Page 15: Historical Events In 1962

Oct 17   On this day in history yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship   

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

Oct 23   USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m in the year 1962.   

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

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   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   Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" on this day in history.   

Oct 26   On this day in history beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"   

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 27   In the year 1962 enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58   

Oct 28   In the year 1962 khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis   

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

Oct 29   Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 in the year 1962.   

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   In the year 1962 uSSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars   

Nov 01   On this day in history winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78   

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

Nov 02   On this day in history jFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled   

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

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

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 in the year 1962.   

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Jan 03   Darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   Mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins) was born in the year 1962.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1962 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   In the year 1962 diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76   

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   LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 in the year 1962.   

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   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