Page 15: 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 in the year 1962.   

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

Oct 22   Cuban Missile Crisis begins in the year 1962.   

Oct 22   On this day in history 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 in the year 1962.   

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   110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda) on this day in history.   

Oct 25   On this day in history 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 in the year 1962.   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"   

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   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 in the year 1962.   

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

Oct 28   Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.   

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   Greece enters the European Common Market in the year 1962.   

Nov 01   USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars in the year 1962.   

Nov 01   Winter Haynes Watts, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

Nov 02   Felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Nov 02   JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled in the year 1962.   

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

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   Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC in the year 1962.   

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Jan 03   Darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1962 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   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   On this day in history 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   Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 in the year 1962.   

Jan 04   On this day in history death of hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)   

Jan 06   In the year 1962 jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57   

Jan 09   On this day in history leRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68   

Jan 12   On this day in history death of ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42   

Jan 13   Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42 on this day in history.   

Jan 15   In the year 1962 kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62   

Jan 16   In the year 1962 emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77