Page 15: Historical Events In 1962

Oct 17   Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship on this day in history.   

Oct 18   Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA in the year 1962.   

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

Oct 18   On this day in history uS launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon   

Oct 21   In the year 1962 mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open   

Oct 21   The 1962 Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) closes in the year 1962.   

Oct 22   On this day in history cuban Missile Crisis begins   

Oct 22   In the year 1962 jFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba   

Oct 22   JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis on this day in history.   

Oct 22   Nelson Mandella goes on trial for treason in South Africa on this day in history.   

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

Oct 24   In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins on this day in history.   

Oct 24   On this day in history u.S. Military Forces put on High Alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis,   

Oct 25   On this day in history 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)   

Oct 25   On this day in history american author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature   

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

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" in the year 1962.   

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

Oct 26   In the year 1962 hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67   

Oct 27   "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs in the year 1962.   

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

Oct 28   Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis in the year 1962.   

Oct 28   Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48 in the year 1962.   

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

Nov 01   In the year 1962 first ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched   

Nov 01   Greece enters the European Common Market in the year 1962.   

Nov 01   USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars on this day in history.   

Nov 01   On this day in history winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78   

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

Nov 02   On this day in history jFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled   

Nov 03   Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

Nov 06   In the year 1962 bART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote   

Nov 06   Edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA) in the year 1962.   

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 in the year 1962.   

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   Ulrike Lang, writer was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 03   Francesca Lia Block, American author was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 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   In the year 1962 birth of patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall)   

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 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   Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 died on this day in history.   

Jan 13   Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42 in the year 1962.   

Jan 15   On this day in history 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.