On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
Govt com headed by Lord Robbins urges raising number of univs from 32 to 60 by '80 to permit enrollment of 560,000 full-time students as against 216,000 now; puts initial cost at almost $4 billion, rise in yrly operating cost at $1.4 million; most of funds to come from Govt; other details
Times Sq: Edison Discount Center; fire fighting hampered by billboard masking top 3 stories of bldg
Illus
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 The first in what is expected to be a series of sales of American grain to the Soviet bloc was authorized today.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson met with Republican and Democratic leaders of the House tonight in a last-minute effort to get agreement on a civil rights bill.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 23, 1963, covering October 24, 1963.
Peter| Paul & Mary
Soundtrack
Allan Sherman
Peter| Paul & Mary
Barbra Streisand
1963Mark Grant, American baseball player and sportscaster[†]
Mark Andrew Grant, nicknamed "Mud", is an American former professional starting pitcher and is the color commentator for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB).
1963John Hendrie, Scottish footballer and manager[†]
John Grattan Hendrie is a Scottish former professional footballer who played on the right wing or in attack.
1963An oxygen leak from an R-9 Desna missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people.[†]
The R-9 was a two-stage IRBM of the Soviet Union, in service from 1964 to 1976.
In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]