Historical Events In 1962

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

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

Oct 18   JFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko in the year 1962.   

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

Oct 21   Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open in the year 1962.   

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

Oct 22   In the year 1962 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 in the year 1962.   

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

Oct 23   In the year 1962 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   U.S. Military Forces put on High Alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in the year 1962.   

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   In the year 1962 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   On this day in history beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"   

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

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

Oct 27   Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58 in the year 1962.   

Oct 28   In the year 1962 khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis   

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

Oct 29   Naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

Nov 01   On this day in history first ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched   

Nov 01   On this day in history greece enters the European Common Market   

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

Nov 01   In the year 1962 winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78   

Nov 02   Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80 in the year 1962.   

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

Nov 03   On this day in history 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   On this day in history edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA)   

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

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

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

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   In the year 1962 birth of francesca Lia Block, American author   

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   On this day in history birth of patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall)   

Jan 01   On this day in history diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76   

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   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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 16   Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77 on this day in history.