WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO AUGUST 1963
Find out what all happened June to August 1963

The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government. (24. June 1963)

John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionist American society. Proposing equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal protection for voting rights. (11. June 1963)

The iconic Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol. (24. July 1963)

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI. (21. June 1963)

The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), the current ruling party of Zimbabwe, is formed by a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union. (8. August 1963)

Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. (24. August 1963)

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam. (11. June 1963)

Sarawak achieve independence. (22. July 1963)

Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program (10. June 1963)

American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi. (18. August 1963)

Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo. (30. June 1963)

Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. (19. July 1963)

Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. (16. June 1963)

An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead. (26. July 1963)

A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed. (17. June 1963)

The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo affair. (5. June 1963)

The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. (20. June 1963)

16-year-old Pauline Reade disappears on her way to a dance at the British Railways Club in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders. (12. July 1963)

The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools. (17. June 1963)

The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments. (3. June 1963)