title: 1963 in Chile
text: # 1963 in Chile
  
  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.
  
  ### February
  
  * The fourth version of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival takes place.
  
  ### 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).
  
  ### 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)
  