Historical Events In 1962

Feb 02   8 of 9 planets align for first time in 400 years in the year 1962.  

Feb 02   On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR  

Feb 03   John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm on this day in history.  

Feb 03   President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs in the year 1962.  

Feb 03   Werner Bock, writer, dies on this day in history.  

Feb 04   On this day in history "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances  

Feb 04   Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game in the year 1962.  

Feb 04   On this day in history uS female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles  

Feb 04   In the year 1962 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt  

Feb 05   French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence on this day in history.  

Feb 05   HSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial on this day in history.  

Feb 05   Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71 in the year 1962.  

Feb 05   In the year 1962 suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed  

Feb 05   In the year 1962 sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º  

Feb 06   On this day in history schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named  

Feb 07   Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow in the year 1962.  

Feb 07   Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 in the year 1962.  

Feb 07   President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba in the year 1962.  

Feb 08   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.  

Feb 09   Jamaica signs agreement to become independent on this day in history.  

Feb 09   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.  

Feb 10   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 12   On this day in history bus boycott starts in Macon GA  

Feb 14   On this day in history lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV  

Feb 15   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  

Feb 15   On this day in history vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72  

Feb 17   In the year 1962 bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85  

Feb 18   On this day in history france & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war  

Feb 19   On this day in history albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77  

Feb 19   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.  

Feb 20   In the year 1962 halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64  

Feb 20   In the year 1962 john Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven.  

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

Jan 03   Ulrike Lang, writer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   Francesca Lia Block, American author was born in the year 1962.  

Jan 04   Joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls) was born in the year 1962.  

Jan 04   Martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good) was born in the year 1962.  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 06   Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 in the year 1962.  

Jan 09   On this day in history leRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68  

Jan 12   Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 died on this day in history.  

Jan 13   In the year 1962 ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42  

Jan 15   On this day in history kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62  

Jan 16   Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77 on this day in history.