Historical Events In 1962

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

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

Feb 03   On this day in history john Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm  

Feb 03   In the year 1962 president Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs  

Feb 03   On this day in history werner Bock, writer, dies  

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

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

Feb 04   In the year 1962 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   On this day in history suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed  

Feb 05   Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º in the year 1962.  

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

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

Feb 07   On this day in history gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298  

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

Feb 08   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  

Feb 09   On this day in history jamaica signs agreement to become independent  

Feb 09   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 10   Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 12   In the year 1962 bus boycott starts in Macon GA  

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

Feb 15   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site  

Feb 15   In the year 1962 vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72  

Feb 17   Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

Feb 20   Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

Feb 20   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores)  

Jan 03   Mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins) was born in the year 1962.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of ulrike Lang, writer  

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

Jan 04   Joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   On this day in history diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76  

Jan 04   Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879) died in the year 1962.  

Jan 06   On this day in history jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57  

Jan 09   In the year 1962 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 in the year 1962.  

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.