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| 1963 |
| | | Terence O'Neill succeeds Basil Brooke (Lord Brookeborough) as Northern Ireland's prime minister | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Saloth Sar, changing his name to Pol Pot, begins to build up the Cambodian Communist party and Khmer Rouge | |
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| 1963 |
| | | English author Margaret Drabble publishes her first novel, A Summer Birdcage | |
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| 1963 |
| | | The Partial Test Ban Treaty, signed by the USA, USSR and UK, is the first of many international attempts to limit the threat of nuclear war | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Robert Mugabe and Ndabaningi Sithole split from ZAPU to found ZANU, the Zimbabwe African National Union | |
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| 1963 |
| | | In The Feminine Mystique US feminist Betty Friedan challenges the stereotypical view of woman's role | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, retires after building the company to international stature | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Bob Marley and five others form a band, the Wailers, that will for the first time give Jamaican music a global following | |
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| 1963 |
| | | A massive civil rights march in Washington 'for Jobs and Freedom' wins the support of President Kennedy | |
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| 1963 |
| | | 'I have a dream' says Martin Luther King to 200,000 civil rights demonstrators in Washington | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Australian tennis players Margaret Court and Ken Fletcher achieve the grand slam in mixed doubles | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Malaysia, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah form the Federation of Malaysia | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Sexual intercourse begins in this year, according to Philip Larkin's 1974 poem Annus Mirabilis | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Andy Warhol moves into films with Sleep, showing a man asleep for six hours | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Konrad Adenauer resigns after 14 years as Chancellor of West Germany and is succeeded by his economics minister, Ludwig Erhard | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Macmillan resigns on grounds of ill health and is succeeded by Alec Douglas-Home as UK premier | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Scottish Grand Prix driver Jim Clark wins the first of his two Formula One titles | |
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| 1963 |
| | | The Tupamaros are formed as an urban guerrilla group in Uruguay | |
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| 1963 |
| | | President Kennedy is shot in a motorcade driving through downtown Dallas, in Texas | |
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| 1963 |
| | | On the death of John F. Kennedy, Vice-president Lyndon Johnson succeeds him as president of the USA | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Chief suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by night-club owner Jack Ruby just two days after the assassination of President Kennedy | |
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| 1963 |
| | | An invasion of Rwanda by Tutsi guerrillas prompts the first major Hutu massacre of Tutsis | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Zanzibar becomes an independent nation and a member of the Commonwealth | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Kenya becomes independent, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister | |
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| 1963 |
| | | The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved, as the three colonies go their separate ways | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem, in the first such meeting since 1438 | |
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| 1964 |
| | | British film stars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley begin a famous partnership in Ashton's The Dream | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Senior officers in Brazil seize power, alleging the threat of an imminent communist takeover | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Ian Smith, now prime minister of Rhodesia, arrests leading black politicians Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge as the United Republic of Tanzania | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) becomes world heavyweight champion for the first time, defeating Sonny Liston | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |
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| 1964 |
| | | US physicists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discover cosmic background radiation, lending strong support to the Big Bang theory | |
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| 1964 |
| | | US poet John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs introduce Henry, his alter ego | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Papa Doc Duvalier, ruling through the brutal Tontons Macoutes, makes himself president of Haiti for life | |
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