1963 New York Giants season, Regular season
In the final nine games in the 1963 regular season, the Giants lost only once, a 24–17 to the St. Louis Cardinals at Yankee Stadium, two days after the assassination of President Kennedy. (Commissioner Pete Rozelle received broad criticism from many quarters allowing the regular schedule to proceed on that Sunday, for it had been set aside as a national day of mourning. The AFL postponed its four games.) New York closed out the season with big wins over the Dallas Cowboys, Redskins, and Steelers, and the Giants captured their third consecutive Eastern Conference crown on the final Sunday of the season to finish 11–3, a game ahead of the Browns.


1963 New York Giants season, Regular season
Throughout the autumn of 1963, the air above Giants football games virtually hummed with forward passes. The team amassed 3,558 total passing yards, a mere 47 shy of the Baltimore Colts, who were led by Johnny Unitas. More importantly, Tittle led the NFL with 36 touchdown tosses, breaking his one-year old single-season record of 33. But New York's passing game was to be severely tested by the league's acknowledged defensive leader: the Chicago Bears.


1963 New York Giants season, Regular season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1963 New York Jets season
The 1963 New York Jets season was the fourth season for the team in the American Football League (AFL) and the first under the moniker Jets. The season began with the team trying to improve on their 5–9 record from 1962 under new head coach Weeb Ewbank. The Jets finished the season 5–8–1, while playing their final season of home games at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, before relocating to Shea Stadium in the borough of Queens the following season.


1963 New York Jets season
In rebranding itself as the Jets, the club abandoned its navy-blue and gold uniforms in favor of kelly green and white. The jerseys had opposite-colored sleeves with thick stripes on the shoulders and cuffs, above and below the TV numerals. The pants were white with two parallel green stripes on each side. The new helmets were white with a single green stripe down the center; the logo on each side was a silhouette of a jet airplane in green, with the word "JETS" in thick white sans-serif italics along the fuselage.


1963 New York Jets season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1963 New York Mets season
The 1963 New York Mets season was the second regular season for the Mets. They went 51–111 and finished 10th in the NL, 48 games behind the World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. They were managed by Casey Stengel. They played their home games at the Polo Grounds, the second and final season there for the Mets before moving to Shea Stadium the following season.


1963 New York Mets season, Regular season
On June 14, Duke Snider of the Mets hit his 400th home run against the Cincinnati Reds. The opposing pitcher was Bob Purkey. The homer came in the 6,783rd at bat of his career. Snider became the ninth player to reach 400 homers. Along with Eddie Mathews, Snider became part of the first duo to reach the 400-plateau in the same season. Afterwards, Mets outfielder Jimmy Piersall told Snider that he could get more publicity for his 100th home run. Nine days later, on June 23, Piersall ran the bases backward after hitting the 100th home run of his career off Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Dallas Green. He was released by the Mets one month later, with that home run being the only one he hit in a Mets uniform.


1963 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1963 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1963 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 New York Yankees season
The 1963 New York Yankees season was the 61st season for the team in New York, and its 63rd season overall. The team finished with a record of 104–57, winning their 28th pennant, finishing 10½ games ahead of the Chicago White Sox. New York was managed by Ralph Houk.


1963 New York Yankees season
The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they were defeated by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 4 games, the first time the Yankees had ever been swept in the World Series (they had lost 4 games to none with one tied game in 1922).


1963 New York Yankees season, Regular season
Elston Howard became the first black player in the history of the American League to win the AL Most Valuable Player award.


1963 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1963 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1963 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 New York Yankees season, 1963 World Series
NL Los Angeles Dodgers (4) vs. AL New York Yankees (0)


1963 New York state election
The 1963 New York state election was held on November 5, 1963, to elect a judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Besides, an amendment to the State Constitution proposed to allow off-track betting and was accepted.


1963 New York state election, Background
Judge Sydney F. Foster would reach the constitutional age limit of 70 years at the end of the year.


1963 New York state election, Nominations
Both Democratic and the Republican state committees met on September 9, and nominated Democrat Francis Bergan, the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division (Third Dept. ), to succeed Foster.


1963 New York state election, Nominations
The Liberal State Committee met on September 10, and endorsed the Democratic/Republican nominee.


1963 New Zealand Grand Prix
The 1963 New Zealand Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 5 January 1963.


1963 New Zealand Grand Prix
This was the first time the New Zealand Grand Prix was ever held outside of the Ardmore Circuit since 1950 and would continue to be the venue until 1973.


1963 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
The 1963 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election was held on 26 February to choose the sixth leader of the New Zealand Labour Party. The election was won by Island Bay MP Arnold Nordmeyer.


1963 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election
This is the first time that a new leader had been elected which wasn't triggered by the death of the previous leader.


1963 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Background
Leader Walter Nash had led Labour since 1951 and after his government's defeat in 1960 he defied expectations by not announcing his intention to retire from the leadership. Pressure within the Labour Party membership built up for a leadership change, though Nash was reluctant to stand down and was determined not be succeeded by Nordmeyer. His preferred successor, Jerry Skinner, died in April 1962 though Nash decided still to remain leader for the 1963 election with Fred Hackett elected as his new deputy.


1963 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Background
However, in December 1962 party president Martyn Finlay (who had a strained relationship with Nash) wrote a letter to the caucus recommending a change in leadership, though was careful enough not to specifically suggest a successor. Following this, Nash finally announced his resignation and Hackett was known to be terminally ill. Both of Nash's deputy leaders were unable to succeed him and other potential leadership contenders Michael Moohan, Norman Kirk and Hugh Watt ruled themselves out.


1963 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Candidates, Arnold Nordmeyer
Arnold Nordmeyer had been a contender for the leadership for many years prior. By 1963 his only convincing rival, Jerry Skinner, had died in April 1962 and Fred Hackett, another contender, had died in early 1963.


1963 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Result
As Nordmeyer was the only officially nominated candidate, he was universally elected as leader. Nash remained leader until 31 March and Nordmeyer took over his roles as party leader and Leader of the Opposition.


1963 New Zealand Labour Party leadership election, Aftermath
Nordmeyer would remain the Labour Party's leader until 1965 when he was ousted as leader by Norman Kirk. He led Labour to an election loss in 1963 where Labour's vote did increase though only equated to one extra seat. Deputy leader Hugh Watt remained in his position despite the leadership change.


1963 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours
The 1963 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours were appointments by Elizabeth II to the Royal Victorian Order, to mark her visit to New Zealand that year. During her visit, the Queen attended celebrations at Waitangi. The honours were announced on 11 and 18 February 1963.


1963 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1963 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours, Royal Victorian Order, Member, fourth class (MVO)
In 1984, Members of the Royal Victorian Order, fourth class, were redesignated as Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO).


1963 New Zealand bravery awards
The 1963 New Zealand bravery awards were announced via a special honours list dated 21 May 1963, and posthumously recognised two police officers killed in the line of duty with the award of the Queen's Police Medal for Gallantry. Further bravery awards were also included in that year's New Year and Queen's Birthday Honours.


1963 New Zealand general election
The 1963 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of New Zealand Parliament's 34th term. The results were almost identical to those of the previous election, and the governing National Party remained in office.


1963 New Zealand general election, Background
The 1960 election had been won by the National Party, beginning New Zealand's second period of National government. Keith Holyoake, who had briefly been Prime Minister at the end of the first period, returned to office. The elderly leader of the Labour Party, Walter Nash, had agreed to step down following his government's defeat, but disliked the prospect of being succeeded by his Minister of Finance, Arnold Nordmeyer. Nash instead backed first Jerry Skinner and then, after Skinner's death, Fred Hackett. In the end, however, Nordmeyer was victorious. Nordmeyer, however, was unpopular with the general public, being remembered with hostility for the tax hikes in his so-called 'Black Budget'. Labour struggled to overcome this negative perception of its leader, and was only partially successful.


1963 New Zealand general election, Background
There had been an unusually large number of by-elections during the term of the 33rd Parliament. None of these had resulted in any upsets, and there was no major indications from the population wanting a change. National held two seats Hurunui and Waitaki, but by reduced margins. The party organisation was also acutely aware that National's win in 1960 was mostly due to public mood against Labour, rather than endorsement of National, and put work in to improving their campaigning. Benefits were seen sooner than expected picking up swings (but not winning) against Labour in two by-elections in the two Labour held seats of Buller and Northern Maori.


1963 New Zealand general election, Background
Holyoake started his election campaign on 4 November, not even a month out from the election. Whilst television had just been introduced in New Zealand, the election campaign was a dull affair and, from 23 November, the Assassination of John F. Kennedy was the dominant topic in the media.


1963 New Zealand general election, Background, MPs retiring in 1963
Five National MPs and two Labour MPs intended to retire at the end of the 33rd Parliament.


1963 New Zealand general election, The election
The date for the main 1963 elections was 30 November. 1,345,836 people were registered to vote, and turnout was 89.6%. This turnout was around average for the time. The number of seats being contested was 80, a number which had been fixed since 1902.


1963 New Zealand general election, The election
The following new (or reconstituted) electorates were introduced in 1963: Manurewa, New Lynn, Pakuranga, Porirua, Rangiora, Taupo and Waimarino.


