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List of events
Events from the year 1963 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal Government
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
Governors
Governor of Alabama : John M. Patterson (Democratic ) (until January 14), George Wallace (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Alaska : William A. Egan (Democratic )
Governor of Arizona : Paul Fannin (Republican )
Governor of Arkansas : Orval Faubus (Democratic )
Governor of California : Pat Brown (Democratic )
Governor of Colorado : Stephen L. R. McNichols (Democratic ) (until January 8), John Arthur Love (Republican ) (starting January 8)
Governor of Connecticut : John N. Dempsey (Democratic )
Governor of Delaware : Elbert N. Carvel (Democratic )
Governor of Florida : C. Farris Bryant (Democratic )
Governor of Georgia : Ernest Vandiver (Democratic ) (until January 15), Carl E. Sanders (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Hawaii : John A. Burns (Democratic )
Governor of Idaho : Robert E. Smylie (Republican )
Governor of Illinois : Otto Kerner Jr. (Democratic )
Governor of Indiana : Matthew E. Welsh (Democratic )
Governor of Iowa : Norman A. Erbe (Republican ) (until January 17), Harold E. Hughes (Democratic ) (starting January 17)
Governor of Kansas : John Anderson Jr. (Republican )
Governor of Kentucky : Bert T. Combs (Democratic ) (until December 10), Edward T. Breathitt (Democratic ) (starting December 10)
Governor of Louisiana : Jimmie H. Davis (Democratic )
Governor of Maine : John H. Reed (Republican )
Governor of Maryland : J. Millard Tawes (Democratic )
Governor of Massachusetts : John A. Volpe (Republican ) (until January 3), Endicott Peabody (Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of Michigan : John Swainson (Democratic ) (until January 1), George W. Romney (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of Minnesota : Elmer L. Andersen (Republican ) (until March 25), Karl F. Rolvaag (Democratic ) (starting March 25)
Governor of Mississippi : Ross R. Barnett (Democratic )
Governor of Missouri : John M. Dalton (Democratic )
Governor of Montana : Tim M. Babcock (Republican )
Governor of Nebraska : Frank B. Morrison (Democratic )
Governor of Nevada : Grant Sawyer (Democratic )
Governor of New Hampshire : Wesley Powell (Republican ) (until January 3), John W. King (Democratic ) (starting January 3)
Governor of New Jersey : Richard J. Hughes (Democratic )
Governor of New Mexico : Tom Bolack (Republican ) (until January 1), Jack M. Campbell (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Governor of New York : Nelson Rockefeller (Republican )
Governor of North Carolina : Terry Sanford (Democratic )
Governor of North Dakota : William L. Guy (Democratic )
Governor of Ohio : Michael DiSalle (Democratic ) (until January 14), Jim Rhodes (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Governor of Oklahoma :
Governor of Oregon : Mark Hatfield (Republican )
Governor of Pennsylvania : David L. Lawrence (Democratic ) (until January 15), William Scranton (Republican ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Rhode Island : John A. Notte Jr. (Democratic ) (until January 1), John Chafee (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Governor of South Carolina : Ernest Hollings (Democratic ) (until January 15), Donald S. Russell (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of South Dakota : Archie M. Gubbrud (Republican )
Governor of Tennessee : Buford Ellington (Democratic ) (until January 15), Frank G. Clement (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Texas : Price Daniel (Democratic ) (until January 15), John Connally (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Governor of Utah : George Dewey Clyde (Republican )
Governor of Vermont : F. Ray Keyser Jr. (Republican ) (until January 10), Philip H. Hoff (Democratic ) (starting January 10)
Governor of Virginia : Albertis S. Harrison Jr. (Democratic )
Governor of Washington : Albert D. Rosellini (Democratic )
Governor of West Virginia : William Wallace Barron (Democratic )
Governor of Wisconsin : Gaylord A. Nelson (Democratic ) (until January 7), John W. Reynolds Jr. (Democratic ) (starting January 7)
Governor of Wyoming : Jack R. Gage (Democratic ) (until January 7), Clifford P. Hansen (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Albert B. Boutwell (Democratic ) (until January 14), James B. Allen (Democratic ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Alaska : Hugh Wade (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : Nathan Green Gordon (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of California : Glenn Malcolm Anderson (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Robert Lee Knous (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Anthony J. Armentano (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Samuel J. Tedesco (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Eugene Lammot (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : Garland T. Byrd (Democratic ) (until January 15), Peter Zack Geer (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii : William S. Richardson (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : W. E. Drevlow (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : Samuel H. Shapiro (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : Richard O. Ristine (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : W. L. Mooty (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Harold H. Chase (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Wilson W. Wyatt (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Harry Lee Waterfield (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : C. C. Aycock (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Edward F. McLaughlin Jr. (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Francis X. Bellotti (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : T. John Lesinski (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Karl Rolvaag (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Alexander M. Keith (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Paul B. Johnson Jr. (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Hilary A. Bush (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Montana : David F. James (political party unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : Dwight W. Burney (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Maude Frazier (Democratic ) (until January 1), Paul Laxalt (Republican ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : vacant (until January 1), Mack Easley (Democratic ) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of New York : Malcolm Wilson (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : vacant
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Orville W. Hagen (Republican ) (until month and day unknown), Frank A. Wenstrom (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : John W. Donahey (Democratic ) (until January 14), John William Brown (Republican ) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : George Nigh (Democratic ) (until January 6), Leo Winters (Democratic ) (starting January 6)
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : John Morgan Davis (Democratic ) (until January 15), Raymond P. Shafer (Republican ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Edward P. Gallogly (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Burnet R. Maybank Jr. (Democratic ) (until January 15), Robert Evander McNair (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : vacant (until month and day unknown), Nils Boe (Republican ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : vacant (until month and day unknown), James L. Bomar Jr. (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Texas : vacant (until January 15), Preston Smith (Democratic ) (starting January 15)
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Ralph A. Foote (Republican )
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Mills E. Godwin Jr. (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Washington : John Cherberg (Democratic )
Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Warren P. Knowles (Republican ) (until January 7), Jack B. Olson (Republican ) (starting January 7)
Events
January
February
March
April
May
May 1 – The Coca-Cola Company debuts its first diet drink, TaB cola.
