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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

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 27, 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
• May 8, 1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
• May 25, 1963 – In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
• June 1, 1963 – Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day).
• June 11, 1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
• July 1, 1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
• September 28, 1963 – Whaam!, now considered Roy Lichtenstein’s most important work, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery that lasted until at October 24.
• November 29, 1963 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
• December 21, 1963 – The episode of intercommunal violence called “Bloody Christmas” begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000-30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages.

Who Were Born On 1963?

• January 1, 1963 – Lina Kačiušytė, Lithuanian swimmer
• January 18, 1963 – Yury Zakharevich, Russian weightlifter
• January 20, 1963 – James Denton, American actor
• February 8, 1963 – Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer and politician
• February 20, 1963 – Charles Barkley, American basketball player and sportscaster
• February 24, 1963 – Mike Vernon, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 21, 1963 – Kevin Shields, American-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (My Bloody Valentine, The Complex, and Primal Scream)
• August 26, 1963 – Patrice Oppliger, American author, critic, and academic
• October 12, 1963 – Alan McDonald, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• December 20, 1963 – Joel Gretsch, American actor