1963
 
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  • Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah form the Federation of Malaysia.
  • Douglas-Home PM of England
  • Profumo scandal undermines the Conservative government in Britain.
  • John F. Kennedy assassinated
  • Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson President of US
  • Paul V1 succeeds John XX111 as Pope
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his "I Have a Dream" speech
  • Erhard replaces Adenhauer as Chancellor of W Germany
  • British spy Harold (Kim) Philby defects to the USSR.
  • First space flight by a woman (Valentina Tereskova)
  • First Porsche 911 produced
  • Australian population passes 11,000,000
  • 3 weeks annual leave granted in Australia
  • First cassette recorder
  • "Trolls" (ugly goblin-like dolls with frizzy hair) popular

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