WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1963
Find out what all happened January to November 1963

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

Kenya gains internal self-rule (Madaraka Day). (1. June 1963)

South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine. (8. May 1963)

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

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

The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens. (29. September 1963)

In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections. (26. April 1963)

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

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

Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. (16. June 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 Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens. (1. November 1963)

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

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

Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days. (7. November 1963)

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

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

The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo. (27. February 1963)

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

Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board. (4. September 1963)