1963 New Zealand general election, Results
The 1963 election saw the governing National Party retain office by a ten-seat margin. It had previously held office by a twelve-seat margin. National won a total of forty-five seats, while the Labour Party won thirty-five. In the popular vote, National won 47.1% to Labour's 43.7%. The Social Credit Party won 7.9% of the vote, but no seats. Four of their candidates also missed the nomination deadline. One political analyst, Professor Robert Chapman, called it "the no change election".


1963 New Zealand general election, Results
Puti Tipene Watene was elected for Eastern Maori; he was a Mormon and was the first non-Ratana to win a Maori seat since 1938.


1963 New Zealand general election, Results, Votes summary
The table below shows the results of the 1963 general election:


1963 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1963 New Zealand rugby league season was the 56th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
New Zealand toured Australia, losing the series 1–2. The team was coached by Bill Telford and included Gary Phillips, Neville Denton, Roger Bailey, Graham Kennedy, Brian Reidy, Jim Bond, Bill Snowden, Brian Lee, Gary Blackler, Maunga Emery, Don Hammond, Ron Ackland, captain Mel Cooke, Jack Fagan, Ken McCracken, Sam Edwards and Jock Butterfield.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
South Africa also toured the country, being met by 40 protesters when they arrived in the country. They upset New Zealand 4–3 at Carlaw Park. However, the match was not granted Test match status as the South Africans had enlisted two Australian guest players due to their serious injury toll sustained on the Australian leg of the tour. The South Africans were assisted by Maurie Robertson while in New Zealand.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The South Africans had previously lost 12–8 to the South Island. The South Island included Pat White, Brian Langton, Jim Bond, Bob Irvine, Jim Fisher, Colin McMaster, Mita Mohi and Mel Cooke.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
They then defeated Wellington before losing 4–10 to Auckland. The Auckland team was a virtual B side as it did not include players in camp with the Kiwis. The team included Roy Christian, Doug Ellwood, captain Roger Tait, Paul Schultz and Graham Mattson.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The New South Wales Rugby League's Parramatta Eels toured Auckland. They first defeated Glenora 13-11 before losing to both Eastern United and Southern Districts 20–13, both at Carlaw Park.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
The New Zealand Schoolboy's side defeated their New South Wales counterparts 6–3 at the Show Grounds.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions
Graham Kennedy won the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year award.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Northern Union Cup
Canterbury held the Northern Union Cup at the end of the season, after they had defeated the West Coast 38–9 in Christchurch. Canterbury then successfully defended the trophy three times, drawing 10-all with Auckland at the Epsom Show Grounds, defeating Waikato 15–0 at Davies Park in Huntly and the West Coast 7–5 at Wingham Park in Greymouth.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
Auckland were coached by Bruce Robertson and included Ron Ackland, Ken McCracken and Reg Cooke.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition
Canterbury included Brian Langton, John Bray, Pat White, Mita Mohi, captain Mel Cooke, John Walshe, Bob Irvine, Jim Fisher, Gary Blackler, Ian Drayton and Jim Bond.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, National Club competition
Southern Districts (Auckland) won the Rothmans tournament, defeating Linwood (Canterbury) 15–2 in the final. Southern had defeated Te Mahoe (Bay of Plenty) 53–4, Ngaruawahia (Waikato) 26-9 and Waitara (Taranaki) 53–17.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Eastern United won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy, Roope Rooster and Stormont Shield. Southern Districts won the Rukutai Shield. Eastern United defeated Southern Districts 8–0 in the Fox Memorial final.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
This was the last year of the Auckland Rugby League's "district scheme", as the clubs voted to abandon it the following season.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Roger Tait and Graham Mattson played for Glenora while Ron Ackland, Reg Cooke, Doug Ellwood, Ken McCracken and Ray Sinel played for Eastern United. Ken George, Ernie Wiggs and Roy Christian played for Southern Districts.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Wellington
Korodale and Marist shared the Wellington Rugby League's Appleton Shield.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Wellington
Wellington Marist and Christchurch Marist played against each other on 13 April in Wellington. The match was the first live rugby league telecast in the country.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
A match was played in Kaikoura between Shirley and Papanui during the season.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Mel Cooke was Hornby's captain-coach while Linwood included Lory Blanchard, who retired and became a selector in 1964.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
Jock Butterfield was the captain-coach of Brunner in the West Coast Rugby League competition. Brunner won the championship that year.


1963 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
Linwood defeated Brunner 10–6 to win the Thacker Shield for Canterbury for the first time since 1956.


1963 Nicaraguan general election
General elections were held in Nicaragua on February 3, 1963 to elect a president and National Congress.


1963 Nicaraguan general election
“Evidence of massive impending fraud caused the Traditional Conservative Party to abandon its loyalist stance of the previous decade and to boycott the 1963 elections, thereby raising the party’s credibility among the public at large”.


1963 Nicaraguan general election
“The elections were held in an atmosphere of overwhelming apathy, and the official returns, which in some areas showed more voters than the total adult population, gave Schick a victory margin of better than ten to one”. “Both the OAS and the U.S. embassy served as observers, although embassy officials later admitted that the accuracy of the preliminary and final vote count ‘will never be known”.


1963 Night Series Cup
The 1963 VFL Night Premiership Cup was the Victorian Football League end of season cup competition played in September and October of the 1963 VFL Premiership Season. Run as a knock-out tournament, it was contested by the eight VFL teams that failed to make the 1963 VFL finals series. It was the eighth VFL Night Series competition. Games were played at the Lake Oval, Albert Park, then the home ground of South Melbourne, as it was the only ground equipped to host night games. Footscray won its first night series cup defeating Richmond in the final by 6 points.


1963 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 1963 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the fourteenth season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).


1963 Nordic Athletics Championships
The 1963 Nordic Athletics Championships was the second edition of the international athletics competition between Nordic countries and was held in Gothenburg, Sweden. It consisted of 34 individual athletics events, 22 for men and 12 for women. This covered a track and field programme plus a men's marathon race.


1963 Nordic Athletics Championships
Finland defended its team title in the men's points classification with 225.5 points and Sweden repeated as women's team champions with 104 points. Iceland took part in the men's competition only and was the only nation not to have an athlete top the podium. Among the athletes in attendance were 1962 European Athletics Championships medalists Pentti Nikula, Stig Pettersson, Rainer Stenius and Pentti Eskola.


1963 Nordic Athletics Championships
Ulla-Britt Wieslander of Sweden was the most successful athlete of the tournament, defending both her 100 metres and 200 metres titles as well as adding the 80 metres hurdles championship to her honours. Bengt-Göran Fernström was the only man to win two individual titles, taking the 200 m and 400 metres races. Athletes to successfully defend their 1961 titles were Carl Fredrik Bunæs (100 m), Stig Pettersson (high jump), Stein Haugen (discus), Birger Asplund (hammer), Karen Inge Halkier (shot put) and Nina Hansen (pentathlon).


1963 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
The 1963 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. The Tar Heels were led by fifth-year head coach Jim Hickey and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing as co-champions with a league record of 6–1.


1963 North Carolina Tar Heels football team
Bob Lacey led the ACC in receiving with 48 catches for 533 yards. He was selected as a first-team All-American by the Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America and NEA.


1963 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team
The 1963 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team, also known as the Nodaks, was an American football team that represented the University of North Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. In its seventh year under head coach Marvin C. Helling, the team compiled a 6–3 record (4–2 against NCC opponents), tied for second place out of seven teams in the NCC, and outscored opponents by a total of 162 to 61. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Grand Forks, North Dakota.


1963 North Dakota State Bison football team
The 1963 North Dakota State Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. In its first season under head coach Darrell Mudra, the team compiled a 3–5 record (3–3 against NCC opponents) and finished in fourth place out of seven teams in the NCC. The team played its home games at Dacotah Field in Fargo, North Dakota.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season had no bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December, with peaks in May and November. The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean—the Bay of Bengal to the east of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea to the west of India.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center releases unofficial advisories. An average of four to six storms form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November. Cyclones occurring between the meridians 45°E and 100°E are included in the season by the IMD.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Two
On May 19, a tropical disturbance formed over the Laccadive Islands, before tracking northwest towards the Arabian peninsula. The system achieved cyclone intensity on May 22. On May 24, a United States Weather Bureau reconnaissance aircraft flew into the 19 km (12 mi) eye of the storm, encountering winds of 193 km/h (120 mph). A ship 111 kilometres (69 mi) west of the system reported winds of 68 knots (126 km/h). At Salalah, a strong northerly wind set in during the morning of May 25.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Two
Later in the day, winds increased to gale force and a sandstorm reduced visibility to 400 metres (1,300 ft). Later in the day of May 26 winds again increased to gale force and another sandstorm reduced visibility to 500 metres (1,600 ft). As winds increased to 60 knots (110 km/h) the sandstorm became more severe, with visibility restricted to 50 metres (160 ft). Late on the night of the 26th, winds shifted to northeast and heavy rains fell across the region through the morning hours. Skies remained cloudy with periods of rain into May 28. A total of 230 millimetres (9.1 in) was recorded at Salalah.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Super Cyclonic Storm Three
One of the strongest cyclones ever recorded in the Northern Indian Ocean. Had the lowest known pressure in the basin until it was surpassed by the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone. Killed 11,520 people in East Pakistan.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Four
Produced torrential rains over parts of eastern India, peaking at 910 mm (36 in) in Cherrapunji.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Eight
Heavy rains from the storm triggered severe flooding that killed at least 200 people.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Nine
At least 15 people were killed by flooding triggered by the depression in Orissa.


