Half a century ago

Today we made another trip to the past. Exactly half a century ago. 1963 was rich in various events, both good and tragic. We offer you a kaleidoscope of photos of the year.

"March on Washington" on August 28. The crowd welcomed Martin Luther King on the Mall in Washington.





An American soldier looks from a helicopter over the valley of the Mekong River, Vietnam. The second of January.



Yves Montand sang at a charity evening dedicated to the second year of the presidency of John F. Kennedy, Washington on January 18.



The view from a car in Baghdad, Iraq, where the planned coup, February 12.



Sick watching a portable TV in a hospital in Tokyo. After a couple of years, these TVs will be sought-after in the developed countries.



Napalm attack in Vietnam, February 28.



Start the 12-hour endurance race at Sebring, Florida, USA.



Demonstration of the first VCR in the studio BBC, March 14.



John and Jacqueline Kennedy in a parade in Washington, DC, March 27.



The consequences of the eruption of the volcano Agung in Bali, March 26.



Miss Junior America - in 1963, 17-year-old Diane Sawyer, photographed in New York, March 18.



Antarctic station, built in 1940, was found on 13 March in an icebreaker iceberg in the Ross Sea. The station was buried in a huge blanket of snow.



The first newspaper in the subway in New York after a 114-day strike on 1 April.



Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King, accompanied by police expelled from the place of demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, April 12.



An attempt to break the world speed record of Donald Campbell on his «Bluebird», April 2 at Lake Eyre in Australia. The record is almost 650 km / h was established only a year later.



The launch of «Mercury Atlas 9" from Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 5. On board is the astronaut Gordon Cooper.



This photo taken during a civil demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, traveled around the Miri has become almost the main resonance of further developments on racial equality, May 4.



Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his legendary "plate" in the Red Sea, during the June study.



US President John F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd near City Hall in West Berlin.



The first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, June 16 rose to Earth aboard the "Vostok-6».



Buddhist monk burns himself in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists of the South Vietnamese government on June 11.



Installing artificial pump for pumping the blood of patients with heart disease in Houston, July 19.



Joan Buzz and Bob Dylan perform at a rally for civil rights in Washington, DC, August 28.



Swedish fan sings on stage with «The Beatles» and covers of George Harrison, during a concert in Stockholm.



The first seconds after the shooting of US President John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally, November 22, Dallas, Texas.



The eruption of the volcano on the island of Surtsey, near Iceland. Before the eruption of the volcano of the island did not exist. Photos 2 december.



So the world looked 50 years ago.