page_title: 1963
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1963 / Events / August
caption_attribution_description: Crowds surrounding the Reflecting Pool, during the 1963 March on Washington.
context_page_description: 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1963rd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1960s decade.
context_section_description: August 5 – The United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
  August 8 – The Great Train Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England.
  August 14 – A huge devastating forest fire hit around Paraná State, Brazil. According to government official documents figured report, two million hectares (4.94 million acres) were lost to burn, 110 persons were perish.
  August 15 – Trois Glorieuses: President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of Congo after a three-day uprising in the capital, Brazzaville.
  August 18 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
  August 21 – Xá Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across South Vietnam, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead. In the wake of the raids, the Kennedy administration by Cable 243 orders the United States Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in the country, opening the way towards a coup against Diệm.
  August 22 – American test pilot Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting the X-15 to an altitude of 67.0 miles (107.8 kilometers).
  August 24 – First games played in the Bundesliga, the primary professional Association football league in West Germany, replacing the Oberliga.
  August 28 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history.
caption: August 28: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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