1963 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Twelve
Significant damage and flooding took place in India, with some loss of life reported.


1963 North Korean local elections
Elections to provincial, city, county, district, town, neighborhood, village and workers' district people's assemblies were held in North Korea on December 3, 1963.


1963 North Korean local elections
In the elections, 2,517 provincial people's assembly deputies, 14,303 city, county and district people's assembly deputies and 70,250 town, neighborhood, village and workers' district people's assembly deputies were elected.


1963 North Korean local elections
Voter turnout was reported to be 100%, with candidates allegedly receiving a 100% approval rate.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election
The 1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election was an indirect election held to elect the Governor of North Sumatra for the 1963–1968 term. All members of the Regional People's Representative Council of North Sumatra were eligible to vote for this election.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Background
Following the resignation of Raja Junjungan Lubis as the Governor of North Sumatra, Eny Karim was appointed by the Minister of Internal Affairs as the acting governor of North Sumatra. His main task was to held the elections for a new governor.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Candidates
There were several names were nominated for the candidate of the election, but only two names managed to become the candidate in the election. The first candidate, Abdul Munir Hamid, was supported by almost all of the political parties in the council, except the Indonesian Communist Party. Hamid a manager of several provincial owned companies, such as the Dirga Surya Hotel and the Puri Kayangan public company, which produces cooking oil and washing soap. Meanwhile, the second candidate, Ulung Sitepu, was supported by the Indonesian Communist Party. Sitepu was a military officer who served as the former chief of staff of the Bukit Barisan Military Regional Command.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Inauguration
Although Abdul Munir Hamid won the election, the Minister of Internal Affairs inaugurated Ulung Sitepu instead. Sitepu was inaugurated as the Governor of North Sumatra on 15 July 1963.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Reaction
The inauguration of Ulung Sitepu as the Governor of North Sumatra was protested by the supporters of Abdul Munir Hamid. Afterwards, clashes occurred between the supporters of Hamid and Sitepu.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Trial of Hamid
The conflict between Sitepu and Hamid lasted long after the election. Sitepu accused Hamid of corruption, and the communist masses — the main support base for Sitepu — demanded Hamid to be tried at the court. The chairman of the Medan District Court, Marthias, rejected the accusation, citing the lack of evidence.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Trial of Hamid
According to Effendi Nasution, a staunch anti-communist, the communist masses launched another demonstration, demanding Marthias to be fired from his office and Hamid to be hanged. Marthias was later replaced by Palti Raja Siregar, who tried Hamid and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. Hamid appealed his case, and in 1966, his sentence was reduced to 7 years.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Trial of Hamid
Raja Maimunah, the wife of Hamid, recalled that during the trial of Hamid, the communist masses threatened to destroy Hamid's house and the district court building if Munir was not sentenced. Maimunah also stated that Hamid's house was regularly guarded by soldiers due to this threat.


1963 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, Aftermath, Trial of Hamid
An investigative team formed by the efforts of Hamid supporters began looking into the accusations. The team concluded that there was no corruption conducted by Hamid in the companies. Following the publication of the conclusions, Hamid appealed a review of his case to the Supreme Court of Indonesia in 1967, but his appeal was rejected. He appealed his case again on 16 March 1982, and the Supreme Court instructed the Medan District Court to investigate the issue on 13 August 1983. The district court stated that it could not investigate the issue due to the loss of documents relating to the case.


1963 Northeast Louisiana State Indians football team
The 1963 Northeast Louisiana State Indians football team was an American football team that represented Northeast Louisiana State College (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) in the Gulf States Conference during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. In their sixth year under head coach Jack C. Rowan, the team compiled a 4–6 record.


1963 Northeastern Huskies football team
The 1963 Northeastern Huskies football team represented Northeastern University during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. It was the program's 28th season and they finished with an overall record of 8–1. After an undefeated regular season in which Northeastern went 8–0 and outscored their opponents 237 to 42, they were invited to their first (and program's only) bowl game – the Eastern Bowl, played in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where the Huskies lost to East Carolina 27–6. Their head coach was Joe Zabilski and their captain was All-American Joe Davis.


1963 Northern Illinois Huskies football team
The 1963 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. The Huskies were undefeated during the season and won their first bowl game, the Mineral Water Bowl. The AP Poll declared Northern Illinois to be the NCAA College Division National Champions. However, the United Press International named Delaware the NCAA College Division National Champions.


1963 Northern Maori by-election
The Northern Maori by-election of 1963 was a by-election for the electorate of Northern Maori on 16 March 1963 during the 33rd New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the death of the previous member Tapihana Paikea on 7 January 1963.


1963 Northern Maori by-election
The by-election was won by Matiu Rata, also of the Labour Party. The by-election was contested by nine candidates, including James Henare who had stood for the National Party several times previously.


1963 Northern Maori by-election
The by-election was the closest National has come to winning a Maori seat since 1943, although National's Auckland division did not appreciate the opportunity with a Henare descendant and support from Ngati Whatua, and gave little money and backing to their candidate; for which they were later criticised by the "more astute" South Auckland and Wellington Division leaders. Henare still got the largest swing to National in a by-election in the party's history, with Labour having only a 447-vote majority compared with 3,372 at the previous general election. And over the next 20 years, National's vote in the four Maori seats shrunk to about ten percent, similar to the Social Credit vote.


1963 Northern Mariana Islands integration referendum
An unofficial referendum on integration with Guam was held in the Northern Mariana Islands on 27 October 1963. Although the proposal was approved by voters, the islands were not integrated.


1963 Northern Mariana Islands integration referendum, Background
Previous referendums in 1958 and 1961 had been in favor of integration. Both the Guam Legislature and Saipan Congress had passed resolutions requesting reunification. The 1963 referendum was organized by the local Parliament as members wanted the islands to integrate with Guam, and was timed to coincide with the 1964 visit of a United Nations commission looking at the status of the UN Trust Territories.


1963 Northern Mariana Islands integration referendum, Aftermath
The results were presented to the mission, with the mission's report responding that secession from a UN Trust Territory was not possible "and should be regarded as firmly settled".


1963 Northwestern Wildcats football team
The 1963 Northwestern Wildcats team was an American football team that represented Northwestern University during the 1963 Big Ten Conference football season. In their eighth year under head coach Ara Parseghian, the Wildcats compiled a 5–4 record (3–4 against conference opponents) and finished in a tie for fifth place in the Big Ten Conference.


1963 Northwestern Wildcats football team
The team's offensive leaders were quarterback Tom Myers with 1,398 passing yards, Willie Stinson with 368 rushing yards, and Gary Crum with 417 receiving yards.


1963 Norwegian Football Cup
The 1963 Norwegian Football Cup was the first all-Norwegian cup, as it was the first year clubs from Northern Norway were allowed to participate in the cup. Of the two northern Norwegian teams that participated this year, Bodø/Glimt made it all the way to the fourth round.


1963 Norwegian Football Cup
The surprise team of the cup this year was Sagene, a team that made it to the quarter final, despite playing in the third division (tier three).


1963 Norwegian Football Cup
Skeid won the cup, beating Fredrikstad 2-1 in the final.


1963 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 1963 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season.


1963 Nova Scotia general election
The 1963 Nova Scotia general election was held on 8 October 1963 to elect members of the 48th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservatives.


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1963 Oakland Raiders season
The 1963 Oakland Raiders season was the team's fourth in Oakland. The campaign saw the team attempt to improve upon its abysmal 1962 record of 1–13.


1963 Oakland Raiders season
In his first year with the organization, Raiders legend Al Davis, formerly a receivers coach with the San Diego Chargers, replaced the team's original gold and black uniforms with the current "silver and black" scheme. Under his leadership as head coach and general manager, the Raiders stunned the rest of the AFL by winning ten games. They finished with a record of 10–4, which was good for second place in the Western Division, one game behind the eventual AFL champion Chargers, whom they had defeated twice. The Raiders swept the Western division in 1963, winning all six games. For his role in the Raiders' miraculous turnaround, Al Davis was named the AFL's "Coach of the Year".


1963 Oakland Raiders season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1963 October Revolution Parade
The 1963 October Revolution Parade was a parade on Red Square in Moscow on November 7 1963 for the 46th anniversary of the October Revolution. Inspecting the parade was Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky and commanding the parade was the commander of the Moscow Military District, Afanasy Beloborodov. The massed bands of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union led by Major General Nikolai Nazarov was playing the military marches. The parade officially began at the chimes of the Kremlin Clock at 10:00. It has one of the earliest records of the full parade.


1963 Ohio Bobcats football team
The 1963 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their sixth season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats won the MAC championship, compiled a 6–4 record (5–1 against MAC opponents), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 135 to 103.


