1963

Peelenium
26 October 1999

Playlist


 * 1) Jimmy Reed: 'Too Much'
 * 2) Bern Elliott & The Fenmen: 'Money'
 * 3) Beatles: 'I Saw Her Standing There'
 * 4) Lonnie Mack: 'Memphis'

Events


 * President John F. Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas, Texas
 * Country star Patsy Cline killed in plane creash
 * Beatles release their first and second LPs
 * Yugoslavia proclaimed a socialist republic under General Tito
 * Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold MacMillan as British Prime Minister
 * First episode of BBC's science-fiction series Dr. Who
 * First push-button telephone

Other

 * At the time, Peel was working at the Repubic Life National Insurance Company in Dallas. After Kennedy's assassination, he pretended to be a reporter for the lIverpool Echo and was present when Lee Harvey Oswald was introduced to the press.