Historical Events In 1962

Feb 02   8 of 9 planets align for first time in 400 years on this day in history.   

Feb 02   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR in the year 1962.   

Feb 03   On this day in history john Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm   

Feb 03   President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs in the year 1962.   

Feb 03   On this day in history werner Bock, writer, dies   

Feb 04   In the year 1962 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances   

Feb 04   Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game on this day in history.   

Feb 04   US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles on this day in history.   

Feb 04   On this day in history uS male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt   

Feb 05   French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence on this day in history.   

Feb 05   In the year 1962 hSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial.   

Feb 05   Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71 in the year 1962.   

Feb 05   Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed in the year 1962.   

Feb 05   Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º on this day in history.   

Feb 06   Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named on this day in history.   

Feb 07   On this day in history arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow   

Feb 07   Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 in the year 1962.   

Feb 07   President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba in the year 1962.   

Feb 08   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 09   On this day in history jamaica signs agreement to become independent   

Feb 09   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 10   On this day in history captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the U.S.S.R. in exchange for a Soviet spy held by the U.S.   

Feb 10   Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Feb 11   In the year 1962 nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon   

Feb 12   On this day in history bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

Feb 14   On this day in history lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV   

Feb 15   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 15   On this day in history vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72   

Feb 17   On this day in history bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85   

Feb 18   In the year 1962 france & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war   

Feb 19   Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

Feb 19   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Feb 20   In the year 1962 halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64   

Feb 20   John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven in the year 1962.   

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Jan 03   On this day in history birth of darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores)   

Jan 03   Mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Ulrike Lang, writer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Francesca Lia Block, American author was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 04   Joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls) was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 birth of patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall)   

Jan 01   Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879) died on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 in the year 1962.   

Jan 09   LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 in the year 1962.   

Jan 12   Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 died on this day in history.   

Jan 13   Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42 in the year 1962.   

Jan 15   Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62 on this day in history.   

Jan 16   In the year 1962 emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77