Historical Events In 1962

Oct 17   In the year 1962 yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship   

Oct 18   Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA on this day in history.   

Oct 18   On this day in history jFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko   

Oct 18   US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon in the year 1962.   

Oct 21   On this day in history mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open   

Oct 21   On this day in history the 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) closes.   

Oct 22   Cuban Missile Crisis begins on this day in history.   

Oct 22   JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba on this day in history.   

Oct 22   In the year 1962 jFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis   

Oct 22   On this day in history nelson Mandella goes on trial for treason in South Africa   

Oct 23   On this day in history uSAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m   

Oct 24   In the year 1962 in Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins   

Oct 24   In the year 1962 u.S. Military Forces put on High Alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis,   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 american author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature   

Oct 25   Photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba is presented to the U.N. Security council by U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson on this day in history.   

Oct 25   Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" on this day in history.   

Oct 26   Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why" in the year 1962.   

Oct 26   On this day in history hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67   

Oct 27   On this day in history "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs   

Oct 27   Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

Oct 28   On this day in history khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis   

Oct 28   In the year 1962 pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48   

Oct 29   Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 in the year 1962.   

Nov 01   First ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched on this day in history.   

Nov 01   Greece enters the European Common Market on this day in history.   

Nov 01   On this day in history uSSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars   

Nov 01   Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78 in the year 1962.   

Nov 02   On this day in history felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80   

Nov 02   In the year 1962 jFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled   

Nov 03   In the year 1962 harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69   

Nov 06   BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote in the year 1962.   

Nov 06   Edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA) on this day in history.   

Nov 07   In the year 1962 eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC   

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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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 03   Mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins) was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 03   Ulrike Lang, writer was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 in the year 1962.   

Jan 12   Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 died in the year 1962.   

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