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  • Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
    Monday Apr 1, 1963
    Martin Luther King

    Birmingham campaign

    Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
    Monday Apr 1, 1963

    In April 1963, the SCLC began a campaign against racial segregation and economic injustice in Birmingham, Alabama. The campaign used nonviolent but intentionally confrontational tactics, developed in part by Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker. Black people in Birmingham, organizing with the SCLC, occupied public spaces with marches and sit-ins, openly violating laws that they considered unjust.




  • Yugoslavia
    Sunday Apr 7, 1963
    Josip Broz Tito

    The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

    Yugoslavia
    Sunday Apr 7, 1963

    On 7 April 1963, the country changed its official name to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.




  • United Kingdom
    Wednesday Apr 10, 1963
    James Bond

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service was published

    United Kingdom
    Wednesday Apr 10, 1963

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the tenth novel (and eleventh book) in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 1 April 1963.




  • Tebedu, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Friday Apr 12, 1963
    Brunei revolt

    Capturing The Police Station at Tebedu

    Tebedu, Sarawak, Malaysia
    Friday Apr 12, 1963

    On 12 April, the police station at Tebedu in the 1st Division of Sarawak was attacked and captured. The attackers had come from Kalimantan. This marked the beginning of Confrontation.




  • Baku, Azerbaijan, U.S.S.R (Azerbaijan Present Day)
    Saturday Apr 13, 1963
    Garry Kasparov

    Birth

    Baku, Azerbaijan, U.S.S.R (Azerbaijan Present Day)
    Saturday Apr 13, 1963

    Kasparov was born Garik Kimovich Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR (now Azerbaijan), Soviet Union.




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