1963 Ohio Bobcats football team
The team's statistical leaders included Jim Albert with 707 rushing yards, Wes Danyo with 635 passing yards, and Jim Albert with 186 receiving yards. Jim Albert also set a school record with a 95-yard interception return against Western Michigan.


1963 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1963 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1963 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 5–3–1 record.


1963 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Draft picks
† Pro Bowl Selection ‡ Member of the NFL Hall of Fame


1963 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1963 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. They played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and competed as members of the Big Eight Conference. They were coached by head coach Bud Wilkinson, who would retire from coaching after the conclusion of the season.


1963 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft
The following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.


1963 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team
The 1963 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season.


1963 Old Dominion 500
The 1963 Old Dominion 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on September 22, 1963, at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia.


1963 Old Dominion 500, Background
Martinsville Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races. The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn short track oval that is 0.526 miles (0.847 km) long. The track's turns are banked at eleven degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at zero degrees. The back stretch also has a zero degree banking.


1963 Old Dominion 500, Race report
The race was scheduled for 500 laps; taking three hours and forty-two minutes to complete. Fred Lorenzen defeated Marvin Panch by a single lap and two seconds. Twenty thousand people came to witness three lead changes and five cautions for eighteen laps. Junior Johnson won the pole position for this race; driving speeds up to 73.379 miles per hour (118.092 km/h) in qualifying. Speeds during the actual race managed to reach up to 67.486 miles per hour (108.608 km/h).


1963 Old Dominion 500, Race report
Jimmy Massey became the last-place finisher after having to drop out prior to the race due to a terminal crash with Jimmy Pardue. Jack Anderson pulled out of the race on lap 13 after dealing with a faulty head gasket in his vehicle. An oil leak would take Bobby Keck out of the action on lap 26. A faulty vehicle bearing forced Perk Brown out of the race on lap 43. Problems with the vehicles' brakes would force Major Melton and Fred Harb to retire from the race.


1963 Old Dominion 500, Race report
Perk Brown and Major Melton would end their NASCAR Grand National Series careers after the conclusion of this race.


1963 Old Dominion 500, Race report
Most of the car owners that were involved in the race were independents and had no affiliation with a multi-car team. This race still holds the record for the fewest leaders in a NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville along with the 1961 Old Dominion 500, the 1965 Old Dominion 500 and the 1976 Old Dominion 500. Individual winnings for this race were as low as $100 ($835 when adjusted for inflation) and as high as $3,800 ($31,734 when adjusted for inflation).


1963 Old Dominion 500, Race report
At least nine notable crew chiefs attended this race; including Ray Fox, Herman Beam, Glen Wood and Herb Nab.


1963 Old Dominion 500, Race report
The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.


1963 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1963 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. The Rebels were led by 17th-year head coach Johnny Vaught and played their home games at Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi. Ole Miss were champions of the Southeastern Conference, finishing the regular season with a record of 7–0–2 (5–0–1 SEC) and ranked 7th in the final AP Poll. They were invited to the 1964 Sugar Bowl, where they lost to fellow SEC member Alabama.


1963 Ole Miss Rebels football team
Entering the 2021 season, this is Ole Miss' most recent conference championship.


1963 Omloop Het Volk
The 1963 Omloop Het Volk was the 18th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 2 March 1963. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by René Van Meenen.


1963 Ontario general election
The 1963 Ontario general election was held on September 25, 1963, to elect the 108 members of the 27th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario.


1963 Ontario general election
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by John Robarts, who had replaced Leslie Frost as PC leader and premier in 1961, won a seventh consecutive term in office, and maintained its majority in the legislature, increasing its caucus from the 71 members elected in the previous election to 77 members in an enlarged legislature.


1963 Ontario general election
The Ontario Liberal Party, led by John Wintermeyer, increased its caucus from 22 to 24 members, although Wintermeyer lost his seat of Waterloo North. He resigned as party leader but the Liberals continued in their role of official opposition. Robert Gibson of Kenora was re-elected as a Liberal-Labour MPP sitting with the Liberal caucus.


1963 Ontario general election
The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was formally dissolved and succeeded by the Ontario New Democratic Party in 1961. The newly conglomerated party was still led by Donald C. MacDonald, and won two additional seats, for a total of seven.


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1963 Open Championship
The 1963 Open Championship was the 92nd Open Championship, held from 10–13 July at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, England.


1963 Open Championship
Bob Charles won his only major championship in a 36-hole playoff on Saturday, eight strokes ahead of runner-up Phil Rodgers, and became the first left-hander to win a major title. Masters winner Jack Nicklaus bogeyed the last two holes and came in third, one stroke out of the playoff. A heavy favourite among the local bettors, two-time defending champion Arnold Palmer tied for 26th. U.S. Open champion Julius Boros did not play.


1963 Open Championship
This was the last 36-hole playoff at The Open, the format was changed to 18 holes the following year, used in 1970 and 1975. The four-hole aggregate format was introduced in 1986 and first used in 1989.


1963 Open Championship
The PGA Championship was played the next week in Texas at Dallas, one of five times in the 1960s that these two majors were played in consecutive weeks in July. In epic heat, 23-year-old Nicklaus regrouped and won by two strokes for his third major title.


1963 Open Championship, Course layout
Source:Previous lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):


1963 Open Championship, Field
For the first time, leading players were exempt from qualifying. 44 players who entered were exempted:


1963 Open Championship, Field
Peter Alliss, Brian Bamford, Michael Bonallack (a), Fred Boobyer, Ken Bousfield, Eric Brown, Peter Butler, Joe Carr (a), Billy Casper, Bob Charles, Neil Coles, Roger Foreman, Jean Garaïalde, Christy Greene, Tom Haliburton, Jimmy Hitchcock, Brian Huggett, Bernard Hunt, Denis Hutchinson, John Jacobs, Bobby Locke, Jimmy Martin, Cary Middlecoff, Sebastián Miguel, Ralph Moffitt, Kel Nagle, Jack Nicklaus, Christy O'Connor Snr, Arnold Palmer, John Panton, Lionel Platts, Gary Player, Dai Rees, Phil Rodgers, Sandy Saddler (a), Doug Sanders, Syd Scott, Doug Sewell, Dave Thomas, Peter Thomson, Harry Weetman, Ross Whitehead, Brian Wilkes, Guy Wolstenholme


1963 Open Championship, Field
1. The first 20 and those tying for 20th place in the 1962 OpenPeter Alliss, Bob Charles, Roger Foreman, Jean Garaïalde, Brian Huggett, Bernard Hunt, Denis Hutchinson, Jimmy Martin, Sebastian Miguel, Ralph Moffitt, Kel Nagle (3), Christy O'Connor Snr, Arnold Palmer (3,6), John Panton, Phil Rodgers, Syd Scott, Dave Thomas, Peter Thomson (3), Harry Weetman, Ross Whitehead


1963 Open Championship, Field
2. The first 30 and those tying for 30th place in the P.G.A. Order of Merit for 1962


1963 Open Championship, Field
3. The last 10 Open champions (1953–62)Bobby Locke, Gary Player


1963 Open Championship, Field
4. The last 5 Amateur champions (1958–62)Michael Bonallack (5) (a), Joe Carr (a)


1963 Open Championship, Field
5. Members of the 1962 British Eisenhower Cup teamSandy Saddler (a)


1963 Open Championship, Field
8. The first 30 money winners and those tying for 30th place in the U.S.P.G.A. official list for one year ending with the P.G.A. tournament immediately before the closing date of the U.S. Open entries


1963 Open Championship, Field
Exemptions for amateur champions were only granted if the player was still an amateur.


1963 Open Championship, Field
Qualification took place on 4–5 July (Thursday and Friday) at Fairhaven and St Annes Old Links. They were run as two separate events with 39 players to qualify from each venue to make a total field of 120. At each venue 34 players qualified on 147 and 6 players had a sudden-death playoff for the remaining five places. Max Faulkner, the 1951 Champion, was one of those who qualified in the playoff at Fairhaven. Bruce Devlin and Bill Large led the qualifying events. Three alternates were decided from each qualifying event.


1963 Open Championship, Prize money
The total prize money remained unchanged at £8,500 but the distribution was changed. The winner's prize was increased to £1,500 with £1,000 for second, £800 for third, £650 for fourth, £500 for fifth, £350 for sixth, £275 for seventh, £225 for eighth, £175 for ninth, £150 for tenth, £140 for 11th, £135 for 12th, £130 for 13th, £125 for 14th, £120 for 15th, £110 for 16th reducing at £5 intervals to £65 for 25th. The 26th to 30th places each received £60 with £55 for 31st to 35th, £50 for 36th to 40th and £45 for 41st to 45th.


1963 Open Championship, Prize money
If more than 45 players made the cut the 41st to 45th prize money was distributed between all those  finishing 41st or lower. If less than 45 made the cut the remaining prize money was not distributed. The winner of each qualifying event won £75 with £50 for second and £25 for third place.


1963 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round
The cut rule was changed this year to a minimum of 45 players; it was previously a maximum of 50. The cut was 149 (+9) and 47 players advanced, but no amateurs.


