At A Glance

7 March 1963 at a glance

Day of the week
7 March 1963 was a Thursday.
Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)
“From a Jack to a King” by Ned Miller was No. 1 on David Kent's retrospective Australian chart. This chart was compiled later by David Kent from radio station charts.
Top Film of 1963
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1963 was Cleopatra.
Star sign
The star sign for 7 March is Pisces.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 7 March 1963 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
Birthstone
The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 7 March 1963 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 7 March

  • 1931 The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
  • 1945 World War II: The American 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captures an intact bridge over the Rhine.
  • 1965 Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
  • 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
  • 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.

Famous people born on 7 March

  • Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter (born 1964)
  • Rachel Weisz, English actress (born 1970)
  • Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer (born 1944)
  • Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer (born 1956)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 1963 in Australia

A selection from Wikipedia's '1963 in Australia'. Not a complete list.

  • 21 March – At the conference, Arthur Calwell and Gough Whitlam were photographed outside the venue at Kingston in Canberra. Although Calwell was the Leader of the Opposition, neither man was a member of the federal executive.
  • 14 August – Yolngu people petitioned the Australian House of Representatives with a bark petition after the government sold part of the Arnhem Land reserve on 13 March to a bauxite mining company. The government did not consult the traditional owners.
  • 1 November – Indigenous Australians could vote in federal elections on the same basis as other electors when an amendment to the Commonwealth Electoral Act became law.

Life in Australia in 1963

Prime Minister

Robert Menzies

Monarch

Queen Elizabeth II

Petrol (per litre)

$0.05

Loaf of Bread

$0.14

Average House

$6,800

Weekly Wage

$19.00

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Famous Faces Born in the 1960s

Well-known people born in the same decade as you, not on your birthday.

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