives in Samoa after being presumed missing on a journey in his trimaran between Peru and Australia.
November 12: The King of Morocco appoints a Prime Minister and Cabinet after previously exercising all legislative and executive authority in his own right.
November 13: Torrential rain and flash flooding strikes Haiti and Cuba, complicating anti-zombie operations in the rugged mountain terrain of the former state.
November 14: A USAF rocket-assisted F-104 Starfighter reaches a new altitude record of 129,854 feet.
November 15: An explosion of an undersea volcano creates a new island near Iceland, dubbed 'Surtsey'.
November 16: American political science Professor Frederick C. Barghoorn was released by the Soviet Union after 16 days of imprisonment, having been arrested in Moscow on suspicion of espionage.
November 17: Sir Keith Holyoake's National Party is returned to power with an increased majority in the New Zealand general election.
November 18: A fire in an Atlantic City convalescent home kills 25 residents.
November 19: The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is approved by the Assembly of the League of Nations.
November 20: President Kennedy and the First Lady depart Washington D.C. on a long awaited tour of Texas.
November 21: The Liberal Democratic Party returns to power in the Japanese general election, increasing its majority under the leadership of Prime Minister Akira Tanaka.
November 22: Walt Disney decides upon Orlando, Florida as the location of his second major theme park, an Eastern Seaboard counterpart to Disneyland.
November 23: British intelligence assets in the Soviet Union report the secret testing of strange military robots resembling pepperpots.
November 24: A letter to
The Times complains about the increased presence of wombles on Wimbledon Common.
November 25: The top-secret Fawcett Report is received by the British Cabinet.
November 26: President Kennedy issues National Security Action Memorandum 269, which expounds on the goals of the United States in South East Asia, stating "It remains the central object of the United States in South Vietnam to assist the people and Government of that country to win their contest against the externally directed and supported Communist conspiracy."
November 27: Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
November 28: Canadian Prime Minister Sir William Richardson announces that he will not seek re-election after the completion of his current term of office, stating that he would retire by the end of 1965.
November 29: The Grumman A-6 Intruder enters service with the United States Air Force.
November 30: Sir Robert Menzies' Liberal-Country Coalition increases its majority over the Labour opposition by 11 seats in the Australian general election, comfortably being returned to government.
DecemberDecember 1: Announcement of a 'Big 3' superpower summit meeting in Geneva in March 1964, orchestrated in no small part by private diplomacy conducted by Sir Winston Churchill.
December 2: Death of Maharajah Kishan of Haserah, noted Anglophile and railway enthusiast.
December 3: Italy introduces new, reduced sized lira notes in a major currency reform.
December 4: Completion of the expansion and modernisation of H.M. Dockyard Gibraltar.
December 5: Assassination of the head of the Laotian
Deuxiemme Bureauoutside Vientiane
December 6: Experimental testing of the US Army Military Combat Ration, begins at Fort Bragg.
December 7: First use of instant reply video in a live television sporting broadcast on CBS.
December 8: Frank Sinatra Jr. is kidnapped by unknown assailants.
December 9: Two people are killed in a grenade attack on the High Commissioner of Aden.
December 10: Test pilot Chuck Yeager avoids death after ejecting and parachuting to safety when his NF-104 rocket-assisted plane loses power at 120,000ft.
December 11: Israel announces its National Water Carrier Project for the diversion of waters from the Jordan valley, raising regional tensions with Jordan and Syria.
December 12: Signing of the official protocol establishing the Central American Defense Community, a security pact between Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Yucatan and Los Altos.
December 13: The first contingent of 24,000 British reinforcements land in Aden in response to the deepening emergency.
December 14: A bursting dam in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles threatens to destroy dozens of homes before the intervention of a costumed hero.
December 15: Polish Archbishop Karol Wojtyla is appointed as a Cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
December 16: A referendum in Spanish Congo on the question of increased autonomy and eventual independence passes, with 62% in favour of the proposed timetable for self-rule.
December 17: President Kennedy signs the Higher Education Facilities Act, authorising the expenditure of over $2.5 billion on loans and funding to colleges and universities and the Clean Air Act, an expansive environmental protection law.
December 18: Resignation of the Prime Minister of Finland and his entire cabinet over disputes regarding tax increases.
December 19: France's second television network, RTF Télévision 2, begins broadcasting
December 20: Opening of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, with 43 former SS personnel accused of involvement with a range of horrific crimes at the Nazi death camp.
December 21: A search begins for the missing Spanish freighter
Castillo Montjuich, which last made radio contact seven days earlier, reporting unnaturally strong winds approximately 400nm northwest of the Azure Islands.
December 22: The Washington Post carries an editorial by former President Harry Truman calling for the CIA's role to be limited to intelligence gathering.
December 23: Ernst Thalmann is returned to power in the German Democratic Republic general election, winning over 103% of the vote.
December 24: Release of Walt Disney's latest animated picture,
The Sword in the Stone.
December 25: Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas message to the Empire and Commonwealth focuses upon moves towards international peace and the campaign to free the world from hunger.
December 26: Three British dragons reach full adult maturity.
December 27: American strategic reconnaissance assets identify a massive underground rocket base and spaceport under construction in Western China, raising questions as to the status of Imperial China's space plans.
December 28: The world's first titanium hull submarine is laid down in the Soviet Union.
December 29: Heavy fighting takes place in Borneo along the Indonesian border.
December 30: A massive traffic jam in Boston causes complete gridlock for over 10 hours.
December 31: The Leaning Tower of Pisa is accidentally straightened by a drunken wizard.
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