CHRONOLOGY FOR 1963

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On 20 September 1963, the CVA Hancock was directed to move to a position off Taiwan in anticipation of a PRC bombardment of the offshore island. This followed a period of active ROC raiding of the mainland.

U.S. Navy forces responded to domestic disturbances in South Vietnam that culminated in the ! Navember 1963 coup overthrowing President Diem. On 25 August, CINCPACFLT was ordered to station Naval forces off the South Vietnamese coast prepared to evacuated American nationals. On 11 September, CINCPAC returned all Navy forces to normal operations.. This deployment was the first of several in the worsening South Vietnamese internal crisis. Shortly following the coup, two aircraft carriers (Hancock and Oriskany) and an amphibious force were operation off the Vietnam coast. On November 7th, the last units were released for normal operations.

January

2nd General Lyman L. Lemnitzer takes command of NATO in Europe.

4th The United Arab Republic says it will not move its troops from Yemen.

5th The military junta in Peru suspends constitutional guarantees and arrests alleged communist agitators and their leaders.

U.S. arms reach Bombay to support India in its border conflict with China.

7th The U.S. and Soviet governments officially declare the Cuban crisis closed.

8th Brazil votes to establish a strong presidency for Joao Goulart.

10th. Tshombe abandons his scorched earth policy and submits to the UN Force in Katanga.

13th President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo is shot and killed by unknown assassins.

14th De Gaulle of France vetoes Britain's entry into the European Economic Community.

President Kennedy asks Congress for a $13.5 billion cut in U.S. income taxes.

15th East German Communist leader Ulbricht denounces China's attack on India.

16th Saudi Arabia and Britain resume diplomatic relations broken in the Suez crisis of 1956.

18th Nicholas Grunitsky assumes control of Togo during civil unrest.

20th Turkey approves U.S. plans to substitute Polaris submarines for Turkish missile bases.

22nd The Franco-German treaty of cooperation is signed in Paris by Adenauer and de Gaulle.

24th Italy approves U.S. plans to substitute Polaris submarines for Italian missile bases.

27th Results of Iran's national referendum show voter approval for the Shah's reforms.

29th EEC talks in Brussels end in failure; de Gaulle's veto of Britain's entry stands.

31st Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker charges the United States with unwarranted interference in his country's affairs.

U.S.-Soviet-British talks on a nuclear test ban fail in New York.

February

1st The Soviet Union and France sign a pact to expand trade by a third during 1963-5.

Hastings Kasnuzu Banda becomes the first prime minister of Nyasaland.

3rd France sends its Chief of Staff to Madrid to negotiate closer military ties. Vice Chancellor Erhard of West Germany criticizes EEC rejection of Britain.

6th The Canadian Parliament sets national elections for April and is dissolved after voting twice against the Diefenbaker governnment.

8th Premier Abdel Karem Kassim of Iraq is assassinated in a bloody military coup.

21st Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, is elected pope and becomes Paul VI.

24th Zanzibar begins internal self-government.

26th President Kennedy visits West Berlin.

28th Premier Khrushchev visits East Berlin.

March

 

1st Portugal passes for eventually integrating its Afro-Asian territories into the nation, with the escudo as the sole unit of currency.

4th French coal miners on strike defy de Gaulle's order to return to work.

6th City officials of Albany, Ga., revoke all segregation ordinances.

7th Poland and West Germany sign a three-year agreement for trade expansion.

Pope John gives a private audience to Izvestia editor Alexei Adzhbei.

8th Ba'athist army officers overthrow the Syrian government in a bloodless coup.

16th General Chung Hee Park withdraws his promise for summer elections in South Korea.

19th France conducts an underground nuclear test in the Algerian Sahara.

20th A joint U.S.-Soviet program is announced for the launching of weather satellites.

21st Algeria demands that France cease nuclear tests in the Sahara desert.

22nd Hungarian Premier Kadar gives amnesty to 1956 rebels and other political prisoners.

30th U.S. officials are instructed to prevent raids on Cuban shipping from U.S. territory.

President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes of Guatemala is overthrown by a rightist coup.

31st The 144-day New York newspaper strike ends.

April

2nd Khrushchev refuses China's invitation to visit Peking for ideological talks.

The Soviet Union announces launching a fourth moon rocket, Lunik IV.

6th Chung Hee Park announces fall elections for South Korea, with himself as a candidate.

9th Pope John XXIII addresses the encyclical Pacem in Terris to "all men of gopd will."

10th The U.S. atomic submarine Thresher with all its crew is lost under the Atlantic.

