Meditation, April 2023


Vogue cover, April 1, 1963

April 1963

The month and year that I was born,
so many amazing things happened

...in addition to
my own arrival, of course!


Top-Rated TV Shows: 

  1. The Beverly Hillbillies,
  2. Petticoat Junction, 
  3. The Fugitive, 
  4. Bonanza, 
  5. My Favorite Martian, 
  6. The Outer Limits

Top Tunes:  

Pop:
"He's So Fine"
 (The Chiffons)
"I Will Follow Him"
 (Little Peggy March)  
"Can't Get Used to Losing You"
 (Andy Williams)

Country:
"Still"
 (Bill Anderson)
"Don't Let Me Cross Over"
 (Carl & Pearl Butler)
"The Ballad of Jed Clampett"
 (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs)

Tops at the Box Office:

Lawrence of Arabia 
won the 
Oscar for Best Picture
Pictured, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif

Gregory Peck won Best Actor for 
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pictured with co-star Brock Peters

Anne Bancroft won Best Actress for
portraying Helen Keller's teacher in 
The Miracle Worker
Pictured with her young co-star Patty Duke

April 1963

The push button phone arrived!

  • Zip Codes were introduced by the US Post Office
  • New Hampshire became the first of the United States to legalize a state lottery
  • The popular children's book Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was published
  • The Soviet Union accepted a US proposal for a direct Hot Line between the two adversaries
    April 1, 1963, ABC television network
    airs the premiere episode of
    General Hospital,
    the daytime drama would become
    the longest-running serial program
    ever produced in Hollywood.
April 1963
  • The youngest Osmond, Jimmy, is born
  • The Beatles announced they would be coming to the United States

April 11, 1963
John and Cynthia Lennon in
Liverpool England
had a son they named Julian
  • Boots Randolph, better-known as an accompanist for many performers in rock, pop, and country music, had his only U.S. hit, reaching no 1 on the Billboard chart with "Yakety Sax".
  • Sir Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, became the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States
  • A 58-year-old man, with lung cancer, was admitted to the University of Mississippi hospital and would become the first recipient of a lung transplant
At Augusta National Golf Club,
a 23-year-old Jack Nicklaus 
won the 27th Masters Tournament,
becoming the youngest player
to win the Masters
April 1963
  • The first U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher sank during sea trials 220 miles (350 km) east of Cape Cod, killing the 112 U.S. Navy personnel and 17 civilians on board.
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) volunteers kicked off the Birmingham campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, against racial segregation in the United States, with a sit-in. 
  • 9 days later on April 12 the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others were arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for "parading without a permit".
"April 16, 1963:
My Dear Fellow Clergymen,
While confined here in
the Birmingham City Jail, ...
I have no fear
about the outcome of our
struggle in Birmingham,
even if our motives are
at present misunderstood.
We will reach
the goal of freedom..."
April 1963
  • Cuba released its last American prisoners, 27 men who had been incarcerated by the Castro government.
  • Garry Kasparov, Russian/Soviet chess grandmaster was born
  • The U.S. Marine Corps lost its first aircraft to enemy action in Vietnam, when Viet Cong ground fire shot down a UH-34D transport helicopter
  • TV Personalities Conan O’Brien, Joe Scarborough and Graham Norton were born
On my birthday April 15, 1963
"Colossus", the largest snake
ever kept in captivity,
at the Highland Park Zoo 
in Pittsburgh, died.
A reticulated Python,
she measured
28 1/2 feet long
and at one time
weighed 320 pounds.
  • Seventy thousand marchers arrived in London to demonstrate against nuclear weapons
  • The White House announced First Lady Jackie Kennedy was pregnant and that her baby would be delivered by Caesarean section in September. The child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, would be born prematurely on August 7, and would survive for only two days.

April 15, 1963
Andrew Oldham
 sees the The Rolling Stones
in concert at the
Crawdaddy Club in London.
3 weeks later they sign a contract
for him to be their Manager.
Because Oldham was only 19
- younger than anyone in the band—
he could not obtain an
agent's licence or
sign any contracts
without his mother co-signing.
She reluctantly agreed to do so.
Thanks Mom!

    And a huge thank you to my Mom, as well, who labored for 12 hours in

    John's Community Hospital
    in Taylor, Texas
    on April 15, 1963     
    and gave birth to this alien-looking bald bundle of joy!

    ______________________


    ______________________________

    Terry’s “Good Living” Guide:

    Body:
    Avoid the 3 PsBsSs
    Processed Foods, Phthalates, Plastics;
    Beef, Butter, Breads;
    Sedentary activities, Sugars, Salt.
    Trust me,
    you’ll be feeling better in no time!

    Mind & Spirit:
    Avoid the 3 F’s
    Manufactured in these mediums are
    misinformation, fear, anger and hate!

    JOIN ME IN ENSURING AN EDUCATED CITIZENRY!

    JOIN ME IN ENSURING AN EDUCATED CITIZENRY!

    Join me in ensuring an educated citizenry!
    BECOME A SUSTAINING MEMBER TODAY!






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