Page 3: Historical Events In 1962

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

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

Feb 03   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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   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 in the year 1962.   

Feb 05   In the year 1962 jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71   

Feb 05   Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed in the year 1962.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1962.   

Feb 10   Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 in the year 1962.   

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

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 in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 19   On this day in history albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77   

Feb 19   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Feb 20   Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64 in the year 1962.   

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   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   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   Joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls) was born in the year 1962.   

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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 01   In the year 1962 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   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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77