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November 22, 1963

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 20, 1963, covering November 22, 1963.

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    Album cover for In The Wind by Peter| Paul & Mary

    In The Wind

    Peter| Paul & Mary

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    Album cover for The Second Barbra Streisand Album by Barbra Streisand

    The Second Barbra Streisand Album

    Barbra Streisand

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    Album cover for Golden Records Vol. 3 by Elvis Presley

    Golden Records Vol. 3

    Elvis Presley

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    Album cover for Trini Lopez At PJ's by Trini Lopez

    Trini Lopez At PJ's

    Trini Lopez

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    Album cover for Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul by Ray Charles

    Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul

    Ray Charles

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Notable Births

1963Hugh Millen, American football player[†]

Hugh Breedlove Millen is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams, Atlanta Falcons, New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos. He played college football for the Washington Huskies.

Tony Mowbray

1963Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager[†]

Anthony Mark Mowbray is an English football manager and former footballer who was most recently the manager of EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion. Mowbray played for Middlesbrough, Celtic and Ipswich Town as a defender.

Kennedy Polamalu

1963Kennedy Polamalu, Samoan-American football player and coach[†]

Kennedy Polamalu is an American Samoan professional football coach who is the running backs coach for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). Formerly, he served as the running backs coach for the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, and Las Vegas Raiders. He was the offensive coordinator for the UCLA Bruins. Prior to that he was the offensive coordinator for the USC Trojans.

Brian Robbins

1963Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[†]

Brian Robbins is an American film producer, director, and executive. He is the Co-CEO of Paramount Global; President and Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon; and Chief Content Officer, Movies & Kids & Family, Paramount+. As President & CEO of Paramount Pictures, Robbins oversees the filmed entertainment division's creative strategy and worldwide business operations including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Licensing Inc., and Paramount Studio Group.

Notable Deaths

Aldous Huxley

1963Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (born 1894)[†]

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems.

John F. Kennedy

1963John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (born 1917)[†]

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected president at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress prior to his presidency.

C. S. Lewis

1963C. S. Lewis, British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian (born 1898)[†]

Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain.

J. D. Tippit

1963J. D. Tippit, American police officer (born 1924)[†]

J. D. Tippit was an American World War II U.S. Army veteran and Bronze Star recipient, who was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department for 11 years. About 45 minutes after the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Tippit was shot and killed in a residential neighborhood in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of Tippit and was subsequently charged with killing President Kennedy. Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, two days later.

Historical Events

John F. Kennedy

1963U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.[†]

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the first Roman Catholic and youngest person elected president at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress prior to his presidency.

1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash

1963Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.[†]

On Friday, 22 November 1963, an Aérospatiale Alouette III helicopter of the Indian Air Force crashed in Poonch district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. The aircraft was en route to Poonch town, killing all six people on board. Six Indian Armed Forces officers were on board, including three general officers, an air officer and a brigadier.

Historical Context for November 22, 1963

In 1963, the world population was approximately 3,192,807,828 people[†]