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* 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.
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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 ).
1963 and Xá
Squads of Special Forces and combat police flattened the gates of the Xá Lợi pagoda and smashed their way in at around 00: 20, 21 August 1963.
In 1963, during the Buddhist crisis, he and David Halberstam debunked the claim by the Ngô Đình Diệm regime that the Army of the Republic of Vietnam regular forces had perpetrated the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, which U. S. authorities initially accepted.
1963 and Pagoda
This most notably occurred on the night of August 21, 1963, during the Xa Loi Pagoda raids conducted by the Special Forces, which caused a death toll estimated to range into the hundreds.
It is considered by enthusiasts to be one of the finest classics of the 1960s and 1970s, although this is not reflected in the prices of these cars which is generally less than its more popular contemporaries the Mercedes SL R107 / C107 roadster and coupé ( 1971 – 1989 ) which featured the 3. 5 or 4. 5 litre V8 under the hood, and only a fraction of price commanded by the Pagoda models ( 1963 – 1971 ).
By the time the 2-door coupe and cabriolet W111s were launched, the fins lost their chrome trim and sharp appearance, the arrival of the W113 Pagoda in 1963 saw them further buried into the trunk's contour, and finally disappeared on the W100 600 in 1964.
1963 and raids
The cathedral burned out completely in 1943 during air raids on Berlin and was reconstructed from 1952 up to 1963.
One of the wittier raids from Balliol, in 1962 or 1963, involved the turfing of the whole of Trinity JCR ( complete with daffodils ).
One of the wittier raids from Balliol, in 1962 or 1963, involved the turfing of the whole of Trinity JCR ( complete with daffodils ).
1963 and Army
By March 1963 however, after the visit of Colonel Michael Greene of the United States Army, and the resulting ' Greene Plan ,' the pattern of bilaterally agreed military assistance to various Congolese military components, instead of a single unified effort, was already taking shape.
* 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 transformation of King's African Rifles to Kenya Military Forces on the midnight of 12 December 1963 was a major milestone in the foundation of today's Kenya Army units.
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 – The Ba ' ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d ' état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
In 1963, Sutch and his manager, Reginald Calvert, took over Shivering Sands Army Fort, a Maunsell Fort off Southend and in 1964 started Radio Sutch, intending to compete with other pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline.
Army officers with ties to the Ba ' ath Party overthrew Qasim in the Ramadan Revolution coup of 1963.
The new government elected in July 2006 restored the Kale fortress and plans to rebuild the beautiful 19th century Army House, the Old National Theatre, and the Old National Bank of Macedonia – all destroyed in the 1963 earthquake.
He played an Army sergeant in the 1954 science fiction thriller, Them !, a professor in the 1958 science fiction movie The Brain Eaters, and had a role in The Balcony ( 1963 ), a film adaptation of the Jean Genet play.
Turner was married on May 11, 1963, to Geills McCrae Kilgour ( b. 1937 ) who was a great-niece of Canadian Army doctor John McCrae, the author of what is probably the best-known First World War poem In Flanders Fields, and sister of David Kilgour, a long-time Canadian Member of Parliament.
Gardens planted by families of the original Army post, and later by families of the prison guards, fell into neglect after the prison closure in 1963.
George Simon wrote the liner notes for eleven Miller reissues, among them: Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band, 1955, Glenn Miller On The Air, 1963, and Glenn Miller: A Legendary Performer, 1974.
The largest lake is Lake Hartwell, built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1955 and 1963.
* John Wyndham lived at the Penn Club in Tavistock Square ( 1924-38 ) and then ( except for 1943-46 Army service ) at the Club's new address at 21-22 Bedford Place, off Russell Square ( its present address ), until his marriage to fellow Penn Club adjoining room resident Grace Isabel Wilson in 1963.
In 1963, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers created Lake Walter F. George ( unofficially named Lake Eufaula ) behind the lock and dam of Fort Gaines, Georgia, once again assuring Eufaula's importance as an inland port.
During the height of the Cold War, in 1954, the U. S. Army installed an Ajax-Nike missile base at the airfield which was functional until it was decommissioned in 1963.
After military service with the French Army in the Algerian War between 1959 and 1962, in 1962 he joined the French Foreign Affairs ministry, working as a Secretary at the embassy in London from 1963 to 1967.
* General Alfredo M. Santos-the first four-star general of the Philippine Army and the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( 1963 )
Among the many films she appeared in during this period were The Robe ( 1953 ), Young Bess ( 1953 ), Désirée ( 1954 ), The Egyptian ( 1954 ), Guys and Dolls ( 1955 ) – " in which she's delightfully proper ( and improper ) as the Salvation Army officer Sarah Brown " – The Big Country ( 1958 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ), ( directed by her second husband, Richard Brooks ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), All the Way Home ( 1963 ) – a film of James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family – and The Happy Ending ( 1969 ), again directed by Brooks and for which she received her second Oscar nomination.
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