1963 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round
Source:Amateurs: Hood (+12), Saddler (+12), Carr (+15), Neech (+16), Rutherford (+16), Bonallack (+19), Bowman (+19), Stockdale (+20)


1963 Open Championship, Round summaries, Playoff
Charles won the 36-hole playoff by eight strokes; he led by three after the first round.


1963 Orange Bowl
The 1963 Orange Bowl   was the 29th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, January 1. Part of the 1962–63 bowl game season, it matched the fifth-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference and the #8 Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference. With President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in attendance, Alabama shut out the Sooners 17–0.


1963 Orange Bowl, Game summary
Alabama's Richard Williamson scored in the first quarter on 25-yard touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Joe Namath to take a 7–0 lead. A 15-yard Cotton Clark touchdown run in the second quarter extended the lead to 14–0.


1963 Orange Bowl, Game summary
In the third quarter, Alabama scored their final points after Tim Davis hit a 19-yard field goal. Lee Roy Jordan recorded an Alabama bowl record of 31 tackles in the victory. The fourth quarter was scoreless.


1963 Oregon State Beavers football team
The 1963 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University as an independent during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. In their ninth season under head coach Tommy Prothro, the Beavers compiled a 5–5 record and were outscored 198 to 192. The team played two home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, and two at Multnomah Stadium in Portland.


1963 Oregon Webfoots football team
The 1963 Oregon Webfoots represented the University of Oregon in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. The Webfoots were an independent and outscored their opponents 274 to 153. Led by thirteenth-year head coach Len Casanova, the Ducks were 7–3 in the regular season and won the Sun Bowl over SMU on New Year's Eve. Three home games were played on campus at Hayward Field in Eugene and three at Multnomah Stadium in Portland.


1963 Oregon Webfoots football team
Notable players included Mel Renfro, Dave Wilcox, H.D. Murphy, and Bob Berry, all selected in the 1964 NFL Draft. Berry was a redshirt junior and played another season for Oregon in 1964. Renfro and Wilcox are members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Murphy was selected late and never played in the NFL; he played in the up-and-coming Continental Football League.


1963 Oregon Webfoots football team
Following the disbandment of the Pacific Coast Conference, both Oregon and Oregon State were independent in football for five seasons, from 1959 through 1963. Both joined the AAWU (Pac-8) for the 1964 season. The Pac-8 had bowl restrictions (Rose Bowl only) until 1975; the Ducks' next postseason appearance was at the 1989 Independence Bowl.


1963 Oregon Webfoots football team, NFL Draft
Four Oregon players were selected in the 1964 NFL Draft, which went twenty rounds (280 selections).


1963 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)
1963 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) was the 57th water polo championship in Hungary. There were ten teams who played two-round match for the title.


1963 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1963 Otahuhu by-election
The Otahuhu by-election 1963 was a by-election held in the Otahuhu electorate in Auckland during the term of the 33rd New Zealand Parliament, on 16 March 1963.


1963 Otahuhu by-election, Background
The by-election was caused by the death of incumbent MP James Deas of the Labour Party on 27 January 1963. It was held the same day as the Northern Maori by-election.


1963 Otahuhu by-election, Candidates, Communist
The Communist Party chose trade unionist Stan Hieatt, who contested the Otahuhu seat in 1960, as their candidate once again.


1963 Otahuhu by-election, Candidates, Labour
As the Otahuhu electorate was scheduled for abolition at the end of the parliamentary session so the selection for the by-election candidate was also set to choose the candidate for the to be created Pakuranga electorate. The Labour Party chose the president of the Auckland Labour Representation Committee Bob Tizard, who had been MP for Tamaki from 1957 to 1960, as their candidate. Both party president Martyn Finlay and Colin Moyle (Labour's candidate for Hobson in 1957) were rumored to stand but both opted to stand in other electorates (Finlay in Waitakere and Moyle in Manukau) thus Tizard was selected unopposed.


1963 Otahuhu by-election, Candidates, National
The National Party chose Thomas Tucker a local taxation consultant, who contested Otahuhu in 1960, as their candidate. He won selection in preference to Lloyd Elsmore, the Mayor of Ellerslie, and Ray Presland, who stood for National in Auckland Central electorate in 1960.


1963 Otahuhu by-election, Candidates, Social Credit
The Social Credit Party decided not to contest the election. Party leader Vernon Cracknell said that the election was pointless and a misappropriation of taxpayer funds due to the seat being scheduled for abolition. "The byelection in Otahuhu, a seat which will be abolished in a few months' time, is unnecessary and a waste of public money" said Cracknell.


1963 Otahuhu by-election, Aftermath
The by-election was won by Bob Tizard who represented it from 16 March to 29 October only. When the electorate was abolished and replaced by the Pakuranga electorate at the 1963 election election, Tizard was elected for the Pakuranga seat instead. Tucker stood for National in Roskill, losing to Arthur Faulkner, while Hieatt stood unsuccessfully for the Onehunga seat.


1963 PGA Championship
The 1963 PGA Championship was the 45th PGA Championship, played July 18–21 at the Blue Course of Dallas Athletic Club in Dallas, Texas. Jack Nicklaus won the first of his five PGA Championship titles, two strokes ahead of runner-up Dave Ragan. It was the second major win of the year for Nicklaus, and the third of his eighteen major titles.


1963 PGA Championship
Nicklaus entered the final round in third place, three shots behind 54-hole leader Bruce Crampton. He shot a three-under 68 while Crampton fell back to third with 74 (+3) in the Texas heat, with temperatures over 100 °F (38 °C). At the trophy presentation in the bright sunshine, Nicklaus grasped the very hot Wanamaker Trophy with the aid of a towel. The temperature in downtown Dallas on Sunday reached a high of 110 °F (43 °C).


1963 PGA Championship
With the victory, Nicklaus at age 23 joined Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson, and Ben Hogan as the only winners of all three American majors: the Masters, U.S. Open and PGA Championship. Nicklaus completed the first of his three career grand slams three years later at Muirfield in 1966.


1963 PGA Championship
The Open Championship was played the previous week in northwest England at Lytham St Annes, one of five times in the 1960s that these two majors were played in consecutive weeks in July. Nicklaus bogeyed the last two holes at Lytham and finished a stroke out of the 36-hole Saturday playoff, won by Bob Charles. The PGA Championship moved permanently to August in 1969 (except 1971, when it was played in late February to avoid Florida's summer). After cool temperatures in Britain, the oppressive July heat in Dallas was difficult for many to adjust to.


1963 PGA Championship
Nicklaus won the Masters in April, the first of his six green jackets, marking only the third time that the Masters champion won the PGA Championship in the same calendar year. He was preceded by Sam Snead in 1949 (May) and Jack Burke Jr. in 1956. Through 2016, it has been accomplished only four times, twice by Nicklaus, and most recently 46 years ago in August 1975.


1963 PGA Championship
On Wednesday, Nicklaus set a record in the long drive contest at over 341 yards (312 m); breaking the record set in 1952 by twelve yards (11 m).


1963 PGA Tour
The 1963 PGA Tour season was played from January 4 to November 24. The season consisted of 44 official money events. Arnold Palmer won the most tournaments, seven, and there were seven first-time winners. Palmer was the leading money winner with earnings of $128,230. Julius Boros was voted the PGA Player of the Year and Billy Casper won the Vardon Trophy for the lowest scoring average.


1963 PGA Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1963 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.


1963 Pacific Tigers football team
The 1963 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season.


1963 Pacific Tigers football team
Pacific competed as an independent in 1963. They played home games in Pacific Memorial Stadium in Stockton, California. In their third (and last) season under head coach John Rohde, the Tigers finished with a record of two wins and eight losses (2–8). This was the worst record for the Tigers since they were winless in the last year of World War II (1945). For the 1963 season they were outscored by their opponents 99–275.


1963 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the AFL/NFL
The following University of the Pacific players were selected in the 1964 NFL Draft.


1963 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the AFL/NFL
The following University of the Pacific players were selected in the 1964 AFL Draft.


1963 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the AFL/NFL
The following finished their college career at Pacific, were not drafted, but played in the AFL starting with the 1964 season.


1963 Pacific hurricane season
The 1963 Pacific hurricane season was a below-average season, with 8 storms and 4 hurricanes forming. The season ran through the summer and fall of 1963.


1963 Pacific hurricane season
The strongest of these storms were Glenda and Mona, which both had 85 mph (135 km/h) winds. The first storm, Emily, made landfall near Manzanillo, Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane. The next hurricanes, Florence and Glenda, stayed far away from land. Jennifer-Katherine made landfall on Baja California as a tropical depression on September 18. Tropical Storm Irah affected Hawaii as a tropical depression. An unnamed tropical storm curved round Hawaii from 2–8 August. Lillian became post-tropical shortly before making landfall on September 29 with winds of 50 mph. Mona, the final storm of the season made landfall around about the same area as Lillian did with winds of 85 mph.


1963 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Emily
Hurricane Emily formed on June 29, while moving west. It then turned to the north and dissipated over the mountainous regions of Mexico.


