Historical Events In 1962

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

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

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 on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history jFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba  

Oct 22   JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis in the year 1962.  

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 the year 1962 in Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins  

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

Oct 25   110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda) on this day in history.  

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

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   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   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 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Nov 03   Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69 on this day in history.  

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

Nov 06   Edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA) on this day in history.  

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

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Jan 03   Darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies) was born in the year 1962.  

Jan 03   Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores) was born in the year 1962.  

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

Jan 03   In the year 1962 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   On this day in history birth of patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall)  

Jan 01   Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 in the year 1962.  

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

Jan 13   On this day in history ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42  

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

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