WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1963
Find out what all happened January to May 1963

The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command. (8. March 1963)

Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops. (11. May 1963)

Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US (24. May 1963)

In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established. (25. May 1963)

An assassination attempt of Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis, who will die five days later. (22. May 1963)

Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac. (2. January 1963)

129 American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea. (10. April 1963)

A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem. (30. May 1963)

Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration. (8. February 1963)

Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes. (21. March 1963)

The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party. (8. February 1963)

The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. (22. January 1963)

Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona (13. March 1963)

The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. (30. April 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. (8. January 1963)

Kuwait joins the United Nations. (14. May 1963)

Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space. (15. May 1963)

The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided. (13. May 1963)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation. (16. April 1963)

The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom. (22. March 1963)