TV show host Graham Norton

Events in 1963 and 4-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Graham Norton

• France and West Germany sign treaty of cooperation ending four centuries of conflict (Jan. 22).
• Pope John XXIII dies (June 3), and is succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.
• British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns in the wake of an affair with Christine Keeler, a teenage showgirl who was also involved with the Soviet naval attaché (June).
• Washington-to-Moscow "hot line" communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war (Aug. 30). Background: cold war
• Kenya achieves independence.
• There are 15,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War
• 32 independent African nations establish the Organization for African Unity.

Birthday Graham Norton (4-4) in history

• Day 4-4 year 1818: Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
• Day 4-4 year 1841: President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
• Day 4-4 year 1905: Earthquake in Kangra, India, killed more than 20,000.
• Day 4-4 year 1945: The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
• Day 4-4 year 1949: The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
• Day 4-4 year 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
• Day 4-4 year 1973: The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
• Day 4-4 year 1979: Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
• Day 4-4 year 1981: Henry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.
• Day 4-4 year 1983: Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.