Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1963. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman (British Railways No. 60103) makes last scheduled run, before being preserved.

February: Suffering from severe depression American-born poet, & wife of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London.

March: Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds film poster Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" staring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy & Suzanne Pleshette is released.

April: Yugoslavia changes its official name to the "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" & Josip Broz Tito is named President for Life.

May: Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor uses fire hoses & police dogs on protestors in Birmingham, Alabama.

June: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space piloting Vostok 6 during a three day mission.

July: ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes introduced into service by the United States Postal Service. There are now over 42,000 Codes.

August: Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech to over 250,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

September: The United States Senate ratifies the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between the Soviet Union, United Kingdom & U.S.

October: Édith Piaf ('The Little Sparrow'), singer & one of France's greatest international stars dies of liver cancer aged 47.

November: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated & Texas Governor John B. Connally seriously wounded in Dallas, Texas.

December: The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program by the United States Air Force cancelled just after construction has begun.