The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the “Profumo affair”.
Tag: 1963
24 November 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
30 August 1963
The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
28 August 1963
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
21 June 1963
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI’]
21 March 1963
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Federal_Penitentiary’]
21 December 1963
“Bloody Christmas” begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000–30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Christmas_(1963)’]
23 November 1963
The Beatles release With the Beatles. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_the_Beatles’]