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1963
 
    
English author John Le Carré publishes a Cold-War thriller The Spy Who Came in from the Cold       
1963
 
     
British choreographer Frederick Ashton creates Marguerite and Armand for Margot Fonteyn and her new partner, Rudolf Nureyev        
1963
 
  
Gideon v. Wainwright establishes that every defendant in a US court has the right to be represented by a lawyer     
1963
 
    
Mary McCarthy's novel The Group follows the subsequent adventures of eight fellow graduates from Vassar       
1963
 
    
A scandal involving the minister of war, John Profumo, damages the Macmillan government in Britain       
1963
 
   
Liberal leader Lester Pearson begins five years at the head of minority governments in Canada      
1963
 
    
US environmentist Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, an impassioned warning of ecological disaster       
1963
 
    
Pope John XXIII dies, only a few month's after the start of the great Vatican council that he has summoned       
1963
 
    
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, flying solo in Vostok 6       
1963
 
    
Young British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers work together as Team 4