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June 27, 1963 (Thursday) In a visit to Ireland, U.S. President Kennedy visited Dunganstown in County Wexford, from which his great-grandfather Patrick Kennedy had left in 1843 to emigrate to the United States. "If he hadn't left," Kennedy joked, "I'd be working at the Albatross Company", a local fertilizer factory.
Timeline of the Space Race. This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space Race. This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation.
November 2–4 – 1963 Freedom Ballot, a mock election organized to protest and combat the systematic disenfranchisement of blacks in Mississippi. November 10 – Malcolm X makes his "Message to the Grass Roots" speech in Detroit. November 16 – A newspaper strike begins in Toledo, Ohio. November 18 – The first push-button telephone is made ...
On June 11, 1963, in his finest hour as president, Kennedy gives a televised address to the nation, vowing to send civil rights legislation to Congress. ... 1963, bombing of the 16th Street ...
16 June. In an attempt to resolve the Buddhist crisis, a Joint Communique was signed between President Diệm and Buddhist leaders. [25]: 273–7 17 June. Outside Xá Lợi Pagoda, shortly after 9:00 a.m, a crowd of around 2,000 people were confronted by police who still ringed the pagoda despite the Joint Communique. A riot eventually broke ...
The Report to the American People on Civil Rights was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by United States President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963, in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Expressing civil rights as a moral issue, Kennedy moved past ...
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.
Outgoing mayor Art Hanes left office after the Alabama State Supreme Court ruled that Albert Boutwell could take office on May 21, 1963. Upon picking up his last paycheck, Bull Connor remarked tearfully, "This is the worst day of my life." [108] In June 1963, the Jim Crow signs regulating segregated public places in Birmingham were taken down ...