September 1963

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The following events occurred in September, 1963.

September 1, 1963 (Sunday)

• The Austrian Grand Prix is held at Zeltweg Airfield and is won by Jack Brabham.
• At the annual meeting of the Quebec wing of the Social Credit Party of Canada in Granby, Quebec, delegates vote to form a new party. However, the Ralliement créditiste du Québec does not come into being until 1970.
• Kilkenny GAA defeat Waterford GAA in the 1963 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final at Croke Park, Dublin.

September 2, 1963 (Monday)

• CBS Evening News becomes American network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
• Born: Robbie Buhl, American Indy Racing League competitor and team-owner, in Detroit

September 3, 1963 (Tuesday)

• Shortly after takeoff from Zürich Airport, Swissair Flight 306, a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III, catches fire. The plane crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board. Among the dead are 43 people – one-fifth of the population – from the village of Humlikon, Switzerland, travelling together to visit a farm test site at Geneva.
• Jin Yong's wuxia novel 天龙八部 (小说 begins its serialisation in the newspapers Ming Pao in Hong Kong and Nanyang Siang Pau in Singapore.
• Died: Louis MacNeice, 55, Irish poet and dramatist, of pneumonia developed from bronchitis contracted while caving on the Yorkshire moors.

September 4, 1963 (Wednesday)

• Sennin Buraku becomes the first late night anime broadcast on Japanese television.
• Died: Robert Schuman, 77, Luxembourg-born politician, twice Prime Minister of France

September 5, 1963 (Thursday)

• British prostitute Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury.

September 6, 1963 (Friday)

• The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded.
• The Krulak Mendenhall mission is launched by the United States National Security Council.

September 7, 1963 (Saturday)

• The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio, with 17 charter members.

September 8, 1963 (Sunday)

• Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire, relinquishes his additional post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing it with the ministries of Defense, the Interior, and Agriculture.

September 9, 1963 (Monday)

• The Fourth Session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is held at United Nations Headquarters, New York.<ref<UN website</ref>

September 10, 1963 (Tuesday)

• Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is indicted for murder (he is not captured until 43 years later, on April 11, 2006).

September 11, 1963 (Wednesday)

• Died: Suzanne Duchamp, 73, French Dadaist painter and sister of Marcel Duchamp

September 12, 1963 (Thursday)

• Died: Modest Altschuler, 90, Belarussian cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer

September 13, 1963 (Friday)

• Russian dramatist and KGB agent Yuri Krotkov defects to the west while in London.
• Born: Robin Smith, England cricketer, in Durban, South Africa

September 14, 1963 (Saturday)

• The first issue of The Hornet is published by D. C. Thomson & Co.

September 15, 1963 (Sunday)

• American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 people and injures 22.

September 16, 1963 (Monday)

• Malaysia is formed through the merging of the Federation of Malaya and the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak.
• In Fort-Lamy, Chad, demonstrations are quelled with 300 dead.
• Hurricane Cindy forms 200 miles (322 km) east-northeast of Brownsville, Texas, USA.

September 17, 1963 (Tuesday)

• In Iran's Parliamentary elections, the New Iran Party wins 140 of the 200 seats.

September 18, 1963 (Wednesday)

• Rioters burn down the British Embassy in Jakarta, in protest at the formation of Malaysia.

September 19, 1963 (Thursday)

• Balwantrai Mehta succeeds Jivraj Narayan Mehta as Chief Minister of Gujarat.
• Born: Jarvis Cocker, English musician, in Sheffield
• Died: Agnès Humbert, 68, French art historian, ethnographer and Resistance member; David Low, 72, New Zealand political cartoonist

September 20, 1963 (Friday)

• President John F. Kennedy proposes a joint moon mission between the USA and the Soviet Union.

September 21, 1963 (Saturday)

• The Place des Arts opens in Montreal, Canada.

September 22, 1963 (Sunday)

• Born: Armando Castagna, Italian speedway rider, in Arzignano
• Died: Arthur Higgins, 71, Australian cinematographer

September 23, 1963 (Monday)

• King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals is established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals.

September 24, 1963 (Tuesday)

• The U.S. Senate ratifies the nuclear test ban treaty.

September 25, 1963 (Wednesday)

• The Denning Report on the Profumo affair is published in Great Britain.
• Ontario general election, 1963: John Robarts's Ontario Progressive Conservative Party wins a sixth consecutive majority.
• In Norway, Gerhardsen's Fourth Cabinet is appointed, with Einar Gerhardsen taking over as prime minister from John Lyng.

September 26, 1963 (Thursday)

• T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962, selected by the author, are published on his 75th birthday.
• After one day on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list Carl Close is arrested in Anderson, South Carolina by local authorities after robbing a bank.
• Baseball player Pumpsie Green plays his last game for the New York Mets.
• Born: Vladimír Chovan, Slovak politician; Joe Nemechek, American NASCAR driver and owner, in Lakeland, Florida

September 27, 1963 (Friday)

• Parliamentary elections are held in South Vietnam.
• The Scout X-2B rocket is launched from Point Arguello, carrying weather satellites, but fails to achieve orbit.
• Born: Caren Metschuck, German swimmer, in Greifswald

September 28, 1963 (Saturday)

• President John F. Kennedy makes his last official visit to California, to dedicate the Whiskeytown Dam.
• Born: Wei Wei, Mongolian pop singer, in Hohhot

September 29, 1963 (Sunday)

• The second period of the Second Vatican Council in Rome opens.
• The University of East Anglia is established in Norwich, UK.
• The Judy Garland Show begins its run on CBS. Sitcom My Favorite Martian is broadcast for the first time on the same channel on the same night.
• Stylianos Mavromichalis replaces Panagiotis Pipinelis as Prime Minister of Greece.

September 30, 1963 (Monday)

• BBC Television begins using a globe as its symbol. It would continue to be used in varying forms until 2002.