Historical Events In 1962
Monday, 19 April 2021
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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