Timeline Wednesday 27 March 1963

Events on Wednesday 27 March 1963 3

• 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.