12th Martin Luther King is arrested during a Birmingham anti-segregation march.

19th President Kennedy says he has no power to deny federal funds to Mississippi because of civil rights violations.

22nd Lester B. Pearson becomes Prime Minister of Canada, succeeding John Diefenbaker.

23rd William L. Moore, alone on a "freedom walk" to Mississippi, is found slain In Alabama.

27th Premier Castro of Cuba arrives in the Soviet Union for a month's visit.

28th At an emergency session of the OAS, Dominica charges Haiti with aggression.

May

2nd The Evian accords between France and Algeria are revised to eliminate nuclear testing in the Sahara desert.

10th The $230,000 Baizan peace prize is presented in Rome to Pope John XXIII.

12th President Kennedy sends 3,000 troops to keep the peace in Birmingham.

14th Kuwait becomes a member of the United Nations.

16th Maj. L. Gordon Cooper lands safely after completing a 22-orbit space flight.

India and Pakistan end six months of discussion on Kashmir without achieving agreement.

Schneor Zalman Shazar is elected the third president of Israel.

24th U.S. Senators ask that a treaty banning atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests be offered to the Soviet Union.

25th The meeting of independent African states in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ends with the forming of the Organization of African Unity.

June

1st Jomo Kenyatta is sworn in as the first prime minister of Kenya.

3rd John XXIII dies in Rome.

5th British War Secretary John Profumo resigns.

9th Fernando Belaunde Terry is elected president of Peru, to succeed the military junta.

10th President Kennedy speaks at American University urging efforts to ban nuclear weapons testing and to reduce world tensions.

11th The UN Security Council votes approval of the Yemeni peace-keeping operation..

In Vietnam a Buddhist priest is the first of seven to burn himself to death in protest over repressive religious policies.

Governor Wallace of Alabama, confronted by National Guard troops, allows two Negroes to enroll at the University of Alabama.

12th Medgar W. Evers, a Mississippi Negro civil rights leader, is killed by a sniper's bullet outside his Jackson home.

16th Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion resigns.

17th Bolivia formally withdraws from the OAS Council over a border dispute with Chile.

19th Two Soviet cosmonauts land after twin orbits; Bykovsky made 81 orbits during nearly five days and Tereshkova, the first woman in space, made 48 orbits in almost three days.

2Oth The United States and the Soviet Union sign an agreement establishing a "hot line" emergency communications link between Washington and Moscow.

21st The Soviet Union charges China with 5,000 border violations and with taking over Soviet lands in the Sinkiang region.

24th The U.S. Senate ratifies the partial nuclear test ban treaty.

25th A military coup deposes President Bosch in the Dominican Republic.

29th Paul VI convenes the second session of the Vatican Ecumenical Council.

 

 

July

2nd President Kennedy is received by Pope Paul VI in Rome.

4th De Gaulle of France visits West German Chancellor Adenauer in Bonn.

6th In British Guiana, the Trade Unions Council accepts a compromise settlement ending an 11-week general strike.

8th Foreign Minister Spaak of Belgium visits Khrushchev and discusses nuclear testing.

9th Delegates from Malaya, Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak sign an agreement to establish the Federation of Malaysia.

11th President Arosemena of Ecuador is ousted by a military coup.

15th Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States begin talks on a test ban in Moscow.

19th Premier Khrushchev attacks Communists who favor nuclear war and accuses the Chinese of trying to overthrow Soviet leadership.

20th The Common Market nations and their 18 African associates sign a five-year agreement to liberalize trade and aid.

Sino-Soviet talks on resolving the ideological conflict end in failure in Moscow.

24th Guatemala severs diplomatic relations with Britain because of scheduled self-government for British Honduras, which Guatemala claims.

25th The United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union initial a test ban agreement in Moscow prohibiting nuclear testing on land, in space, and under water.

26th Syncom II, the first synchronous satellite, is successfully orbited at Cape Canaveral.

A massive earthquake devastates Skoplje, Yugoslavia, killing over 1,000 persons.

31St Arturo Illia is elected president of Argentina to succeed Jose Maria Guido.

August

5th A partial nuclear test ban treaty is signed in Moscow by Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States.

6th De Gaulle rejects a U.S. offer for a nuclear striking force for France in exchange for his signature on the test ban treaty.

7th The UN Security Council passes a resolution barring arms shipments to South Africa.

8th A masked gang robs a Glasgow-to-London mail train of about $2.8 million.

15th China charges the Soviet Union with breaking its 1957 promise to assist China in tlie development of atomic weapons.

