Page 3: Historical Events In 1962

Feb 02   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR.   

Feb 03   John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm   

Feb 03   President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs   

Feb 03   Werner Bock, writer, dies   

Feb 04   "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances   

Feb 04   Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game   

Feb 04   US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles   

Feb 04   US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt.   

Feb 05   French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence   

Feb 05   HSS-2 Sea King became the inaugural helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial.   

Feb 05   Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71   

Feb 05   Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed.   

Feb 05   Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16º.   

Feb 06   Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named   

Feb 07   Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow.   

Feb 07   Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany results in the deaths of 298   

Feb 07   President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba   

Feb 08   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 09   Jamaica signs agreement to become independent   

Feb 09   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.   

Feb 10   Captured American U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is released by the U.S.S.R. in exchange for a Soviet spy held by the U.S.   

Feb 10   Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83   

Feb 11   Nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon   

Feb 12   In this year, Bus boycott starts in Macon GA.   

Feb 14   Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV   

Feb 15   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 15   Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak and Dagger), dies at 72   

Feb 17   Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85   

Feb 18   France and Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war.   

Feb 19   Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77   

Feb 19   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 20   Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64   

Feb 20   John Glenn is recorded as becoming the inaugural U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven   

Feb 20   John Glenn, the American astronaut, orbits the Earth three times   

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Jan 03   Darren daulton: Us baseball catcher (phila phillies)   

Jan 03   Gavin hastings: Wlaf kicker (scottish claymores)   

Jan 03   Mark gardner: Us baseball player (florida marlins)   

Jan 03   Ulrike lang: Writer   

Jan 03   Francesca lia block: American author   

Jan 04   Joe kleine: Nba center (phoenix suns, chicago bulls)   

Jan 04   Martin mcaloon: Rocker (prefab sprout-2 wheels good)   

Jan 04   Patrick cassidy: La calif, actor/composer (fever pitch, off the wall)   

Jan 01   Diego martínez barrio: Spanish president (1939),   

Jan 04   Hans lammers: German ss officer (b. 1879)   

Jan 06   Jacob "jaap" nanninga: Dutch painter (france, n africa),   

Jan 09   Leroy b shield: Us pianist/composer (union pacific suite),   

Jan 12   Ernie kovacs: Comedian (ernie kovacs show), killed in auto crash at 42   

Jan 13   Ernie kovacs: Comedian,    

Jan 15   Kenneth mackenna: Actor (men without women),   

Jan 16   Emanuel stickelberger: Swiss writer (holbein in england),