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   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   Cuban Missile Crisis begins in the year 1962.   

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   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 in the year 1962.   

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) 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" in the year 1962.   

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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48   

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

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

Nov 01   On this day in history 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   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   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 in the year 1962.   

Nov 06   Edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA) in the year 1962.   

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

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

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 in the year 1962.   

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.