Page 3: Historical Events In 1962

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

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 on this day in history.   

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

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

Feb 04   In the year 1962 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt   

Feb 05   On this day in history french President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   On this day in history suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed   

Feb 05   On this day in history 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   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 on this day in history.   

Feb 09   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.   

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   On this day in history willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83   

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   In the year 1962 bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

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

Feb 15   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1962 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   On this day in history 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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Jan 03   On this day in history birth of darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies)   

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   Ulrike Lang, writer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1962 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   Martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good) was born in the year 1962.   

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   In the year 1962 jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57   

Jan 09   LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 in the year 1962.   

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   In the year 1962 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.