September 1963

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September 15, 1963: Nation outraged by killing of four children at Birmingham, Alabama church
September 25, 1963: British Prime Minister Macmillan cleared of wrongdoing in "Profumo Affair"
September 16, 1963: Malaya merges with Singapore, Sabah and North Borneo...
... to create Malaysia

The following events occurred in September 1963:

September 1, 1963 (Sunday)

September 2, 1963 (Monday)

  • At 6:30 pm New York time, Walter Cronkite introduced the CBS Evening News with the statement, "Good evening from our CBS newsroom in New York, on this, the first broadcast of network television's first half-hour news program." The first show included a prerecorded segment of Cronkite's interview with U.S. President Kennedy. Previously, the three networks ran their daily national news for fifteen minutes.[4] NBC would inaugurate its half hour news program a week later, although ABC would not follow suit until 1967.[5]
  • Born: Robbie Buhl, American Indy Racing League competitor and team-owner, in Detroit
  • Died: Fazlollah Zahedi, 70, former Prime Minister of Iran (1953–1955)

September 3, 1963 (Tuesday)

September 4, 1963 (Wednesday)

The crash site of Swissair 306
  • All 80 people aboard Swissair Flight 306, a jet airliner on its way to Rome, were killed when the aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Zurich. The plane, a Sud Aviation Caravelle, caught fire and came down near the town of Dürrenäsch. Most of the 44 passengers were from the tiny village of Humlikon, including the town's mayor and its entire city council, all of whom had planned to disembark at Geneva for a visit to an agricultural experiment station.[9]
  • For the first time ever, black students registered at white schools in the segregated state of Alabama;[10] in some places, they faced state troopers deployed by Governor George Wallace to prevent integration.[11][12] That night, the bombing of a black household in Birmingham triggered a riot, and a black 20-year-old was shot to death by police.[13]
  • Sennin Buraku became the first late night anime to be broadcast on Japanese television.
  • Died: Robert Schuman, 77, Luxembourg-born French politician who served twice as Prime Minister of France in 1947 and 1948

September 5, 1963 (Thursday)

September 6, 1963 (Friday)

September 7, 1963 (Saturday)

September 8, 1963 (Sunday)

September 9, 1963 (Monday)

September 10, 1963 (Tuesday)

  • For the first time in the history of Major League Baseball, three brothers appeared for the same team in a game. Felipe Alou, Jesús Alou and Matty Alou took the outfield (at right, center and left field, respectively) for the San Francisco Giants against the New York Mets. In the 8th inning, Jesús, Matty and Felipe came up to bat in consecutive order, and were all struck out by Mets pitcher Carl Willey; the Mets won 4-2.[21]
  • Italian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was indicted for murder. Eight days later, he would become a fugitive,[22] and would not be captured until 43 years later, on April 11, 2006.[23]
  • U.S. President Kennedy issued an executive order that exempted married American men from being drafted.[24]

September 11, 1963 (Wednesday)

  • A chartered Vickers 610 Viking airplane, flying from London to Perpignan, France, crashed into the side of the Roc de la Roquette, a mountain in the Pyrenees Range, killing all 40 people on board. All 36 passengers were British tourists[25] Earlier in the day, another Vickers airplane, and Indian Airlines Viscount turboprop, crashed while en route from Nagpur to New Delhi, killing all 18 people on board.[26]
  • The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a state law, requiring segregated seating in publicly owned ballparks, was unconstitutional.[27]
  • Died: Suzanne Duchamp, 73, French Dadaist painter and sister of Marcel Duchamp

September 12, 1963 (Thursday)

  • All 36 passengers and four crew of a chartered airliner were killed when the twin-engine VC.1 Viking crashed into a French mountain peak during a thunderstorm. The passengers were all British vacationers who were on their way to the mountain resort town of Perpignan after having departed from London.[28][29] Shortly after midnight, the aircraft charted from the French company Airnautic, slammed into the 4,800 feet (1,500 m) high Roc de la Rouquette in the French Pyrenees mountains.
  • The Ankara Agreement was signed in the capital of Turkey, between representatives of the European Economic Community (EEC) and Turkey, and provided for gradual entrance of Turkey into the European Community.[30]
  • Died: Modest Altschuler, 90, Belarusian cellist, orchestral conductor, and composer

September 13, 1963 (Friday)

