The indecision did not last long: during May 1963 the CCITT Working Party on the New Telegraph Alphabet proposed to assign lower case characters to columns 6 and 7, and International Organization for Standardization TC 97 SC 2 voted during October to incorporate the change into its draft standard.

The X3. 2. 4 task group voted its approval for the change to ASCII at its May 1963 meeting.

Corral ( 1957 ), The Devil's Disciple ( 1959 ), The List of Adrian Messenger ( 1963 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), Victory at Entebbe ( 1976 ) and Tough Guys ( 1986 ) which fixed the notion of the pair as something of a team in the public imagination.

In 1962 the United States pressured the Netherlands into secret talks with Indonesia which in August 1962 produced the New York Agreement, and Indonesia assumed administrative responsibility for West Irian on 1 May 1963.

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (; ; born Ali Mohamed al-Fakheri, 1963 – 10 May 2009 ) was a Libyan captured and interrogated by the American and Egyptian forces.

* 1963 – James May, English television presenter

Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.

The quota principle of reserved seats for non-Africans was abandoned, and open elections were held in May 1963.

A new constitution took effect in May 1963, providing for virtually complete internal self-government.

In May 1963, legislative elections took place for the first time, and the royalist coalition secured a small plurality of seats.

Only one List A game was ever played at the ground, and this was only the second match of its type: Glamorgan's Gillette Cup fixture against Somerset on 22 May 1963.

* Leroy Gordon " Gordo " Cooper, Jr., USAF ( 1927 – 2004 ), flew 15 May 1963

In May 1963, Lipscomb appeared at the first Monterey Folk Festival in California.

Luis Somoza Debayle became President ( 29 September 1956 to 1 May 1963 ), and was effectively dictator of the country until his death, but his brother Anastasio Somoza Debayle held great power as head of the National Guard.

On 11 May 1963, the Italian president Antonio Segni awarded Pope John XXIII the Balzan Prize for his engagement for peace.

On 25 May 1963, the Pope suffered another hemorrhage and required blood transfusions, but the cancer had perforated the stomach wall and peritonitis soon set in.

Pol Pot ( 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998 ), born Saloth Sar (), was a Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until his death in 1998.

* Method of forming a semiconductor, filed July 1963, issued May 1965, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.

Clemens married Debra Lynn Godfrey ( born May 27, 1963 ) on November 24, 1984.

Thomas Edward Burnett, Jr. ( May 29, 1963 – September 11, 2001 ) was the vice-president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corporation, a medical devices company based in Pleasanton, California.

Stewart did not fit Oldham's mould, according to Wyman, of " pretty, thin, long-haired boys ," and was removed from the line-up in May 1963 to become road manager and occasional pianist for the band until his death in 1985.

* May 29 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States ( d. 1963 )

* May 25 – Theodore Roethke, American poet ( d. 1963 )

* May 9 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor ( d. 1963 )

* May 24 – Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist and international party giver ( d. 1963 )

On the February 20, 2011, episode of Top Gear, James May had Bovril in an urn inside a Claas Dominator combine harvester in Norway, which was converted into a snow plough.

Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven ( 23 May 1898 – 8 May 1945 ) was a Nazi leader, best known as the Reichskommissar for Norway during the German occupation of Norway.

In Norway, Labour Day or " Arbeidernes Dag " is on the 1st of May every year.

Following formal discussions at the International Geological Congress, Oslo Norway, August 2008, the International Commission on Stratigraphy ( ICS ) decided in May 2009 to make the Quaternary the youngest period of the Cenozoic Era with its base at 2. 588 Mya and including the Gelasian age, which was formerly considered part of the Neogene Period and Pliocene Epoch.

By May 1827 he was back in Norway.

On 16 May 1940 the Administrasjonsrådet asked Rikskommisariatet why radio receivers had been confiscated from Jews in Norway.

The German Army and the German Kriegsmarine invaded Norway in 1940 and the German Army occupied all of Norway until May 1945.

* May 3 – King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway ( d. 1872 )

He was ousted in favor of Winston Churchill in May 1940, after the Invasion of Norway.

* May 24 – WWII: The Anglo-French Supreme War Council decides to withdraw all forces from Norway.

* May 10 – Einar Henry Gerhardsen, former Prime Minister of Norway ( d. 1987 )

* May 26 – A general strike begins in Norway.

** May 17, 1814 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.

* May 17 – Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form The Nasjonal Samling ( the National-Socialist Party ) of Norway.

* May 21 – Christian I, King of Denmark and Norway dies and is succeeded by his son John ( 1481 – 1513 ).

* May 21 – King Christian I of Denmark and Norway ( b. 1426 )

* May 17 – The Constitution of Norway is signed and the Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected King of Norway by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly.

* May 25 – After docking in Miami at 05: 00, the SS Norway ( old SS France ) is severely damaged by a boiler explosion at 06: 30, that kills 7, and injures 17 crew members.

* May 3 – Eric of Pomerania, King of Norway, Denmark and Sweden ( b. 1382 )