President Youlou of the Congo Brazzaville is forced to resign.

20th Martial law is imposed as troops raid pagodas and jail hundreds in South Vietnam.

27th A four-party coalition led by Premier John Lyng takes office in Norway.

28th Bolivian tin miners release foreign hostages and end their 15 day strike.

Over 200,000 march peacefully on Washington to support civil rights legislation.

30th Desegregation begins in South Carolina as eleven Negroes enter four previously all-white public schools in Charleston.

The "hot line" communications link between Washington and Moscow starts operation.

September

3rd Vice President Johnson arrives in Stockholm on a visit to the Scandinavian countries.

11th Three Negroes enroll at the University of South Carolina without incident.

15th A bomb explodes in a Birmingham, Ala., church, killilng four Negro girls.

16th Canada agrees to sell $500 million worth of wheat to the Soviet Union.

The Federation of Malaysia is formally inaugurated.

18th Protesting Malaysia's formation, Jakarta mobs sack the British embassy in Indonesia.

The United States resumes underground nuclear testing in Nevada.

11th The United States recognizes the new Ba'athist government of Iraq.

14th Harold Wilson is elected leader of Britain's Labour party to succeed Hugh Gaitskell.

15th French extremists are arrested and accused of a plot to assassinate de Gaulle.

19th Kennedy tells Congress he has been assured that several thousand Soviet troops in Cuba will be removed by March 15th.

22nd Soviet defense chief Malinovsky reafirmms Soviet military support for Cuba in the vent of an invasion of the island.

25th Prime Minister Nehru of India refuses to recognize the Sino-Pakistan agreement fixing the Kashmir-Sinkiang border.

October

3rd Gambia attains internal self-government.

7th Mme. Nhu begins an unofficial U.S. visit to defend policies of the Vietnam regime.

9th A landslide into a lake behind the Vajont Dam causes a dam break that destroys Longarone, Italy, and kills 2,000 people.

13th Hurricane Flora destroys farms and villages in Cuba and Haiti, killing thousands.

15th Military junta leader Gen. Chung Hee Park is elected president of South Korea.

16th The Common Market and the United States agree to arbitration of the "chicken war." Ludwig Erhard succeeds Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor of West Germany.

18th Sir Alec Douglas-Home becomes Britain's Prime Minister, succeeding Harold Macmillan.

26th Yugoslav President Tito ends a six-week visit to South America, the United States, and United Nations headquarters.

30th The AEC releases an underground nuclear explosion to investigate detection possibifities.

Morocco and Algeria agree to a cease-fire in their border dispute.

31st The UN observer team. in Yemen is told to remain there until Jan. 4, 1964.

November

 

7th A military coup deposes the Diem regime in South Vietnam.

12th Governor Rockefeller says he will seek the Republican presidential nomination.

18th Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia rejects further U.S. economic and mifitary aid.

Colonel Arif overthrows the Ba'athist regime in Iraq and assumes control of the country.

Rifle bullets kill President John F. Kennedy as he rides through Dallas, Tex., in a' car. Governor Connally of Texas is wounded at the same time. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in at Dallas as the 36th President of the United States.

22nd Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested.

24th On live television, the whole country sees Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub operator, shoot Oswald, who had been charged with the assassination of the president, as he is being taken through police department corridors under heavy guard.

25th President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

27th President Johnson urges Congress to act on civil rights and the tax cuts.

29th Chief Justice Warren agrees to lead a commission charged with investigating the assassination of President Kennedy and the killing of Oswald.

December

1St Raul Leone is elected President of Venezuela despite threats of leftist terrorists.

4th Pope Paul VI announces he will visit the Middie East in January.

The second session of the Vatican Council ends, having approved ritual use of vernacular.

In England, Christine Keeler is sentenced to nine months in prison for perjury.

9th Chairman Khrushchev announces the diversion of Soviet resources to expansion in chemicals as well as in agricultural and consumer goods.

l0th Zanzibar becomes an independent nation.

12th Kenya gains full independence.

14th Premier Chou En-lai of China arrives in the United Arab Republic to begin an extensive tour of African States.

16th Zanzibar and Kenya become the 112th and 113th members of the United Nations.

20th East Germany permits Berliners to visit relatives in East Berlin at Christmas.

21St Fighting between the Greek and Turkish populations begins in Cyprus.

27th West German Chancellor Erhard goes to the United States to see President Johnson.

And in December 1963 Aircraft Carrier USS Hancock CVA_19 returns from South East Asia operations.

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