Timeline March 1963

Events in March 1963 8

• 1932 – 1963 Patsy Cline (1932-1963) Died 5 March 1963, aged 30 Patsy Cline was an American singer who helped bring country music to mainstream pop audiences with hits like "Crazy" and "I Fall to Pieces". She died in a small plane crash in Tennessee along with fellow performers. She is regarded as one of the most influential vocalists in country music history.
• 1963 The Beach Boys release Surfin' U.S.A. Chuck Berry melody Set to Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Sixteen.
• 1963 Patsy Cline killed in a plane crash Camden, Tennessee Dies at 30 with Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins.
• 1963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes Notorious island prison shuts down after 29 years The federal government closed Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, citing high operating costs and crumbling infrastructure. The prison had held notorious inmates including Al Capone. It later became a popular tourist site and national recreation area.
• 1963 Please Please Me Debut album recorded in one day — March 22, 1963 The Beatles' debut album Please Please Me was released on March 22, 1963. Most of it was recorded in a single marathon session on February 11, 1963. It reached number 1 in the UK and stayed there for 30 weeks, replaced only by their second album.
• 1963 Beeching Report recommends mass rail closures British Railways plan cuts a third of the network Richard Beeching's report to the British government recommended closing thousands of miles of loss-making railway lines and stations. The resulting cuts, carried out over the following years, eliminated rail service to many small towns. The report remains a byword for controversial infrastructure cuts in Britain.
• 1963 – present Quentin Tarantino Video clerk to auteur, in ten films Quentin Tarantino learned cinema from behind the counter of a video shop in Manhattan Beach rather than at film school, and it shows in everything he has made: nonlinear structure, long talk before sudden violence, and a magpie appetite for spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation and Hong Kong action. He has said since the beginning that he will stop at ten films. He is currently at nine.
• 1963 Quentin Tarantino born in Knoxville, Tennessee Named after a Burt Reynolds character Quentin Jerome Tarantino is born to sixteen-year-old Connie McHugh, a nurse, and named after Burt Reynolds' character in the television western Gunsmoke. The family moves to the South Bay area of Los Angeles when he is four. He drops out of school at fifteen.