The World in 1963>>Events

3. Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration.
4. Travel, financial and commercial transactions to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration.
5. Iron Man debuts in Marvel Comics.
6. Gideon v. Wainwright: The Supreme rule state courts must provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who cannot afford to pay their own.
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9. Thousands of African Americans are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
11. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech.
12. The first push-button telephone is made available to AT&T customers.
13. John F. Kennedy assassination.
14. Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead.
15. The Beatles' songs "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the U.S., marking the beginning of full-scale Beatlemania.