  • The White House confirmed in a press release that U.S. President Kennedy would be making a trip to Dallas, Texas later in the year, though the specific itinerary was not complete, though the Dallas Times-Herald reported that Kennedy would have "a breakfast in Dallas, luncheon in Fort Worth, coffee in San Antonio and dinner in Houston.".[31][32]
  • The charter creating the Organisation of African Unity entered into force, after having been signed on May 25.[33]
  • Mary Kay Cosmetics was incorporated by a Texas widow, Mary Kay Ash, who invested her life savings of $5,000. By the time of her death in 2001, the company had sales of 1.4 billion dollars.[34]
  • Russian dramatist and KGB agent Yuri Krotkov defected to the west while in London.
  • The Glen Canyon Dam, in the U.S. state of Arizona, was "topped out" with the pouring of the last concrete.[35]
  • Barbra Streisand married for the first time at the age of 21, in a wedding to film actor Elliott Gould; they would divorce in 1971.[36]
  • Born: Robin Smith, England cricketer, in Durban, South Africa
  • Died: Eduardo Barrios, 78, Chilean novelist and playwright

September 14, 1963 (Saturday)

September 15, 1963 (Sunday)

September 16, 1963 (Monday)

September 17, 1963 (Tuesday)

  • In Iran's Parliamentary elections, the New Iran Party won 140 of the 200 seats. The party's leader, Hassan Ali Mansur, would become the new Prime Minister.
  • Near the town of Chualar, California, a truck carrying 56 migrant farm workers, mostly from Mexico, was struck by a train as it was returning from a celery field at the end of the day. Twenty-two of the men died at the scene, and another ten died of their injuries later.[53]
  • On television, David Janssen made his first appearance in the title role of The Fugitive, portraying Dr. Richard Kimble, a physician who had wrongfully been convicted of murder. Barry Morse portrayed Indiana detective Philip Gerard, whose relentless pursuit of Kimble would end with the series finale on August 29, 1967.[54]

September 18, 1963 (Wednesday)

Patty Duke portraying two "identical cousins"
  • Rioters burned down the British Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, in protest at the formation of Malaysia.[55]
  • The first flight of the ASSET project, (Aerothermodynamic-elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests), a winged space payload vehicle, was carried out, to develop a manned spacecraft which could return from orbit and land on a runway.[56]
  • The Patty Duke Show premiered on television, with actress Patty Duke playing two roles as "identical cousins". Camera tricks allowed Duke to appear as both Patty Lane and her look-alike cousin Cathy Lane.
  • The last sports event took place at the Polo Grounds in New York City, with baseball's New York Mets losing to the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-1 before a crowd of only 1,752 people.[57] When the game ended, the fans ran onto the field, vandalizing the scoreboard and the sod on the field, as well as some of the seats in the stadium, which was scheduled to be torn down in 1964.[58]

September 19, 1963 (Thursday)

September 20, 1963 (Friday)

  • At the United Nations, U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint moon mission between the US and the Soviet Union.[61][62] The Soviet Union Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported the speech, but commented that the idea as "premature". Kennedy would die two months later, Soviet Chairman Khrushchev would be deposed within 13 months, and the United States would proceed alone in its lunar program.[63]
  • The first successful prenatal blood transfusion in history was performed in New Zealand at the National Women's Hospital at Auckland. Dr. William Liley carried out the transfusion on the unborn son of a woman identified only as "Mrs. E. McLeod" in order to treat the fetus for hemolytic disease. The baby was born later in the day.[64][65][66]

September 21, 1963 (Saturday)

September 22, 1963 (Sunday)

September 23, 1963 (Monday)

September 24, 1963 (Tuesday)

  • The U.S. Senate ratified the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty by an overwhelming majority, 80-19, fourteen more than the two-thirds majority required by the U.S. Constitution.[73] John F. Kennedy considered the ratification of the treaty, which would go into effect on October 11, the greatest achievement of his presidency, according to aide Theodore Sorensen.[74]
  • Yaakov Herzog, a deputy at the Foreign Ministry of Israel, secretly met in London with King Hussein of Jordan, beginning a dialogue between the two neighboring nations that were, officially, enemies. King Hussein had suggested the meeting, explaining later that "One had to break that barrier... whether it led anywhere or not."[75]
  • The rural-themed situation comedy Petticoat Junction began a seven season run on CBS television, after producer Paul Henning's success with The Beverly Hillbillies. Bea Benaderet, who had portrayed Pearl Bodine mother on the first show, starred as Kate Bradley, as the operator of a hotel accessible only by train. Petticoat Junction was not a spinoff of The Beverly Hillbillies, although, in later years, the characters from the two shows would appear in crossover episodes.
  • Eighteen people were killed and twelve seriously injured in the explosion of a fireworks factory at the Italian city of Caserta. The factory owner, who was killed in the blast, had reportedly been asking the employees to rush to produce additional fireworks for the festival of Saint Michael the Archangel.[76]

September 25, 1963 (Wednesday)

