Audio: 'The Beatles - Juke Box Jury (29th June 1963)'
(Saturday, June 22, 1963, 8:30-9:15 p.m. BST) — John Lennon appeared without the other Beatles tonight on the BBC television show Juke Box Jury for broadcast on June 29, 1963, at 6:35 p.m. (only some of the audio survives).
Video: 'elezione Papa Paolo VI (1963)'
(Friday, June 21, 1963) — Giovanni Battista Montini, the Archbishop of Milan was elected today as the 262nd pope, succeeding the late Pope John XXIII, who died June 3, 1963. Cardinal Montini would take the regnal name Pope Paul VI and would lead the Roman Catholic Church until his death in 1978.
Video: 'The Great Escape' trailer
(Thursday, June 20, 1963) — The Great Escape, a film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, premiered today in London.
Directed by John Sturges, the film stars Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and James Coburn.
Video: 'Dr. Strangelove phone conversation U.S President'
(Thursday, June 20, 1963) — The Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL) was authorized today by the signing of a “Memorandum of Understanding Regarding the Establishment of a Direct Communications Line” in Geneva, Switzerland, by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States. The agreement resulted from the Cuban Missile Crisis, which made it clear that reliable, direct communications between the two nuclear powers were a necessity.
(Wednesday, June 19, 1963, during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent Congress today a five-point civil rights program (which would eventually become the Civil Rights Act of 1964), providing the most “responsible, reasonable and urgently needed solutions” to discrimination in public accommodations, education and employment.
Video: 'Cleopatra' trailer
(Wednesday, June 12, 1963) — Cleopatra, an epic drama film that chronicles the struggles of Cleopatra VII, the young Queen of Egypt, to resist the imperialist ambitions of Rome, premiered today in New York City.
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Hume Cronyn, and George Cole.
Video: 'Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coupe"'
(Wednesday, June 12, 1963) — The Beach Boys recorded “Little Deuce Coupe” and re-recorded “Surfer Girl” at Western Recorders Studio in Hollywood. Continue reading The Beach Boys record ‘Little Deuce Coupe’ and ‘Surfer Girl’ 50 years ago today (1963)
Video: 'Barbra Streisand - "When The Sun Comes Out"'
(Sunday, June 9, 1963, 8 p.m. EDT) — Barbra Streisand performed “When the Sun Comes Out” on tonight’s edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
Video: 'The Nutty Professor' trailer
(Tuesday, June 4, 1963) — The Nutty Professor, a science fiction comedy feature film about a timid chemist discovers a potion that unleashes his sleazy side (a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), opened today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Jerry Lewis, the film stars Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore and Kathleen Freeman.
Video: 'The Searchers - Sweets for my sweet (HQ)'
(Tuesday, June 4, 1963) — The Searchers, a beat group from Liverpool, England, today released their debut single — a cover of The Drifters’ “Sweets for My Sweet.”