1963 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence followed a nearly-due west track, as it persisted to move away from land, and eventually weakened and dissipated without any effects on a landmass.


1963 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Four
Tropical Storm Four stayed over the ocean. Several vessels encountered gale-force winds in this storm from the 8th through the 10th as it proceeded northward across the shipping lanes. On August 12, the remnants of the cyclone dissipated near 50N 165W.


1963 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Jennifer–Katherine
Tropical Storm Jennifer–Katherine moved through the Eastern Pacific in mid-September. It moved northward, and hit Baja California on September 18, bringing heavy rain to Southern California. A total of 6.5 inches (165 mm) fell in the mountains of southern California from the storm. The storm had two names operationally because the NHC had assumed that Jennifer dissipated and that Katherine was a new storm, but reanalysis revealed that it was one storm.


1963 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Irah
Irah peaked at a tropical storm and made a direct hit on Hawaii as a tropical depression.


1963 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Lillian
Tropical Storm Lillian paralleled the Mexican coast. It was originally moving to the north-west, but turned to the west-northeast on September 28, before making landfall on Western Mexico as a tropical storm.


1963 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names
The following names were used for named storms that formed in the eastern Pacific in 1963. No names were retired from this list. This is a part of list 2, which was used from 1960–1965. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray.


1963 Pacific typhoon season
The 1963 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1963, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.


1963 Pacific typhoon season
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1963 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the "W" suffix added to their number.


1963 Pacific typhoon season
Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names. This was the first season in which PAGASA assigned local names to typhoons.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems
36 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 25 became tropical storms. 19 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 8 reached super typhoon strength.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 03W
A brief tropical depression developed north of Papua New Guinea at 00:00 UTC on March 25, and tracked west-northwest before it dissipated later that day. Although the Joint Typhoon Warning Center does not list any maximum sustained wind values in its tracking data, the Mariners Weather Log notes that Tropical Depression 03W briefly attained winds of 55 km/h (35 mph) at its peak before dissipating.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, CMA Tropical Depression 1
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) analyzed the formation of a disturbance near Micronesia on March 30, though no other agencies monitored the system. Tracking westward, the low-pressure area developed further into a tropical depression the following day. The storm turned towards the north on April 1, reaching peak intensity two days later with winds of 55 km/h and a minimum pressure of 1001 mbar (hPa; 29.56 inHg) before slowly weakening. On April 6, the depression degenerated into a remnant area of low pressure; these remnants tracked westward before dissipating early the next day.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olive
The low-pressure area that eventually developed into Typhoon Olive first formed approximately 155 km (95 mi) southeast of Truk on April 21, embedded within the larger context of a trough. In its nascent stages, the disturbance tracked slowly west-northwestward toward Woleai; the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) considers the storm to have developed into a tropical depression on April 26, though the JTWC began monitoring Olive as a 75 km/h (45 mph) tropical storm the day after. Olive quickly intensified following tropical cyclogenesis, becoming a typhoon by 12:00 UTC on April 27.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olive
Late on April 28, a reconnaissance mission sampled winds of 230 km/h (145 mph) and a minimum barometric pressure of 932 mbar (hPa; 27.52 inHg); from these parameters Olive reached peak intensity at 00:00 UTC on April 29 with a minimum pressure of 920 mbar as computed by the JMA. Olive passed near Guam and Saipan later that day, impacting the latter with winds of 205 km/h (125 mph). As the typhoon receded to more northerly latitudes, it slowly weakened, transitioning into an extratropical cyclone on May 5 before dissipating four days later; maintaining typhoon strength for 8.5 days, Olive remained a typhoon longer than any other storm in 1963.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olive
As Olive neared Guam, then-governor Manuel Guerrero ordered the evacuation of low-lying areas and the opening of shelters at schools, churches, and other locations. Olive caused considerable damage in the Mariana Islands: 95 percent of homes on Saipan sustained extensive damage, with another 5 percent destroyed by the storm. Homes were also damaged on nearby Rota, with the widespread loss of crops; property and agricultural losses were also accrued on Guam and Tinian, where power lines were downed by strong winds and 1,000 people were left homeless.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olive
The effects of the typhoon set back Guam's recovery from Typhoon Karen the previous year, damaging homes partially repaired via recovery loans for Karen. Estimated damage from Olive amounted to US$5 million. In the storm's aftermath, deputy high commissioner for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Jose Benitez requested the declaration of Tinian and Saipan as disaster areas. On April 30, then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy acknowledged Benitez's request and declared a disaster area for the impacted islands. Kennedy would later allocate US$1.3 million for storm relief in Saipan, Tinian, and Rota. Food and medical supplies were sent from the Caroline and Marshall Islands to the Mariana Islands.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Polly (Auring)
Polly originated from an area of low pressure first detected 145 km (90 mi) north-northwest of Woleai on May 25. The JMA determined that the disturbance developed into a tropical depression on May 27, though the JTWC initiated warnings on the system on May 31. The cyclone gradually strengthened after formation, reaching tropical storm strength on June 1 and typhoon intensity the day after.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Polly (Auring)
On June 3, Polly reached peak intensity with sustained winds of 130 km/h (80 mph) and a minimum pressure of 978 mbar (hPa; 28.88 inHg), after which it began to slowly taper off in strength and accelerate northeastward. On June 5, Polly passed 190 km (120 mi) southeast of Tokyo as a low-end typhoon before recurving towards the east-northeast. The extratropical remnants of Polly reached the Bering Sea and the coast of Alaska on June 10 before dissipating.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Polly (Auring)
Remaining offshore Japan, Polly's impacts were caused primarily by heavy rainfall. Flooding inundated caused 807 landslides and inundated over 36,000 homes. Another 11 houses and 270 bridges were washed away by the floods. Polly caused an estimated US$138 million in damage to crops, with the total damage figure in excess of US$143 million. Eighteen people were killed and another seventeen were injured; 20,702 others were homeless after Polly's passage.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Rose (Bebeng)
Tropical Storm Rose began as a tropical depression in the South China Sea on June 6, and tracked southeastward towards Luzon in its early stages. On June 8, the JTWC began issuing warnings on Rose as a tropical storm while the cyclone was just off Luzon's northwestern coast. Slow strengthening continued thereafter, with Rose's peaking as a 95 km/h (60 mph) tropical storm as it was tracking across the Ryukyu Islands, though the storm's strongest winds were contained within a narrow rainband near the center.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Rose (Bebeng)
Moving rapidly northeastward, Rose passed over western Honshu as a lower-end tropical storm on June 13, briefly emerging into the Sea of Japan before recurving eastward and transitioning into an extratropical cyclone over northern Honshu on June 14. The remnants of Rose merged with another weak extratropical low off the Japanese coast, and this combined system continued eastward before dissipating over the Bering Sea on June 18.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Bess
On July 27 Tropical Depression 20W formed in the West Pacific. It drifted northward, reaching tropical storm on the 30th before turning to the southwest. Bess turned to the north on August 2, and reached typhoon status early on the 3rd. Bess rapidly intensified to a peak of 150 mph on the 4th, but weakened as it continued northward. On the 9th it struck Japan, and on the 11th Bess became extratropical. At the time, Bess had the longest longevity of a Western Pacific tropical cyclone. Typhoon Bess caused severe damage on the island of Kyūshū. 23 people were killed and 6 were missing.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Gloria (Oniang)
Typhoon Gloria, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Oniang was a typhoon of the 1963 Pacific typhoon season. Gloria impacted Taiwan and China.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Gloria (Oniang)
Typhoon Gloria developed on September 5, over the open waters of the West Pacific. The storm rapidly intensified to a peak of 155 mph on September 9. It weakened as it continued west-northwestward, and made landfall on extreme northeastern Taiwan on September 11, as a 100 mph typhoon. The typhoon caused severe flooding in Northern Taiwan and killed hundreds of people. Gloria continued westward, and hit eastern China that night as an 85 mph typhoon. The storm looped over land to the northeast, and dissipated on September 13, to the east of China. Gloria killed 239 people, and left 89 missing.


1963 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 10 of which are published each year before the season starts. Names not retired from this list will be used again in the 1967 season. PAGASA uses its own naming scheme that starts in the Filipino alphabet, with names of Filipino female names ending with "ng" (A, B, K, D, etc.). This was the first season in which PAGASA assigned local names to typhoons. Names that were not assigned/going to use are marked in gray.


1963 Palanca Awards
The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in 1963 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author).


1963 Pan American Games
The fourth Pan American Games were held from April 20 to May 5, 1963, in São Paulo, Brazil.


1963 Pan American Games, Host city selection
For the first time, two cities submitted bids to host the 1963 Pan American Games that were recognized by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO). On August 25, 1959, São Paulo was selected over Winnipeg to host the IV Pan American Games by the PASO at the VII Pan American Sports Congress in Chicago, United States.


1963 Pan American Games, Medal count
The medal counts for the United States, Canada and Argentina are disputed. (details)


1963 Pan American Games, Participating nations
According to the Brazilian Olympic Committee, twenty-two nations sent competitors to São Paulo, but only twenty-one were listed. Barbados took part in the Pan American Games for the first time. Costa Rica, Haiti, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic competed in 1959 but did not participate in the 1963 Games.


