The following events occurred in March 1963:
March 7, 1963: Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building) opens in New York
March 21, 1963: Alcatraz prison closes
March 12, 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald buys a rifle by mail order
The following events occurred in January 1963:
January 29, 1963: American poet Robert Frost dies at 88
January 13, 1963: Togo's President Sylvanus Olympio killed while trying to flee to U.S. Embassy
January 23, 1963: British MI5 agent Kim Philby flees to USSR
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