Former President Bosch
Former Secretary of War Profumo
  • Dominican Republic President Juan Bosch was overthrown in a military coup, only seven months after he had become the nation's first democratically elected leader.[77] Military leaders installed a group of three civilians, headed by Emilio de Los Santos as President, to preside over the nation.[78]
  • The U.S. House of Representatives voted 271-155 to approve the reduction of the federal income tax rate.[79] The bill would pass the U.S. Senate, and be signed into law on February 26, 1964.[80]
  • The Denning Report on the Profumo affair was published in Great Britain. The report concluded that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and the rest of his cabinet, had not been aware of the indiscretions of War Minister John Profumo.[81]
  • Einar Gerhardsen was appointed as Prime Minister of Norway for the fourth time, after the resignation of John Lyng. He would serve until October 12, 1965.[82]

September 26, 1963 (Thursday)

  • After only one day on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, bank robber Carl Close was arrested by local authorities in Anderson, South Carolina. Close had just robbed a branch of the First National Bank in Anderson, and was stopped by a detective three minutes later while trying to commandeer another car.[83]
  • A 38-year-old man from Waynesville, North Carolina, crashed his pickup truck through the closed iron gates of the White House, stopping short of hitting the building. The unarmed man, who reportedly demanded to see President Kennedy and shouted that "the Communists are taking over in North Carolina", was taken to a hospital for observation. The President was out at the time.[84]
  • An panicked elephant was chased for 90 minutes through the streets of Lansing, Michigan, after running away from an outdoor circus at a shopping center, injuring one man and causing extensive damage to a department store. "Little Rajjee", a 16-year old elephant, was performing at the King Circus at the parking lot of South Logan Shopping Center when she got loose. Pursued by hundreds of curious people, she fractured the pelvis of a bystander, and rampaged through a residential south Lansing neighborhood, before crashing through the doors of Arlan's Department Store on Fenton Street.[85] Her handlers had her under control twice, but Rajje was panicked by a mob inside the store and by a burglar alarm before city police shot and killed her.[86]
  • T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems 1909–1962, selected by the author, were published on his 75th birthday.
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September 27, 1963 (Friday)

September 28, 1963 (Saturday)

  • Jim Morrison, a 19-year-old student at Florida State University and future founder of the rock group The Doors, was arrested for the first of six times, after he and his friends stole items from a Tallahassee Police Department cruiser. Morrison spent a night in jail, then paid a fifty dollar fine and continued his studies at FSU.[89]
  • Born: Wei Wei, Mongolian pop singer, in Hohhot

September 29, 1963 (Sunday)

September 30, 1963 (Monday)

  • The Pantone Color Matching System, developed in the United States, was introduced and would become "a de facto international colour standard" for printing companies around the world.[92]

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  10. "Negroes to School With White Tots", Nevada Daily Mail (Reno), September 4, 1963.
  11. "Troopers Rush to Birmingham", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 4, 1963.
  12. "Police Bar Negroes From Schools", Glasgow Herald, 7 September 1963.
  13. "Birmingham Rioting Leaves Negro Dead", 5 September 1963.
  14. "Christine Keeler", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 4, 1963, p1
  15. "Senators Win 100,000th Game, 7 to 2", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 7, 1963, p15
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  23. "Italian Mafia boss, Bernardo Provenzano, is arrested", New York Times, April 11, 2006
  24. "Draft Days Are Over For Married Men", Miami News, September 10, 1963, p1
  25. "French Plane Crash Kills 40", Miami News, September 12, 1963, p1
  26. "Indian Air Crash Kills 18", Miami News, September 11, 1963, p1
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  28. "36 British holidaymakers killed in air crash", The Guardian (London), September 13, 1963, p1
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  51. "Birth Of Malaysia Sets Off Riots", Miami News, September 16, 1963, p1
  52. Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Duke University Press, 2000) p139
  53. "27 Farm Workers Killed In California Train-Bus Crash", Miami News, September 18, 1963, p7
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  55. Peter Busch, All the Way With JFK?: Britain, the US, and the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 2003) p174
  56. "U.S. Launches Winged Spaceship", Miami News, September 18, 1963, p1
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  71. "Khrush Hails New Czech Red Premier— Kremlin Approves Prague Shakeup And Siroky Ouster", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 23, 1963, p2
  72. "Dominicans Accuse Haiti Of Town Blast— Threaten Air Raid On Duvalier Palace For Border Shelling", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 24, 1963, p2
  73. "Senate Ratifies Test Ban Pact By Vote of 80-19", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 25, 1963, p1
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  85. "Police Kill Berserk Elephant— Wide Havoc Caused by Big Beast", Lansing (MI) State Journal, September 27, 1963, p1
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