• First inductees to NFL Hall Of Fame
   

• Beatles first album released (Please Please, Me); Beatlemania begins
   

• First artificial heart implant on human; First liver transplant
   

• Last Mercury Space Mission launched (Mercury-9)
   

• Pope Paul VI succeeds Pope John XXII
   

• Trade with Cuba ends
   

• First commercial nuclear reactor goes online
   

• Clean Air Act Passes Congress
   

• Martin Luther King delivers "I have a dream..." speech during "March on Washington"
   

• U.S. "goes to war" in Vietnam
   

• U.S. - Moscow "Red Phone" hotline created
   

• JFK assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes 36th president
   

• World Population 3.2 Billion; U.S. Population 190 Million
   

• U.S. Postage Stamp - 5 cents
   

• Record of the Year - I left My Heart In San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
   

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On the left you can find some facts about what happened the year I was born.  Quite an amazing time it was.  In the midst of a cold war with Russia, we began pouring our military personnel into Vietnam, while we worked furiously on our space program.  Martin Luther King was battling the racial barriers, we were at the cutting edge of some of our most important medical procedures,  a more eco-conscious America was emerging and Beatlemania was born!

During the very hot summer of 1963 a pair of twins were born on August 6.  (I was one of them)   I grew up in the Willimansett section of Chicopee until I was 5.  I began kindergarten at Chapin school (now closed, sniff, sniff) between Meadow and Chicopee streets.  In November of 1968 we moved to the farming and quarry town of East Longmeadow.  I've been here ever since.

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