Historical Events In 1962

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

Feb 02   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR in the year 1962.  

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

Feb 03   On this day in history president Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs  

Feb 03   In the year 1962 werner Bock, writer, dies  

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

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

Feb 04   US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles on this day in history.  

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

Feb 05   In the year 1962 french President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence  

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

Feb 05   On this day in history 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   Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named on this day in history.  

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

Feb 07   In the year 1962 gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298  

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

Feb 08   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.  

Feb 09   Jamaica signs agreement to become independent in the year 1962.  

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

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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.  

Feb 12   Bus boycott starts in Macon GA in the year 1962.  

Feb 14   Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV on this day in history.  

Feb 15   In the year 1962 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   On this day in history bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85  

Feb 18   France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war in the year 1962.  

Feb 19   Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

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   John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven on this day in history.  

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Jan 03   Darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   In the year 1962 birth of gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores)  

Jan 03   Mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins) was born on this day in history.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1962 diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76  

Jan 04   In the year 1962 death of hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)  

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

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

Jan 12   On this day in history death of ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42  

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

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.