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.

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February

The fourth version of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival takes place.

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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).

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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

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

Deaths

8 December – Juana Rosa Aguirre (b. 1877)

References

Years of the 20th century in Chile

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