The following events occurred in January 1963: January 1, 1963 (Tuesday) The #1 ranked (and unofficial college football champion) USC Trojans and the #2 Wisconsin Badgers met in the 1963 Rose Bowl before a crowd of 98,696 people. At the time, American college football's national championship was determined by the AP and UPI polls taken at the end of the regular season. The nation's first and second ranked teams happened to meet by virtue of being the respective champions of the Big Six Conference (now the Pac-12 Conference) and the Big Ten Conference. USC won 42-37, holding off a fourth quarter, 23-point rally by Wisconsin. Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), Japan's first serialized animated series based on the popular manga, was broadcast for the first time. It premiered on Japanese television station Fuji TV. The U.S. city of Chesapeake, Virginia, was created from a merger of the city of South Norfolk and the remainder of surrounding Norfolk County, Virginia. Died: Dr. Gilbert Bogle, 38, research scientist with the Australia's governmental scientific agency, CSIRO, found dead along with Margaret Chandler, the wife of a colleague. Both were apparently overcome by poisonous fumes in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney. Robert S. Kerr, 66, U.S. Senator for Oklahoma since 1948 and oil multi-millionaire, nicknamed "the uncrowned King of the Senate". Kerr, who had been in Doctors Hospital in Washington D.C. for three weeks from a "virus ailment", suffred a fatal heart attack "while sitting on a bed talking to his physician." January 2, 1963 (Wednesday) The Battle of Ap Bac in South Vietnam began, and was the first time that Viet Cong forces stood and fought against a major South Vietnamese attack. At the outset, Viet Cong ground fire shot down a United States Army UH-1 attack helicopter and four U.S. Army CH-21 transport helicopters as they arrived at their landing zone. Republic of Vietnam Air Force C-123 Provider transport planes dropped about 300 South Vietnamese paratroopers later in the day. Despite outnumbering the Viet Cong 4 to 1, and having American armor, artillery and helicopters, "what should have been an ARVN victory turned into an exercise of everything that was wrong with the South Vietnamese army". Seventeen people were killed in an explosion at the Home Packing Company in Terre Haute, Indiana. Died: Dick Powell, 58, American actor and singer (lymphoma). Powell's death from lymphatic cancer came a day