March 1963

Saturday 02:

Release of Please Please Me in the United Kingdom, the first LP from The Beatles.

Monday 04:

In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.

Tuesday 05:

Country singer Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash.

Friday 15:

Victor Feguer, a Federal prisoner, is put to death at the Fort Madison, Iowa prison. This would be the last execution of a Federal prisoner until the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001.

Tuesday 19:

Saxophonist Stan Getz records Getz/Gilberto, including The Girl from Ipanema, sung by Astrud and João Gilberto.

Thursday 21:

Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.

Friday 22:

1963 Please Please Me, the first Beatles album, is released in the UK.

Saturday 23:

In London, United Kingdom, Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann win the eighth Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark singing "Dansevise" (Dancing tune).

Wednesday 27:

Dr Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network. See Beeching axe.