On the right you can find some facts about what was happening 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 that very hot summer, 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, but the quarries and most farms are gone.
1963
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-Atlas 9)
Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union becomes the first woman in space.
Pope Paul VI succeeds Pope John XXIII
Trade with Cuba ends
Studebaker ends U.S. production
Alcatraz closes
First commercial nuclear reactor goes online
New Hampshire opens first State Lottery
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
World Religions status: 890 million Christians, 200 million Buddhists, 365 million Hindus, 13 million Jews
U.S. Postage Stamp - 5 cents
U.S. Postal Zip Code introduced
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
Record of the Year - I left My Heart In San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres
Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone
Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game
Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time
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zipsworld.com is a site I created to be a homepage for me and my friends. It has our
favorite links and the site is loaded with pages of pictures and video from over the years.