Events of the year 1963 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
Events
- January–April - Winter of 1963: Britain has the worst winter since 1948. Low temperatures keep lying snow around until early April in some areas.
- 23 January - Double Agent Kim Philby disappears having defected to the Soviet Union.
[ (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0. ]
- 18 January - Hugh Gaitskell dies suddenly, causing a leadership election in the Labour Party.
[Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 420-421. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. ]
- 29 January - Charles De Gaulle vetos United Kingdom\'s entry into the EEC.
- 14 February - The Labour Party elects Harold Wilson as its new leader, and Leader of the Opposition.
[
] - 22 March - The Beatles release the album Please Please Me.
- 27 March - Chairmen of British Railways Dr Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the UK\'s rail network.
["1963: Railways to be slashed by a quarter", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.]
- 15 April - 70,000 marchers arrive in London from Aldermarston, to demonstrate against nuclear weapons.
- 24 April- Princess Alexandra of Kent marries Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey.
- 5 June - Profumo Affair: John Profumo, Secretary of State for War resigns over affair with Christine Keeler.
["1963: Profumo resigns over sex scandal", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.]
- 8 June - Profumo Affair: Stephen Ward charged with living on immoral earnings.
["1963: Ward charged over \'immoral earnings\'", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.]
- 1 July - Kim Philby named as the \'Third Man\' in the Burgess and Maclean spy ring.
[
] - 12 July - Pauline Reade, 16, is reported missing on her way to a dance in Gorton, Manchester.
- 5 August - The United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.
- 8 August - The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire.
["1963: Train robbers make off with millions", BBC On This Day. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.]
- 5 September - Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury. On December 6 she is sentenced to 9 months in prison.
- 18 September – Rioters burn down British embassy in Jakarta to protest formation of Malaysia.
- 25 September - The Denning Report on the Profumo affair is published.
- 10 October - Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announces his resignation on the grounds of ill health.
[
] - 17 October - In Stockholm, two Britons (Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley) and an Australian (John Carew Eccles) are announced as winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane".
[The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.]
- 19 October - Alec Douglas Home replaces Macmillan as Prime Minister.
[
] - 22 October - The National Theatre Company gives its first performance, with Peter O\'Toole as Hamlet.
[
] - 18 November - The Dartford Tunnel opens.
- 23 November
- 25 November - John F. Kennedy assassination: The Duke of Edinburgh, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Leader of the Opposition Harold Wilson attend the funeral of the late U.S. President John F Kennedy in Washington DC, United States.
- 12 December - Kenya gains its independence.
[ (1999) The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon, 502. ISBN 1-85986-000-1. ]
Undated
Publications
Births
January - April
- 3 January - Matthew Taylor, Liberal Democrat politician and MP for Truro and St Austell
- 16 January - James May, English motoring journalist and television show host
- 18 January - Ian Crook, English footballer
- 19 January
- 22 January - Huw Irranca-Davies, Welsh Labour politician and MP forOgmore
- 26 January - Andrew Ridgely, English musician
- 27 January - George Monbiot, British journalist and weekly columnist for The Guardian
- 17 February - Alison Hargreaves, British mountain climber (died 1995)
- 19 February - Seal, singer
- 14 March - Michael John Foster, English Labour politician and MP for Worcester
- 16 March - Jerome Flynn, British actor
- 20 March - David Thewlis, English actor
- 6 April - Andrew Weatherall, English disc jockey
- 7 April - Nick Herbert, British Conservative politician and MP for Arundel and South Downs
- 8 April - Julian Lennon, musician son of John Lennon
May - August
- 9 May - Barry Douglas Lamb,musician, author, and preacher
- 11 May - Natasha Richardson, actress
- 6 June - Jason Isaacs, actor
- 23 June - Colin Montgomerie, Scottish golfer
- 25 June - George Michael, singer
- 27 June - Meera Syal, comedian, writer, singer, and actress
- 3 July - Tracey Emin, British artist
- 6 July - Stuart Garrard, English guitarist
- 25 July - Julian Hodgson, English chess grandmaster
- 31 July - Fatboy Slim (born Quentin Leo Cook), English musician
- 3 August - Tasmin Archer, English singer
- 4 August - Gary King, British DJ
- 30 August
September - December
- 18 September - Rob Brettle, British historian
- 19 September
- 23 September - Jackie Pearcey, English politician
- 26 September - Lysette Anthony, English actress
- 12 October - Alan McDonald, Northern Irish footballer
- 1 November - Rick Allen, British musician (Def Leppard)
- 4 November - Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer (died 1999)
- 10 November - Hugh Bonneville, actor
- 19 November - Jon Potter, British field hockey player
- 20 November - William Timothy Gowers, British mathematician
- 21 November - Nicolette Sheridan, English actress
- 26 November - Joe Lydon, English international Rugby League player
- 5 December - Eddie \'the Eagle\' Edwards, English ski jumper
- 7 December - Mark Bowen, Welsh footballer
- 22 December - Bryan Gunn, Scottish footballer
- 29 December - Dave McKean, English artist and filmmaker
Unknown dates
Deaths
See also
References
See also
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