America - 1963AD
In 1963AD:
A limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed by Britain, the U.S., and the USSR.
President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Lyndon B. Johnson was inaugurated as the 36th President of the U.S.
John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
Martin Luther King, Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.
The American X-15 research aircraft established an altitude record of 67 miles.
Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
Football running back Jim Brown set a record for rushes of 1,863 yards.
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein completed the comic strip painting
Whaam
.
Pop artist Claes Oldenburg created the kapok-filled sculpture
Soft Typewriter
.
American pop vocal group the Beach Boys released the record
Surfin' U.S.A
.
Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick directed the anti-war film
Dr. Strangelove
.
American writer Mary McCarthy published
The Group
.
Peter Sellers starred as Inspector Clouseau in the film
The Pink Panther
.
Sylvia Plath's novel
The Bell Jar
was published in the year of her death.
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