1963 in Chile
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The following lists events that happened during 1963 in Chile.
Incumbents
- President of Chile: Jorge Alessandri
Events
January
- 1 January – The Deportes Ovalle football club is founded.
February
- The fourth version of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival takes place.
April
- 7 April - Municipal elections are held, which largely favored the Christian Democrats.
- 21 April - The first prize of Miss World Chile is given to Maria Pilar Aguirre Gómez.
- 30 April - The Jackal of Nahueltoro is murdered under Capital punishment, convicted of murdering his former partner and his five children (only hers).
May
- 6 May - an explosion of a cyclopropane balloon in the San Borja Arriaran Hospital in Santiago caused the death of 6 people (2 surgeons, 2 patients and 2 anesthesiologists) and left another 2 surgeons and 12 assistants seriously injured.
July
- 3 July - The first edition of the Juan Pinto Duran Cup is held.
December
- 16 December - The statutes and regulations of Rugby in Chile, founded 10 years before, were made official.
Births
- 16 January – Tomás Jocelyn-Holt[1]
- 11 March – Hugo González
- 13 March – Aníbal González
- 24 March – Iván Morovic
- 25 March – Jaime Vera
- 21 April – Eduardo Vilches
- 23 April – Fernando Luis Capurro
- 2 November – Daniel Farcas
Deaths
- 8 December – Juana Rosa Aguirre (b. 1877)
References
- ^ "Tomás Jocelyn Holt Letelier" (in Spanish). Library of the National Congress of Chile. Retrieved 8 February 2024.