1963 in Chile

List of events

  • 1962
  • 1961
  • 1960
1963
in
Chile

  • 1964
  • 1965
  • 1966
Decades:
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
See also:
  • Other events of 1963
  • Timeline of Chilean history

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

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

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Tomás Jocelyn Holt Letelier" (in Spanish). Library of the National Congress of Chile. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
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1963 in South America
Sovereign states
  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Guyana
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Suriname
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela
Dependencies and
other territories
  • Falkland Islands
  • French Guiana
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands