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.

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

* 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador

* 1963 – The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M / S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.

* 1963 – Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, Mexican journalist

* 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.

* 1963 – Michael Waltrip, American race car driver

* 1963 – Stefan Kisyov, Bulgarian novelist

* 1877 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician ( d. 1963 )

* 1898 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( d. 1963 )

* 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Charles Ingram, English game show contestant and author

* 1963 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker and author

* 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1963 – Sridevi, Indian actress

* 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Laura Bennett, American fashion designer

* 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

* 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 ).

* 1963 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.

* 1914 – Nam Phương, Emperor of Vietnam ( d. 1963 )

* 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.

* 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.

The rifle entered United States Army service and was deployed for jungle warfare operations in South Vietnam in 1963, becoming the U. S. military's standard service rifle of the Vietnam War by 1969, replacing the M14 rifle in that role.

* 1963 – Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.

Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses " about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process ", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the " delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ".

In 1963, he returned to Vietnam to aid his fellow monks in their non-violent peace efforts.

* 1963 through 1967-Three tours of duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War

*** 1963 – After the overthrow of the Diem Regime in early November 1963, U. S. President John F. Kennedy increased the number of U. S. military advisers from 800 to more than 16, 000 to cope with rising guerrilla activity in Vietnam.

* January 3 – Ngo Dinh Diem, 1st President of South Vietnam ( died 1963 )

Ngô Đình Diệm (; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963 ) was the first president of South Vietnam ( 1955 – 1963 ).

The regime's relations with the United States worsened during 1963, as discontent among South Vietnam ’ s Buddhist majority was simultaneously heightened.

Meanwhile, Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War, from 16, 000 American advisors / soldiers in 1963 to 550, 000 combat troops in early 1968, as American casualties soared and the peace process bogged down.

Foreign affairs were generally quiet except for the Vietnam War, which escalated from limited involvement in 1963 to a large-scale military operation in 1968 that soon overshadowed the Great Society.

After Johnson became president in November 1963 following Kennedy's assassination, Clifford served frequently as an unofficial White House Counsel and sometimes undertook short-term official duties, including a trip with General Maxwell Taylor in 1967 to Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

American Protest Against the War in Vietnam 1963 – 1975 by Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan.

At Ellsberg's criminal trial for theft, conspiracy, and espionage in connection with the publication of the Pentagon Papers by The New York Times, defense attorneys called Zinn as an expert witness to explain to the jury the history of U. S. involvement in Vietnam from World War II to 1963.

Folk rock songs like Bob Dylan's 1963 Masters of War and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall articulated the dread caused by the threat of nuclear war.

* Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope ( 1883 – 1963 ), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral

Unveiled on 16 August 1963, a wooden and metal organ in Manning Chapel, Acadia University, is dedicated to Acadia University's war dead of the First World War.

Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.

* Profumo Affair ( 1963 ): Secretary of State for War John Profumo had an affair with prostitute Christine Keeler ( to whom he had been introduced by pimp and drug-dealer Stephen Ward ) who was having an affair with a Soviet spy at the same time.

Shortly after Algerian independence, Morocco started a border dispute in October 1963 in which Cuba sent troops to help Algeria ( see: Sand War ).

Vágar Airport was built by the British during World War II ; it was reopened as a civilian international airport in 1963.

* 1963 – British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.

* 1883 – Patrick J. Hurley, American soldier, statesman, and diplomat ; 51st United States Secretary of War and former United States Ambassador to the Republic of China ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.

As Chancellor of Germany ( West Germany ) from 1949 to 1963, he led his country from the ruins of World War II to a powerful and prosperous nation that forged close relations with old enemies France and the United States.

From November / December 1963, Kenya and Somalia fought the Shifta War, which lasted until 1967.

After neighbouring Algeria's 1962 independence from France, border skirmishes in the Tindouf area of south-western Algeria, escalated in 1963 into what is known as the Sand War.

‪ File: Wheeler, John-Archibald 1963 Kopenhagen. jpg ‬‬| John Wheeler ( 1911-2008 ): revived interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II, worked with Niels Bohr to explain principles of nuclear fission, tried to achieve Einstein ’ s vision of a unified field theory, coined the terms black hole, quantum foam, wormhole, and the phrase “ it from bit ”.

After the negotiated retreat of Soviet troops, Romania, under the new leadership of Nicolae Ceauşescu, started to pursue independent policies, including the condemnation of the Soviet-led 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia ( Romania being the only Warsaw Pact country not to take part in the invasion ), the continuation of diplomatic relations with Israel after the Six-Day War of 1967 ( again, the only Warsaw Pact country to do so ), and the establishment of economic ( 1963 ) and diplomatic ( 1967 ) relations with the Federal Republic of Germany.

* Fishwick, Marshall W. Lee after the War 1963.

The Menzies government was able to exploit Labor's divisions over the Cold War and the American alliance, winning an increased majority at what would be Menzies ' last election, the 1963 election.

The following were some important Syrian awards: Order of Umayyads, Medal of Military Honor, the War Medal, Medal for Courage, Yarmuk Medal, Wounded in Action Medal, and Medal of 8 March 1963.

The city developed rapidly after World War II, but this trend was interrupted in 1963 when it was hit by a disastrous earthquake.

From " An Unearthly Child " ( 1963 ) to " The War Machines " ( 1966 ), the TARDIS also had a St. John Ambulance badge on the main doors, as did real police boxes ; this has been reinstated and the window frame colour has returned to white for Matt Smith's first season as the Doctor, shown in 2010.

Morocco argues that the Algerian position is due to the 1963 Sand War, in which the two countries clashed.