Page 3: Historical Events In 1962

Feb 02   On this day in history 8 of 9 planets align for first time in 400 years   

Feb 02   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR in the year 1962.   

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   On this day in history werner Bock, writer, dies   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 04   US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt in the year 1962.   

Feb 05   On this day in history french President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence   

Feb 05   HSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial on this day in history.   

Feb 05   On this day in history jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71   

Feb 05   In the year 1962 suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed   

Feb 05   In the year 1962 sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º   

Feb 06   In the year 1962 schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named   

Feb 07   On this day in history arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow   

Feb 07   On this day in history 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   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 09   In the year 1962 jamaica signs agreement to become independent   

Feb 09   On this day in history 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 in the year 1962.   

Feb 11   In the year 1962 nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon   

Feb 12   Bus boycott starts in Macon GA in the year 1962.   

Feb 14   Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV in the year 1962.   

Feb 15   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.   

Feb 15   In the year 1962 vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72   

Feb 17   Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

Feb 18   In the year 1962 france & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war   

Feb 19   Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

Feb 19   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.   

Feb 20   Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64 in the year 1962.   

Feb 20   In the year 1962 john Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1962 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   On this day in history birth of ulrike Lang, writer   

Jan 03   Francesca Lia Block, American author was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 birth of joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls)   

Jan 04   Martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good) was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 04   Patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall) was born on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1962 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 12   In the year 1962 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 in the year 1962.   

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