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1963 Calendar

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•  January 8, 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
•  January 25, 1963 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  April 16, 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
•  June 12, 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
•  July 1, 1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
•  September 7, 1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
•  October 10, 1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
•  October 22, 1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
•  November 25, 1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
•  December 22, 1963 – The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 mi north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.

•  February 22, 1963 – Devon Malcolm, English Cricketer
•  March 20, 1963 – Kathy Ireland, American model and actress
•  April 27, 1963 – Cali Timmins, Canadian actress
•  May 12, 1963 – Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress
•  June 25, 1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
•  July 28, 1963 – Beverley Craven, British singer
•  September 8, 1963 – Brad Silberling, American television and film director
•  October 4, 1963 – Koji Ishikawa, Japanese children’s author
•  December 5, 1963 – Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards, English ski jumper
•  December 22, 1963 – Luna H. Mitani, Japanese American surrealism painter