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A year in photos: 1963

Posted On 20th November 201321st November 2013 By Charlotte Johnson
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1st May 1963: Cuban Premier Fidel Castro with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during his visit to the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/ Tass)
4th May 1963: A civil rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Alabama. (AP Photo/ Bill Hudson)
11th June 1963: The Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, burns himself in Saigon to protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. (AP Photo, Malcolm Browne)
12th June 1963: Alabama’s governor George Wallace blocking the doorway to the registration office for two black students. General Henry Graham orders Wallace to step aside. (OFF/ AFP/ Getty Image)
16th June 1963: Television Transmission of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, from her spacecraft. (AP Photo/ Tass)
5th August 1963: A South Vietnamese Marine, wounded in a Viet Cong attack is comforted by a comrade. (AP Photo/ Horst Faas)
28th August 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr. after his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech in Washington D.C. (AFP/ AFP/ Getty Images)
22nd November 1963: The limousine of President John F. Kennedy just seconds after the shooting, rushing to the hospital in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo/ Justin Newman)
22nd November 1963: Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office on Air Force One. (Cecil Stoughton/ AFP/ Getty Images)
19th December 1963: East Berliners queuing to apply for a passage slip to West Berlin after the border had been opened for the first time. (AP Photo)
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