1963 Pan American Games medal table
The 1963 Pan American Games, officially known as the IV Pan American Games, was a continental multi-sport event held in São Paulo, Brazil, from April 20 to May 5, 1963. At the Games, 1,665 athletes selected from 22 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in events in 19 sports. Eighteen nations earned medals during the competition and eleven won at least one gold. Barbados, debuting at the Pan American Games, won its first medals (three bronze), while British Guiana won its first ever gold medal. Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua and Paraguay did not send athletes to São Paulo, making it the Games with the lowest number of competitors in history.


1963 Pan American Games medal table
Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Guatemala, the Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela improved their position in the general medal table compared to the 1959 Pan American Games. The United States led the medal count, winning a total of 199 medals (106 gold, 56 silver and 37 bronze). Competitors from the host nation, Brazil, won 14 gold medals, 20 silver medals and 18 bronze medals, finishing the Games in second and marking the country's best performance to date, as well as its highest-ever position in the medal table.


1963 Pan American Games medal table
Judo made its debut in the Pan American Games. Brazil, as the host, was allowed to compete in all sports, bringing 385 athletes to the Games. Brazilians won more medals in boxing than in any other sport (three gold, five silver and one bronze), followed by athletics (two silver and six bronze) and tennis (three gold).


1963 Pan American Games medal table, Medal table
The ranking in this table is based on medal counts published by several media organizations and according to information provided by some NOCs, such as the Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC). However, there were no details regarding the number of events or the discrepancy between the number of gold, silver and bronze medals. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals won by the athletes representing a nation. (In this context, a nation is an entity represented by a NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IOC country code.


1963 Paraguayan Primera División season
The 1963 season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top category of Paraguayan football, was played by 11 teams. The national champions were Cerro Porteño.


1963 Paraguayan general election
General elections were held in Paraguay on 10 February 1963. Opposition parties had been legalized just a year earlier, after a 15-year period in which the Colorado Party was the only legally permitted party. They were the first elections in which opposition parties were allowed to take part since 1939.


1963 Paraguayan general election
Incumbent president Alfredo Stroessner of the Colorado Party was re-elected for a fourth term, whilst the Colorado Party won 40 of the 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Voter turnout was 85.1%.


1963 Paris–Nice
The 1963 Paris–Nice was the 21st edition of the Paris–Nice cycle race and was held from 10 March to 17 March 1963. The race started in Paris and finished in Nice. The race was won by Jacques Anquetil of the Saint-Raphaël team.


1963 Paris–Roubaix
The 1963 Paris–Roubaix was the 61st edition of the Paris–Roubaix cycle race and was held on 7 April 1963. The race started in Compiègne and finished in Roubaix. The race was won by Emile Daems of the Peugeot team.


1963 Paris–Tours
The 1963 Paris–Tours was the 57th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 6 October 1963. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Jo de Roo.


1963 Pau Grand Prix
The 23rd Pau Grand Prix was a non-Championship motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 15 April 1963 at Pau Circuit, the street circuit in Pau. The race was run over 100 laps of the circuit, and was won by Jim Clark in a Lotus 25. Clark and his team-mate Trevor Taylor dominated the race from start to finish, with their nearest rival finishing the race five laps adrift.


1963 Penn Quakers football team
The 1963 Penn Quakers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Pennsylvania during the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. Penn finished last in the Ivy League.


1963 Penn Quakers football team
In their fourth year under head coach John Stiegman, the Quakers compiled a 3–6 record and were outscored 189 to 97. Fred Jaffin was the team captain.


1963 Penn Quakers football team
Penn's 1–6 conference record was the worst in the Ivy League. The Quakers were outscored 183 to 43 by Ivy opponents.


1963 Penn Quakers football team
Penn played its home games at Franklin Field adjacent to the university's campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


1963 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team
The 1963 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 1963 NCAA University Division baseball season. The head coach was Chuck Bedlar, serving his 1st year.


1963 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team
The Nittany Lions lost in the College World Series, defeated by the Texas Longhorns.


1963 Penn State Nittany Lions football team
The 1963 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. Led by fourteenth-year head coach Rip Engle, the Nittany Lions were 7–3 and were 16th in the final coaches' poll. Home games were played on campus at Beaver Stadium in University Park; Penn State was independent in football until 1993.


1963 Penn State Nittany Lions football team
The Nittany Lions were led on the field in 1963 by fifth-year senior quarterback Pete Liske, who had been selected in the NFL and AFL drafts the previous December and went on to play a dozen seasons in pro football. The regular season finale against rival Pittsburgh was postponed two weeks following the assassination of President Kennedy.


1963 Peruvian Primera División
The 1963 season of the Primera División Peruana, the top category of Peruvian football, was played by 10 teams. The national champions were Alianza Lima.


1963 Peruvian general election
General elections were held in Peru on 9 June 1963 to elect the President and both houses of the Congress after the results of the 1962 elections were annulled following a military coup. Supported by Popular Action and the Christian Democrat Party, Fernando Belaúnde Terry won the presidential election with 39% of the vote, whilst the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance emerged as the largest party in both houses of Congress.


1963 Peruvian general election
Following a coup on 3 October 1968, no further elections were held until a Constituent Assembly was elected in 1978.


1963 Philadelphia Eagles season
The 1963 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 31st season in the National Football League.


1963 Philadelphia Eagles season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1963 Philadelphia Phillies season
The 1963 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 81st in franchise history. The 87–75 Phillies finished the season in fourth place in the National League, 12 games behind the NL and World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers.


1963 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1963 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1963 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1963 Philadelphia municipal election
Philadelphia's municipal election of November 5, 1963, involved contests for mayor, all seventeen city council seats, and several other executive and judicial offices. The Democrats lost vote share citywide and the Republicans gained one seat in City Council, but the Democratic acting mayor, James Hugh Joseph Tate, was elected to a full term and his party maintained their hold on the city government. The election was the first decline in the Democrats' share of the vote since they took control of the city government in the 1951 elections, and showed the growing tension between the reformers and ward bosses within their party.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Background
Since the 1951 election, Democrats in Philadelphia had held the mayor's office and a large majority of city council seats. Their victories in those years, which followed 67 years of Republican dominance, where achieved through a combination of reform-minded independents (including some former Republicans) and the Democratic organization led by Democratic City Committee chairman William J. Green, Jr. This coalition brought increasingly large victories to the Democratic Party throughout the 1950s.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Background
This pattern held through 1959 under reform mayors Joseph S. Clark Jr. and Richardson Dilworth, but by the early 1960s the coalition had begun to fray with reformers being increasingly marginalized. After Dilworth won reelection with 65% of the vote in 1959, grand jury investigations into City Hall corruption damaged the Democrats' chances in the 1961 election. The Democrats maintained power that year, but by smaller margins. Their reduced majorities and increased association with machine politics signaled the beginning of the end for the party's coalition with independent good government reformers.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Background
Dilworth's resignation in 1962 to run for governor made City Council President James Hugh Joseph Tate acting mayor. While Tate presented, in one author's words, "a rather neutral image in middle class wards," he also was the first mayor since Bernard Samuel to have come up through the ranks of a political machine. The fading connection between the Democratic organization and good-government independents gave the Republicans their first hope for victory in years.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Mayor
James Tate had served as acting mayor since Dilworth's resignation on February 12, 1962. In 1963, he sought the Democratic nomination for election in his own right. Tate's attempt at a four-year term exposed a growing breach in the coalition of independent reformers and Democratic ward bosses that had cemented that party's grip on the electorate since 1951. The Democratic City Committee, led by Representative William J. Green Jr., endorsed Tate, but the opinion was not universal.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Mayor
Former mayor Clark, now a United States Senator, endorsed the primary challenge by a slate of Democratic candidates proposed by the Americans for Democratic Action, a left-leaning group of which he was a member. For mayor, the ADA and Clark pushed Walter M. Phillips, a former city representative and one of the architects of the Democrats' reform measures of the early 1950s.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Mayor
The contrast between Tate and Phillips was highlighted in the primary campaign. Tate, the self-made son of Irish-American factory workers, charged that Phillips saw government service as "a hobby" and claimed he was "too inexperienced and does not know enough to deal with the problems" of running a large city. Phillips in turn charged Tate with permitting corruption in city government, failing to improve schools, and driving out qualified city employees in favor of partisan patronage hires. In a low-turnout primary, the Democratic electorate sided with Tate, who tallied 128,840 votes to Phillips's 40,931 and perennial candidate H. Jerome Jaspan's 13,165. Tate's victory over Phillips, Clark later wrote, "marked the end of the 'independent' good-government influence in City Hall."


