October 1963

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The following events occurred in October 1963:

October 1, 1963 (Tuesday)

• Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican Constitution is established
• In the U.S., the President's Commission on the Status of Women issues its final reports to President John F. Kennedy.
• The Belgian tanker Esso Brussels collides with another ship in the Mediterranean Sea.^[1]
• US television's ABC News drops its dependence on outside sources of news film and begins to rely on its own camera crews.

October 2, 1963 (Wednesday)

• Los Angeles Dodgers left-handed pitcher Sandy Koufax sets a World Series record by striking out 15 New York Yankees in a 5-2 victory in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium. The Dodgers sweep the series in four straight, with Koufax defeating the Yankees 2-1 in Game 4 at Dodger Stadium.
• British coaster Humbergate capsizes and sinks off West Pentire, Cornwall. All five crew survive.^[2]

October 3, 1963 (Thursday)

• President Ahmed Ben Bella assumes control of Algeria, having discontinued the activities of the national Assembly.

October 4, 1963 (Friday)

• Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba killing nearly 7,000 people.

October 5, 1963 (Saturday)

• Kīlauea, a volcano on Hawaii, erupts on its upper east rift zone. The eruption is observed and reported on by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.^[3]
• The 67th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League is held at Melbourne, Australia, and is won by Geelong Football Club.^[4]
• Born: Nick Robinson, British TV journalist, in Macclesfield

October 6, 1963 (Sunday)

• The Armstrong 500 touring car race is held at the Mount Panorama Circuit, near Bathurst, Australia, and is won by Bob Jane and Harry Firth.
• Born: Elisabeth Shue, American actress, in Wilmington, Delaware; Vasile Tarlev, Moldovan politician (prime minister 2001-2008), in Başcalia

October 7, 1963 (Monday)

• The Learjet 23 prototype, the very first Learjet built, makes its first flight.
• Died: Ivan Ivanovich Schmalhausen, 79, Russian zoologist and evolutionist

October 8, 1963 (Tuesday)

• Sam Cooke and his band are arrested after trying to register at a "whites only" motel in Louisiana. In the months following, he records the song "A Change Is Gonna Come".
• The Greek ship SS Manticos is beached at 11°14′N 16°32′W / 11.233°N 16.533°W / 11.233; -16.533 after developing a leak.

October 9, 1963 (Wednesday)

• In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.^[5]

October 10, 1963 (Thursday)

• The nuclear test ban treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect.
• British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announces his resignation on the grounds of ill health.
• The second James Bond film, From Russia with Love, opens in the UK.
• Died: Roy Cazaly, 70, Australian rules footballer

October 11, 1963 (Friday)

• The United Nations General Assembly adopts resolution (XVIII), requesting the South African government to call off the Rivonia Trial and release all political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela.^[6]
• Born: Prince Feisal bin Al Hussein of Jordan, in Amman, son of King Hussein of Jordan and Princess Muna al-Hussein
• Died: Jean Cocteau, 74, French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker; Édith Piaf, 47, French popular singer and cultural icon (liver cancer)

October 12, 1963 (Saturday)

• Khwaja Shams-ud-Din becomes Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Died: Mark Robert Drouin, 59, Canadian politician, Speaker of the Canadian Senate 1957-1962

October 13, 1963 (Sunday)

• Samuel Beckett's radio play Cascando is broadcast for the first time, on France Culture, starring Roger Blin.

October 14, 1963 (Monday)

• A revolution starts in Radfan, South Yemen, against British colonial rule.
• Born: Zsolt Németh, Hungarian politician, in Budapest.

October 15, 1963 (Tuesday)

• The Daily Mirror uses the term "Beatlemania" in a news story about the group's concert the previous day in Cheltenham.
• Ludwig Erhard takes over chancellorship from Konrad Adenauer^[7]

October 16, 1963 (Wednesday)

• In the US, the Nickel Plate Road, the Wabash Railroad and several smaller carriers are merged with the profitable Norfolk & Western Railway (N&W).

