1963 in India

Template:Year in region Events in the year 1963 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
• Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh –
• Assam –
• Bihar –
• Gujarat –
• Karnataka –
• Kerala –
• Madhya Pradesh –
• Maharashtra –
• Nagaland –
• Odisha –
• Punjab –
• Rajasthan –
• Uttar Pradesh –
• West Bengal –

Events

• Supreme Court of India mandates that reservation should not exceed 50% for any institution.
• Theft of the Holy Relic from the Hazratbal Shrine

• The rocket for India's first ever rocket launch was carried in parts on a bicycle to the launch site, a church in Thiruvananthapuram in 1963. The launch sent NASA-made Nike-Apache rocket to space and led to the foundation of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by Vikram Sarabhai on August 15, 1969

Births

• 29 April – Deepika Chikhalia, actress.
• 25 May – Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava, scientist.
• 2 June – Anand Abhyankar, Marathi Actor.

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  16 June – Irai Anbu, Indian Administrative Service.
• 30 July – Abhijith, actor.
• 10 August – Phoolan Devi, bandit turned politician, assassinated (d.2001).
• 13 August – Sridevi, Actress.
• 17 August – S. Shankar, director.
• 20 October – Navjot Singh Sidhu, Indian opening batsman.
• 4 December – Javed Jaffrey, actor.

Full date unknown

• Keshava Malagi, writer.

Deaths

• 13 April – Babu Gulabrai, writer and historian (b. 1888).
• 30 30 October - U. Muthuramalingam Thevar, Indian Freedom Fighter, Orator, Politician (b. 1908).
• 24 November – Marotrao Kannamvar, Politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
• 2 December – Sabu Dastagir, actor (b. 1924).

Full date unknown

• Amar Nath Kak, lawyer and author (b. 1889).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1963

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