Historical Events In 1962

Feb 02   On this day in history 8 of 9 planets align for first time in 400 years   

Feb 02   In the year 1962 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

Feb 03   John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 03   Werner Bock, writer, dies in the year 1962.   

Feb 04   "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances in the year 1962.   

Feb 04   On this day in history russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game   

Feb 04   US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles in the year 1962.   

Feb 04   US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 05   In the year 1962 hSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial.   

Feb 05   On this day in history jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71   

Feb 05   Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed on this day in history.   

Feb 05   Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º on this day in history.   

Feb 06   Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named in the year 1962.   

Feb 07   Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1962 jamaica signs agreement to become independent   

Feb 09   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 10   In the year 1962 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 in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 14   Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 15   Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72 in the year 1962.   

Feb 17   Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85 in the year 1962.   

Feb 18   France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war on this day in history.   

Feb 19   In the year 1962 albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77   

Feb 19   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 20   On this day in history halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64   

Feb 20   John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven 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   Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)   

Jan 03   In the year 1962 birth of ulrike Lang, writer   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of francesca Lia Block, American author   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 birth of joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls)   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 birth of martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)   

Jan 04   Patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   On this day in history diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76   

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   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 on this day in history.   

Jan 15   Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62 on this day in history.   

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