October 17, 1963 (Thursday)

• In Stockholm, two Britons (Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley) and an Australian (John Carew Eccles) are announced as winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane".^[8]

October 18, 1963 (Friday)

• The International Olympic Committee awards the 1968 Olympic Games to Mexico City.
• Died: Constance Worth, 51, Australian actress

October 19, 1963 (Saturday)

• Harold Macmillan leaves office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to be replaced by Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Macmillan had resigned the previous day on health grounds, having been incorrectly diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer. He later revealed that he had been hounded from office by a backbench minority, "a band that in the end does not amount to more than 15 or 20 at the most".^[9]

October 20, 1963 (Sunday)

• In the East German general election, 434 deputies are elected to the Volkskammer, all representing the same party.
• Died: Soren Sorensen Adams, 84, Danish inventor

October 21, 1963 (Monday)

• The Mauritian general election is won by the Labour Party.
• Died: Józef Franczak, 45, Polish resistance fighter, last of the "cursed soldiers" (killed during the ZOMO siege of a barn in Majdan Kozic Górnych)

October 22, 1963 (Tuesday)

• During its flight development program, the BAC One-Eleven airliner prototype, G-ASHG, crashes, killing the entire crew of seven, including test pilot M. J. Lithgow. The investigation of the accident reveals that it resulted from a deep stall caused by the aircraft assuming an unexpected and dangerously high angle of attack, and remedial measures will be of great use worldwide in designing aircraft that have a T-tail and rear-mounted engine configuration.^[10]
• An estimated 225,000 students in Chicago schools boycott classes in protest at their segregation policy.^[11]
• SS Manticos, beached with a leak on 8 October, sinks after the pumping operation fails.

October 23, 1963 (Wednesday)

• Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home, disclaims his peerage in order to take office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• The Spanish ship SS Juan Ferrer capsizes and sinks near Boscawen Point, United Kingdom,^[12] with the loss of eleven of the fifteen crew.^[13]

October 24, 1963 (Thursday)

• The final Topaze VE111C rocket is launched from Hammaguir, Algeria, by the French aerospace research centre.
• The conclusions of the Robbins Report on higher education are accepted by the UK government. The report recommends immediate expansion of universities, and that all Colleges of Advanced Technology should be given university status.
• Born: Giselle Laronde, Trinidadian beauty queen and Miss World 1986, in Port of Spain

October 25, 1963 (Friday)

• Died: Björn Þórðarson, 84, Icelandic politician (prime minister 1942-44)Roger Désormière, 65, French conductor; Karl von Terzaghi, 80, Austrian civil engineer and geologist, "the father of soil mechanics"

October 26, 1963 (Saturday)

• The 1963 Scottish League Cup Final is played at Hampden Park, Glasgow; Rangers F.C. defeat Greenock Morton F.C. 5-0, with Jim Forrest scoring four of the goals.

October 27, 1963 (Sunday)

• The Mexican Grand Prix is won by Jim Clark.
• Regional elections are held in the Aosta Valley, a semi-autonomous region of Italy.

October 28, 1963 (Monday)

• Demolition of the 1910 Pennsylvania Station begins in New York City. Demolition continues until 1966.

October 29, 1963 (Tuesday)

• Hurricane Ginny reaches peak winds of 110 mph (175 km/h), subsequently becoming extratropical before making landfall on southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada.
• US President John F. Kennedy makes a statement following the approval of the Civil Rights Bill by the House Committee on the Judiciary.^[14]
• Died: Adolphe Menjou, 73, American actor

October 30, 1963 (Wednesday)

• Car manufacturing firm Lamborghini is founded.

October 31, 1963 (Thursday)

• 74 people die in a gas explosion during a Holiday on Ice show at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum in Indianapolis, US.
• Detroit's new radio station, formerly WKMH, begins broadcasting as WKNR-AM, "Keener 13".

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