Page 3: 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 on this day in history.   

Feb 03   In the year 1962 john Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm   

Feb 03   President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

Feb 04   On this day in history uS male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt   

Feb 05   French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence in the year 1962.   

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feb 07   Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   In the year 1962 president Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba   

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

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   In the year 1962 nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon   

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

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

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

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

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

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   On this day in history birth of darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies)   

Jan 03   Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1962 birth of mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)   

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

Jan 03   Francesca Lia Block, American author was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   On this day in history death of hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)   

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

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   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 in the year 1962.