The Ba’ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d’état. The **Ba’ath Party in Syria**, formally known as the **Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party**,…
Tag: 1963
11 February 1963
The Beatles recorded their first album Please Please Me. Please Please Me is the debut studio album by The Beatles, released in March 1963, and…
30 August 1963
The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation. The Moscow–Washington hotline, often nicknamed the “red telephone,” was…
19 May 1963
The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail. On May 19, 1963, The New York Post Sunday Magazine…
12 February 1963
Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri. The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is an iconic 630-foot (192-meter) stainless steel monument…
25 September 1963
Lord Denning releases the UK government’s official report on the Profumo affair. The Profumo affair was a British political scandal that unfolded in the early…
30 August 1963
The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation. The Moscow-Washington hotline, also known as the “Red Telephone”…
4 April 1963
Bye Bye Birdie, a musical romantic comedy film directed by George Sidney, was released. Bye Bye Birdie is a popular musical comedy that premiered on…
19 February 1963
The publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women’s organizations and consciousness raising groups spread. Betty…
5 June 1963
The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the “Profumo affair”.