Oct 21 The 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) closes.

Oct 01 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope

Oct 25 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)

Oct 25 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"

Oct 25 Photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba is presented to the U.N. Security council by U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.

Oct 09 Lulu McConnell comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 80

Oct 01 James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi

Oct 04 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300 m

Oct 12 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology

Oct 11 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII

Oct 18 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon

Jul 12 Rolling Stones first performance (Marquee Club, London)

Jul 17 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)

Jul 10 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia

Jul 28 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean

Jul 03 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5)

Jul 17 Senate rejects medicare for the aged

Jul 28 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa

Jul 06 William Faulkner author, inventor of Yoknapatawpha Co, dies at 64

Jul 04 Rex Bell cowboy (Cowboys & Injuns), dies at 56

Jul 01 Rwanda and Burundi become independent countries

Jul 10 Telstar, first geosynchronous communications satellite, launched

Jul 11 The first transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)

Jul 27 Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia

Jul 10 Telstar, the first private communications satellite, launches

Jul 27 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission

Jul 05 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule

Jul 22 The first US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off

Jul 03 The birth of Tom Cruise, American actor

Jul 21 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga

Jul 01 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)

Jul 31 Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) arrives in South Vietnam

Jul 31 Federation of Malaysia formed

Jul 07 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races

Jul 11 Fred Baldasare is first to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)

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