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   On this day in history jFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko   

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

Oct 21   On this day in history mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open   

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

Oct 22   Cuban Missile Crisis begins on this day in history.   

Oct 22   JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba in the year 1962.   

Oct 22   JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis on this day in history.   

Oct 22   Nelson Mandella goes on trial for treason in South Africa on this day in history.   

Oct 23   In the year 1962 uSAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m   

Oct 24   In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins in the year 1962.   

Oct 24   In the year 1962 u.S. Military Forces put on High Alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis,   

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

Oct 25   American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature in the year 1962.   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba is presented to the U.N. Security council by U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 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" in the year 1962.   

Oct 26   On this day in history hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67   

Oct 27   "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs in the year 1962.   

Oct 27   Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58 in the year 1962.   

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   In the year 1962 naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77   

Nov 01   First ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched in the year 1962.   

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

Nov 01   USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars on this day in history.   

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

Nov 02   In the year 1962 felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80   

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

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

Nov 06   BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote on this day in history.   

Nov 06   On this day in history edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA)   

Nov 07   On this day in history 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   Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1962 birth of ulrike Lang, writer   

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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879) died in the year 1962.   

Jan 06   In the year 1962 jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57   

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

Jan 12   On this day in history death of ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42   

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

Jan 15   On this day in history kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62   

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