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1963
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"Ze tightness of your shorts equals ze square route of your age." Einstein.
Meanwhile, in the real world, 1963 was a helluva year because...

  • The Baath Party first took power In Iraq
  • Six people got the death sentence in Paris plotting to kill de Gaulle.
  • Yugoslavia proclaimed itself a Socialist republic.
  • Race riots in Birmingham, Alabama. USA
  • Timothy Leary fired from Harvard for experimenting with psychedelic drugs
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
  • 1st demonstration of home video recorder was at the BBC Studios in London.
  • President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made declaration: [Ich bin ein Berliner] (I am a Berliner) .The misplaced article [ein] made an exact translation to say [I am a jelly donut.]
  • Serial killers Myra Hindley and boyfriend, Ian Brady (the Moors Murderers), began killing children in Britain
  • Great Train Robbery UK took place as thieves made off with 2.62 million quid
  • Beatles released She Loves You
  • The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
  • USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia.
  • Hurricane Flora, killed 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
  • Nuclear Testing was outlawed in the atmosphere, underwater and in outer space.
  • John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, had been in office two years, 10 months and two days, when a bullet ended his life in Dallas, Texas
  • Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald,
  • The Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to West Berliners
  • Johnny Cash: [Ring of Fire.]
  • Vietnam Buddhist monks set themselves on fire in protest to the war.
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