May 2 – Thousands of African Americans , many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama . Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor later unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators.
May 8 – Dr. No , the first James Bond film, is shown in U.S. theaters.
May 15 – Mercury program : NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury 9 , the last mission (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the program is complete).
May 27 – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan , singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's second studio album , and most influential, is released by Columbia Records .
June
July
August
August 28: "I Have a Dream " (Martin Luther King Jr. )
September
October
November
November 22: President Kennedy assassinated
Vice President Johnson becomes the 36th U.S. President upon Kennedy's death
November 24: President Kennedy lying in state at the Capitol rotunda
November 24
Lee Harvey Oswald , assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas on live national television . Later that night, a hastily arranged program, A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts , featuring actors, opera singers, and noted writers, all performing dramatic readings and/or music, is telecast on ABC-TV .
Vietnam War : President Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.
November 25 – President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery . Schools around the nation do not have class on that day, and millions around the world watch the funeral on live television.
November 29 – President Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January 7 – Rand Paul , U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 2011
January 9 – Eric Erlandson , guitarist, songwriter, and producer
January 10 – Mark Pryor , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2014
January 18 – Martin O'Malley , 61st Governor of Maryland and 47th Mayor of Baltimore
January 31 – John Dye , actor (d. 2011 )
February 17
March 4 – Jason Newsted , Metallica bassist from 1986 to 2001
March 12 – Christine Falling , serial killer of six children
March 27 – Quentin Tarantino , filmmaker, screenwriter and actor
April 6 – Derrick May , electronic musician
June 9 – Johnny Depp , actor, producer and musician
June 20
July 7
July 18 – Mike Greenwell , baseball player and race car driver
July 28 – Michael Ruhlman , author
August 3 – James Hetfield , Metallica vocalist and backing guitarist
August 6 – Gwendolyn Graham , serial killer
August 9 – Whitney Houston , African American R&B vocalist, wife of Bobby Brown (d. 2012 )[3]
August 27 – Bobby Griffith , gay suicide victim (d. 1983 )
September 9 – Chris Coons , U.S. Senator from Delaware from 2010
September 10 – Randy Johnson , baseball player
October 1 – Mark McGwire , baseball player
November 1 – Josh Wicks , soccer player
December 8 – Wendell Pierce , African American actor
December 12 – Liz Claman , journalist
December 18 – Brad Pitt , film actor and producer
Deaths
January 1 – Robert S. Kerr , businessman and politician (b. 1896 )
January 2
January 5 – Rogers Hornsby , baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals ) (b. 1896 )
January 6
January 8
January 9 – Enea Bossi Sr. , aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer (b. 1888 in Italy)
January 29 – Robert Frost , poet (b. 1874 )
March 4 – William Carlos Williams , poet (b. 1883 )
March 5 – plane crash
April 3 – Alma Richards , high jumper (b. 1890 )
May 2 – Van Wyck Brooks , literary critic and writer (b. 1886 )
May 6 – Monty Woolley , character actor (b. 1888 )
May 11 – Herbert Spencer Gasser , physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1888 )
May 18 – Ernie Davis , American football player, first African American to win the Heisman Trophy (b. 1939 )
May 19 – Walter Russell , polymath (b. 1871 )
May 24 – Elmore James , African American blues guitarist (b. 1918 )
June 7 – ZaSu Pitts , film actress (b. 1894 )
June 10 – Anita King , actress and race-car driver (b. 1884 )
June 12 – Medgar Evers , field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , assassinated in Mississippi due to civil rights activity (b. 1925 )
July 2 – Alicia Patterson , newspaper editor (b. 1906 )
July 18 – Jack Solomon , restaurateur (b. 1896 )
August 1 – Theodore Roethke , poet (b. 1908 )
August 2 – Oliver La Farge , fiction writer and anthropologist (b. 1901 )
August 4 – Tom Keene , Western film actor (b. 1896 )
August 9 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy , son of President and Mrs. Kennedy (b. August 7)
August 10 – Estes Kefauver , politician (b. 1903 )
August 11 – Clem Bevans , character actor (b. 1879 )
August 14 – Clifford Odets , playwright (b. 1906 )
August 27 – W. E. B. Du Bois , leading African American sociologist, historian and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (b. 1868 )
September 11 – Claude Fuess , 10th Headmaster of Phillips Academy , Andover, Massachusetts (b. 1885 )
October 4
October 20 – Everett Warner , impressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1877 )
October 24 – Douglas Croft , actor (b. 1926 )
November 22
November 24 – Lee Harvey Oswald , sniper, assassinated John F. Kennedy (b. 1939 )
December 14 – Dinah Washington , African American blues singer (b. 1924 )
December 26 – Gorgeous George , professional wrestler (b. 1915 )
December 28
See also
References
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1963 in North America
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories