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* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
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Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.
* 1963 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M / S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
* 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.
* 1998 – Rozz Williams, American musician ( Christian Death, Shadow Project, and Premature Ejaculation ) ( b. 1963 )
After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).
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ASCII itself was first used commercially during 1963 as a seven-bit teleprinter code for American Telephone & Telegraph's TWX ( TeletypeWriter eXchange ) network.
* 1963 – James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Metallica, Spastik Children, and Leather Charm )
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* 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
Zahir Shah was able to govern on his own in 1963 and despite the factionalism and political infighting a new constitution was introduced in 1964 which turned Afghanistan into a modern democratic state by introducing free elections, a parliament, civil rights, women's rights and universal suffrage.
File: Joan Baez Bob Dylan. jpg | Bob Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights " March on Washington ", August 28, 1963
As Birmingham was the center of industry and population in Alabama, in 1963 civil rights leaders chose to mount a campaign there for desegregation.
* Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963, set in 1963 during civil rights movement.
* The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage is a prize awarded by Georgia Institute of Technology to individuals who uphold the legacy of former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., whose actions in Atlanta, Georgia and testimony before congress in support of the 1963 Civil Rights Bill legislation set a standard for courage during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s.
Nonetheless, in the event of situations not covered under the 1963 Act, the courts in India continue to exercise their inherent powers in terms of Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, which applies to all civil courts in India.
There was a concern ( illustrated in C. P. Snow ’ s Strangers and Brothers series of novels ) that technical and scientific expertise was mushrooming, to a point at which the " good all-rounder " culture of the administrative civil servant with a classics or other arts degree could no longer properly engage with it: as late as 1963, for example, the Treasury had just 19 trained economists.
She participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, singing at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
A watershed in the civil rights movement occurred in 1963 when Shuttlesworth requested that Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ), which Shuttlesworth had co-founded, come to Birmingham, where King had once been a pastor, to help end segregation.
The climate of civil unrest prompted the 1963 Speaker Ban Law prohibiting speeches by communists on state campuses in North Carolina.
In 1963, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. described the goal of NVDA in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:
Levitt & Sons had a long history of prohibiting the sale of houses ( including resale by owners ) to African Americans which led to civil rights protests in Bowie in 1963.
In conjunction with the 1963 elections, civil rights leaders organized a statewide " Freedom Ballot ," a mock election that demonstrated both the state-wide pattern of voting rights discrimination and the strong desire of Mississippi blacks for full citizenship.
The magazine published Martin Luther King, Jr .' s defense of civil disobedience in " Letter from Birmingham Jail " in August 1963.
According to the historian John D. Winters of Louisiana Tech University in The Civil War in Louisiana ( 1963 ), " Butler hated Banks and was jealous of his political success and his ' reputation of being the best general selected from civil life.
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