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Mayor
The Republican nomination was also easily won by the party organization's favored candidate, James T. McDermott. McDermott, who had lost a special election for city council in 1962, was a lawyer who had previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney. During the general election campaign, McDermott tried to take on the reform mantle, saying that Tate had worked to sabotage the good-government reforms of the Clark and Dilworth administrations. Tate, for his part, contrasted his experience with McDermott's and touted his endorsement by the AFL–CIO. McDermott said that Tate "has never been off the public payroll in twenty-five years" and criticized the mayor's refusal to debate him.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Mayor
As the election neared, McDermott's attacks appeared to be working and political observers predicted a close race, possibly within 20,000 votes. While it was the closest race in years, the actual results were more solidly in favor of Tate, who won by nine percentage points. After a day of heavier-than-expected voter turnout, McDermott conceded that the mayor had won "fair and square." Tate thanked labor leaders, ex-Mayor Dilworth, and chairman Green for their efforts, while extending a special thanks to President John F. Kennedy, who campaigned for Tate the previous week. Although the campaign focused on issues of corruption and bossism, race also played a role; local black leaders, including Cecil B. Moore, strongly supported Tate and claimed that McDermott had "written off the Negro vote."


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, City Council
Philadelphians elected a seventeen-member city council in 1963, with ten members representing districts of the city, and the remaining seven being elected at-large. For the at-large seats, each political party could nominate five candidates, and voters could only vote for five, with the result being that the majority party could only take five of the seven seats, leaving two for the minority party.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, City Council
As in the mayor's race, a group of ADA-endorsed Democrats tried for nominations to City Council. In the at-large races, all five incumbents—Paul D'Ortona, Leon Kolankiewicz, Walter S. Pytko, Marshall L. Shepard, and Mary Varallo—were endorsed by the party's ward leaders, while liberals led by Clark pushed the candidacies of Lynwood F. Blount, Gordon Cavanaugh, Edmund B. Spaeth Jr., and Joy B. Takiff. Eight Democrats affiliated with neither of those factions also entered the race. The incumbents won easily, with vote totals ranging from 105,382 for Shepard to 71,852 for Pytko.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, City Council
The highest vote total for the insurgents was Takiff's 32,665. Incumbent Democrats in the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 10th districts also fended off primary challenges easily. The Republicans nominated five for the at-large seats without opposition, including incumbents Thomas M. Foglietta and Virginia Knauer. After the primary, Sheriff William M. Lennox denounced the challengers, calling the ADA "utterly repugnant to the people of this great historic city" and saying that "this self-proclaimed reform group should answer the questions on its 'Red China' allegiance which it evaded throughout the campaign."


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, City Council
In the at-large seats during the general election, as in the mayor's race, the Democratic share of the vote decreased but they still reelected all five of their candidates. Republicans reelected incumbents Thomas Foglietta and Virginia Knauer to their two at-large seats. In the district races, there was more change. Republicans defeated incumbent Democrats in the two seats representing Northeast Philadelphia in races that The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Joseph C. Goulden said turned on City Hall corruption and civil rights issues. The Democrats gained one seat back in the northwestern part of the city when Isadore H. Bellis narrowly defeated incumbent Stanley B. Smullen in a recently reconfigured 8th district. Democrats retained their hold on the remaining seven district seats, though with reduced majorities.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, City commissioners
In the race for city commissioners, each party nominated two candidates and the top three were elected. The office was a county office, a holdover from the time before consolidation of the townships in Philadelphia County into one city. The most important of the remaining duties of the commissioners in Philadelphia was the conduct of the city's elections; they also had responsibility for regulating weights and measures.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, City commissioners
Incumbent Democrats Thomas P. McHenry and Maurice S. Osser saw the same decline in their vote share as other Democrats did across the city, but held on to their seats on the city commission. Incumbent Republican Louis Menna edged out his running mate, Charles Wright, for the third seat. Two Socialist Labor Party candidates took a tiny share of the vote.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Other offices and ballot measures
Democrat William M. Lennox was reelected county sheriff, his fourth consecutive term. Louis Amarando, also a Democrat, was reelected clerk of the court of quarter sessions (a court whose jurisdiction was later transferred to the court of common pleas). The Democratic register of wills, John E. Walsh, Jr., also earned reelection. All three Democrats won their races by twelve or thirteen points, a decline from 1959, but still a safe majority. The Democrats also took nine of the fourteen magisterial district judge positions up for election that year (a local court, the duties of which have since been superseded by the Philadelphia Municipal Court) with incumbent Benjamin Segal leading the list.


1963 Philadelphia municipal election, Other offices and ballot measures
The ballot contained three questions authorizing more city borrowing: the first for $20.2 million to spend on land and buildings, the second for $16.9 million to spend on water and sewage systems, and the third for $5 million to spend on the Philadelphia Gas Works. All three passed by greater than two-to-one margins.


1963 Philippine Senate election
A senatorial election was held on November 12, 1963 in the Philippines. The 1963 elections were known as a midterm election as the date when the elected officials take office falls halfway through President Diosdado Macapagal's four-year term.


1963 Philippine Senate election
The Liberal Party won control of the chamber after having ten seats out of the 24-member Senate, as the 2-member Grand Alliance (the old Progressive Party) were caucusing with them, plus Alejandro Almendras of the Nacionalistas who personally supported Senate President Ferdinand Marcos.


1963 Philippine Senate election, Results
The Nacionalista Party and the Liberal Party each won four seats.


1963 Philippine Senate election, Results
Nacionalistas Arturo Tolentino and Gil Puyat, and Liberal Ambrosio Padilla all defended their seats.


1963 Philippine Senate election, Results
Five winners are neophyte senators. These are Juan Liwag, Gerardo Roxas and Tecla San Andres Ziga of the Liberal Party, and the Nacionalistas' Jose Diokno and Rodolfo Ganzon.


1963 Philippine Senate election, Results
Incumbent Nacionalista senators Eulogio Balao, Roseller T. Lim and Cipriano Primcias Sr., and Rogelio de la Rosa of the Liberal Party all lost.


1963 Pickens 200
The 1963 Pickens 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on June 30, 1963, at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina.


1963 Pickens 200
The transition to purpose-built racecars began in the early 1960s and occurred gradually over that decade. Changes made to the sport by the late 1960s brought an end to the "strictly stock" vehicles of the 1950s.


1963 Pickens 200, Race report
Three lead changes ended up circulating amongst three different race leaders. Herman Beam, Johnny Divers and Crawford Clements were three of the notable crew chiefs that witnessed the event.


1963 Pickens 200, Race report
Two cautions were initiated by NASCAR with the average speed of the competitors being 62.456 miles per hour (100.513 km/h). Pole position winner Ned Jarrett would earn the post with a speed of 65.526 miles per hour (105.454 km/h) on his 1963 Ford Galaxie before losing to Richard Petty driving his 1963 Plymouth Belvedere in the actual race. J. D. McDuffie would crash into the wall on his first lap in his 1961 Ford Galaxie vehicle; causing him to become the last-place finisher of the race. Frank Warren would make his NASCAR debut racing against Buck Baker, Neil Castles, Joe Weatherly, Wendell Scott (NASCAR's first African-American competitor), and Cale Yarborough.


1963 Pickens 200, Race report
This racing event took place on a dirt track oval with 200 laps being the pre-determined number of laps according to the NASCAR officials who sanctioned the event.


1963 Pittsburgh Panthers football team
The 1963 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1963 NCAA University Division football season. Led by ninth-year head coach John Michelosen, the Panthers were 9–1 and were fourth in the final AP poll, third in the coaches poll.


1963 Pittsburgh Panthers football team
The Panthers did not play in a bowl game; their most recent postseason appearance was in 1956 and the next was in 1973.


1963 Pittsburgh Pirates season
The 1963 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 82nd season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 77th in the National League. The Pirates finished eighth in the league standings with a record of 74–88.


1963 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season
On April 8, Pete Rose made his major league debut for the Cincinnati Reds in a game against the Pirates. He had three at bats without a hit.


1963 Pittsburgh Steelers season
The 1963 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the team's 31st in the National Football League. The Steelers won seven games, and lost four, with three games ending in a tie. As a result, the Steelers finished in fourth place in the NFL Eastern Conference. It was also their final season of splitting home games between Forbes Field and Pitt Stadium before moving all of their home games to the latter for the next six seasons. Because tie games were not included in NFL standings at the time, the Steelers had a chance to play in their first ever NFL Championship Game if they defeated the New York Giants in the season finale, but they fell 33-17. It would be their last winning season until 1972.


1963 Pittsburgh Steelers season
For the first time in 1963, the Steelers wore their trademark black helmets with their logo on one side of the helmet. They had used the logo previously on yellow helmets, but 1963 was the first season in which their now-signature look was used full-time in the regular season.


1963 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash
On 23 November 1963, an Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter of the Indian Air Force crashed in Poonch district enroute to Poonch town, killing all six people on board. Six distinguished officers of the Indian Armed Forces were on board, including three general officers, an air officer and a brigadier.


1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash
Among those killed in the crash were Lieutenant General Bikram Singh and Air Vice Marshal Erlic Pinto and the pilot Flight Lieutenant S. S. Sodhi.


1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash, Background
The electricity and water supply to the town of Poonch came through a channel from Betar Nullah. In October 1963, the headworks of the channel was  blown by Pakistan since it was located in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. A new water-head was constructed by the engineers of the Indian Army. By 21 November 1963, the water and electricity supply to Poonch were restored. A tour was planned to inspect the new water-head.