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1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1963rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.

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From top to bottom, left to right: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas; Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama kills four girls; the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam sparks protests and self-immolations; the Ramadan Revolution overthrows Iraq’s monarchy; the Soviet Vostok 6 sends Valentina Tereshkova as the first woman in space; Pope Paul VI succeeds John XXIII and continues the Second Vatican Council; the 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion kills 81 in Indianapolis; and Hurricane Flora devastates the Caribbean, killing thousands.
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Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation

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August 28: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

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November 22: Assassination of John F. Kennedy

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James May
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José Mourinho

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Michael Jordan
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Larry the Cable Guy
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Seal
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William Baldwin

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Thomas Anders
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Anthony Albanese
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Rick Rubin
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Quentin Tarantino

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Graham Norton
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Garry Kasparov
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Eric McCormack
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Conan O'Brien
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Jet Li

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Natasha Richardson
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Mike Myers
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Viktor Orbán

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Bernard Cazeneuve
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Jason Isaacs
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Johnny Depp
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
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Helen Hunt
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George Michael

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Brigitte Nielsen
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Phoebe Cates
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Letsie III of Lesotho
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Matti Nykänen
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Martín Torrijos
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Lisa Kudrow

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James Hetfield
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Whitney Houston
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Sridevi
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Emmanuelle Béart
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Glória Pires
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Mohammed VI of Morocco
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Hideo Kojima
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Miro Cerar

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Geert Wilders
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John Powell

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Elisabeth Shue
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Tom Cavanagh
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Farin Urlaub
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Lauren Holly
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Johnny Marr
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Rob Schneider
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Dunga

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Gabby Concepcion
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Ming-Na Wen

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Empress Masako
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Juan Carlos Varela
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Jennifer Beals
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Til Schweiger
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Dick Powell
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Sylvanus Olympio
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Hugh Gaitskell
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Avra Theodoropoulou
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Robert Frost

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Abd al-Karim Qasim
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Sylvia Plath
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Fernando Tambroni
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Rajendra Prasad

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Patsy Cline
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William Beveridge
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Thoralf Skolem
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Henry Bordeaux

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Alma Richards
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Saint Gaetano Catanoso
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Felix Manalo
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

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Herbert Spencer Gasser
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Mehdi Frashëri

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Pope John XXIII
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Pedro Armendáriz

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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Georges Braque

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Edwin Linkomies

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Gustaf Gründgens
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Édith Piaf
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Jean Cocteau

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Ngô Đình Diệm
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Ngô Đình Nhu
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John F. Kennedy
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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Theodor Heuss
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Dinah Washington
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