June 1963

Monday 03:

A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.

Wednesday 05:

British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal.

Tuesday 11:

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

Wednesday 12:

Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is shot dead in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.

Sunday 16:

Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space

Monday 17:

The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.

Thursday 20:

The so-called "red telephone" was established between Soviet Union and United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Saturday 22:

Pope Paul VI elected by College of Cardinals.

Monday 24:

Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.

Wednesday 26:

John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.