Historical Events In 1962
Saturday, 21 May 2022
Feb 02 8 of 9 planets align for first time in 400 years in the year 1962.
Feb 02 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR in the year 1962.
Feb 03 John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm on this day in history.
Feb 03 On this day in history president Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs
Feb 03 Werner Bock, writer, dies in the year 1962.
Feb 04 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances in the year 1962.
Feb 04 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game in the year 1962.
Feb 04 In the year 1962 uS female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
Feb 04 US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt on this day in history.
Feb 05 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence in the year 1962.
Feb 05 On this day in history hSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial.
Feb 05 On this day in history jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71
Feb 05 On this day in history suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed
Feb 05 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º on this day in history.
Feb 06 On this day in history schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
Feb 07 Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow on this day in history.
Feb 07 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 on this day in history.
Feb 07 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba in the year 1962.
Feb 08 In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 09 In the year 1962 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 Nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon in the year 1962.
Feb 12 In the year 1962 bus boycott starts in Macon GA
Feb 14 On this day in history lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
Feb 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.
Feb 15 Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72 on this day in history.
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 in the year 1962.
Feb 19 On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 20 On this day in history halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64
Feb 20 John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven on this day in history.
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