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1963 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2030. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1963 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1963
- January 25, 1963 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 8, 1963 – The first full color television program in the world, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican engineer Guillermo González Camarena.
- June 26, 1963 – Levi Eshkol becomes the Israeli Prime Minister.
- July 1, 1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
- July 26, 1963 – An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
- August 21, 1963 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
- September 16, 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.
- October 4, 1963 – Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
- November 1, 1963 – The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
- November 27, 1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.
Who Were Born On 1963?
- January 4, 1963 – Dave Foley, Canadian comedian, actor, director, and producer
- March 22, 1963 – Francesco Quinn, Italian-American actor (d. 2011)
- April 2, 1963 – Sia Barbi, American model, author, and activist
- May 25, 1963 – George Hickenlooper, American director and producer (d. 2010)
- June 3, 1963 – Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician, 8th Minister-President of the Walloon Region
- June 25, 1963 – Jackie Swanson, American actress
- August 1, 1963 – Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut and engineer
- August 19, 1963 – John Stamos, American actor, singer, and producer
- November 7, 1963 – Sam Graves, American farmer and politician