Page 15: Historical Events In 1962

Oct 17   Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship in the year 1962.   

Oct 18   On this day in history dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA   

Oct 18   JFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko in the year 1962.   

Oct 18   US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon in the year 1962.   

Oct 21   Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open in the year 1962.   

Oct 21   On this day in history the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) closes.   

Oct 22   In the year 1962 cuban Missile Crisis begins   

Oct 22   JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba on this day in history.   

Oct 22   In the year 1962 jFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis   

Oct 22   Nelson Mandella goes on trial for treason in South Africa in the year 1962.   

Oct 23   USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m on this day in history.   

Oct 24   In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins on this day in history.   

Oct 24   U.S. Military Forces put on High Alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, on this day in history.   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 american author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature   

Oct 25   On this day in history photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba is presented to the U.N. Security council by U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.   

Oct 25   On this day in history stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"   

Oct 26   Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why" on this day in history.   

Oct 26   Hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67 in the year 1962.   

Oct 27   On this day in history "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs   

Oct 27   On this day in history enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58   

Oct 28   Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis in the year 1962.   

Oct 28   In the year 1962 pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48   

Oct 29   Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

Nov 01   In the year 1962 first ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched   

Nov 01   Greece enters the European Common Market in the year 1962.   

Nov 01   On this day in history uSSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars   

Nov 01   Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1962.   

Nov 02   Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80 in the year 1962.   

Nov 02   JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled on this day in history.   

Nov 03   In the year 1962 harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69   

Nov 06   On this day in history bART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote   

Nov 06   In the year 1962 edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA)   

Nov 07   In the year 1962 eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC   

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Jan 03   In the year 1962 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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of francesca Lia Block, American author   

Jan 04   Joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 birth of martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)   

Jan 04   Patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall) was born in the year 1962.   

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

Jan 04   In the year 1962 death of hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)   

Jan 06   Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   On this day in history leRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 15   Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62 in the year 1962.   

Jan 16   Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77 on this day in history.