1963
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"On 14 March 1963 Frank Zappa appeared on the Steve Allen Show on Channel 5. He had ... also with his jazz recordings, but they weren't interested until he came up with a gimmick: he would play a bicycle, a musical form he called 'Cyclophony'." --Frank Zappa (2014) by Barry Miles "To these people, apparently the balance of nature was something that was repealed as soon as man came on the scene - you might just as well assume that you could repeal the law of gravity."--Rachel Carson cited in CBS Reports: The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson (1963) |
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1963 (MCMLXIII) was the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.
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Art and culture
- Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
- Coxsone Dodd opens the first black-owned Jamaican recording facility Studio One
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Ted Nelson coins the term hypertext
- Richard Hoggart becomes the first director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- The results of the Milgram experiment are published
- Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz playing chess, a photo by Julian Wasser of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a Eve Babitz
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Literature
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Fiction
- The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
- Hopscotch by Cortázar
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Non-fiction
- Blues People by Amiri Baraka
- The Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger
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Visual arts
- Grotesk by Hannah Höch
- Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
- Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
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Photography
- Twentysix Gasoline Stations by Ed Ruscha
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Music
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Singles
- Cristo Redentor by Donald Byrd
- Mas que Nada by Jorge Ben
- Madness by Prince Buster
- Oye Como Va by Tito Puente
- Yeh Yeh by Mongo Santamaría
- Needles and Pins, a song made famous by The Searchers
- Les Nuits d'une demoiselle by Colette Renard
- Queen for Tonight by Helen Shapiro
- Louie Louie by The Kingsmen
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Albums
- The Lonely Surfer by Jack Nitzsche
- Night Lights by Gerry Mulligan
- Idle Moments by Grant Green
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Film
- The Silence by Ingmar Berman
- Blood Feast by Herschell Gordon Lewis
- Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard
- The Servant by Joseph Losey
- The Whip and the Body by Mario Bava
- X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes by Roger Corman
- La ricotta by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Haunting by Robert Wise
- The Girl Hunters by Roy Rowland
- The Sadist by James Landis
- The Nutty Professor by Jerry Lewis
- Shock Corridor by Samuel Fuller
- The Cool World by Shirley Clarke
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Shorts
- Towers Open Fire by Antony Balch
- Flaming Creatures by Jack Smith
- Scorpio Rising by Kenneth Anger
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Births
- November 18 - Joost Zwagerman, Dutch writer, poet and essayist (d. 2015)
- David LaChapelle
- Simon Reynolds
- Gaspar Noé
- Tracey Emin
- Quentin Tarantino
- Jeff Mills
- Derrick May
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Deaths
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963)
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Édith Piaf (1915 - 1963)
- Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963)
- Jean Bruce (1921 - 1963)
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