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1963 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.
November 23 – The Golden Age Nursing Home fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio. November 24: President Kennedy lying in state at the Capitol rotunda. November 24 Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas on live national television.
After two trials in 1964 that would both end without the jurors being able to reach a verdict, Beckwith would elude conviction for thirty years before being retried. He would be convicted of the murder on February 5, 1994, [62] and spend the rest of his life in prison, dying in 2001. [63]
November 2, 1963: Corpse of President Ngo Dinh Diem. At 6:37 a.m., [1] guards defending the Presidential Palace in Saigon raised the white flag of surrender after more than two hours of shelling by rebels within the South Vietnam military, but found that President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, had slipped out of the surrounded building, apparently through a tunnel that emerged ...
Their white guard, Johannes Greeff, served three years of a six-year sentence, and later received 2,000 African pounds. [39] Wolpe and Goldreich would elude a nationwide search and, "disguised as priests", make it to Swaziland (which was surrounded by South Africa), and on September 8, would charter a plane to fly to Tanganyika.
The United States federal minimum wage was increased to $1.25 an hour ($12.44 in 2023 dollars). [7] Fifty years later, the minimum wage would be $7.25 an hour. NASA's Mission Planning Coordination Group was established to review monthly activities in Gemini operations, network guidance and control, and trajectories and orbits, and to ensure the coordination of various Manned Spacecraft Center ...
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The three employees who were present and 21 residents survived. About 2/3 of the survivors were invalids and some had suffered burns and smoke inhalation. [3]Thirty-five of the home's thirty-six mental patients died during the blaze and many were so burned that identification was done based on the bed registration of the bed they were found in. [3] Before any bodies were removed in the ...