June 1963 Monday 03: A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101. Wednesday 05: British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal. Tuesday 11: Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam. Sunday 16: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space Monday 24: Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.

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