WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1963
Find out what all happened July to October 1963

France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia. (10. October 1963)

President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. (15. August 1963)

John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. (7. October 1963)

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech (28. August 1963)

North Borneo (now Sabah) achieve a self governance. (31. August 1963)

The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is founded. (6. September 1963)

Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes. (8. August 1963)

Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights. (28. August 1963)

American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (66 mi). (22. August 1963)

Sarawak achieve independence. (22. July 1963)

The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens. (29. September 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)

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States (15. September 1963)

Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland, UK. (15. August 1963)

In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it. (9. October 1963)

CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. (2. September 1963)

Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster. (26. July 1963)

Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. (4. October 1963)

The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. (1. July 1963)

The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty. (5. August 1963)