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 on this day in history.   

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

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

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

Feb 04   On this day in history 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   On this day in history jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71   

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

Feb 05   Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º on this day in history.   

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   President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba on this day in history.   

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

Feb 15   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Feb 19   Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77 in the year 1962.   

Feb 19   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)   

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   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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 01   Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 in the year 1962.   

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

Jan 06   Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 in the year 1962.   

Jan 09   On this day in history 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   Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42 on this day in history.   

Jan 15   On this day in history 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