Page 15: Historical Events In 1962

Oct 17   In the year 1962 yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship   

Oct 18   In the year 1962 dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA   

Oct 18   In the year 1962 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   Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open in the year 1962.   

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

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

Oct 22   In the year 1962 jFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba   

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

Oct 22   In the year 1962 nelson Mandella goes on trial for treason in South Africa   

Oct 23   On this day in history 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   110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda) in the year 1962.   

Oct 25   American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature on this day in history.   

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

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" in the year 1962.   

Oct 26   Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why" in the year 1962.   

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

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

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

Oct 28   On this day in history khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis   

Oct 28   Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48 in the year 1962.   

Oct 29   On this day in history naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77   

Nov 01   On this day in history first ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched   

Nov 01   In the year 1962 greece enters the European Common Market   

Nov 01   USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars in the year 1962.   

Nov 01   In the year 1962 winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78   

Nov 02   Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Nov 02   JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled in the year 1962.   

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 in the year 1962.   

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

Nov 07   Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1962 birth of gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of ulrike Lang, writer   

Jan 03   Francesca Lia Block, American author was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 birth of joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls)   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 01   On this day in history diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76   

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 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   In the year 1962 death of ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42   

Jan 13   Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42 on this day in history.   

Jan 15   In the year 1962 kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62   

Jan 16   On this day in history emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77