Timeline September 1963

Events in September 1963 4

• 1963 Bo Diddley tours Britain with the Rolling Stones British Invasion Tours with the Everly Brothers and the young Stones.
• 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing Ku Klux Klan bombing kills four Black girls in Birmingham A bomb planted by Klansmen exploded at a Black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls preparing for Sunday service. The attack came weeks after the city's desegregation agreement and drew national outrage. It became one of the defining atrocities of the civil rights era.
• 1963 Federation of Malaysia formed Malaya, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak unite The Federation of Malaya merged with Singapore, North Borneo and Sarawak to form the Federation of Malaysia. Indonesia and the Philippines objected, and Indonesia launched a low-level military confrontation against the new state. Singapore would separate to become independent in 1965.
• 1963 Hurricane Flora devastates Haiti and Cuba One of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes on record Hurricane Flora stalled over Haiti and Cuba for days, dumping catastrophic rainfall and causing widespread flooding. The storm killed several thousand people, mostly in Haiti, making it one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes of the 20th century. Cuba's agricultural sector suffered severe losses.