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   In the year 1962 john Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm   

Feb 03   In the year 1962 president Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs   

Feb 03   In the year 1962 werner Bock, writer, dies   

Feb 04   In the year 1962 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances   

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   In the year 1962 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt   

Feb 05   French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence in the year 1962.   

Feb 05   In the year 1962 hSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial.   

Feb 05   Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   On this day in history 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   Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named in the year 1962.   

Feb 07   Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow in the year 1962.   

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 in the year 1962.   

Feb 08   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 09   On this day in history jamaica signs agreement to become independent   

Feb 09   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.   

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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Feb 15   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

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 in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 19   In the year 1962 albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77   

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

Feb 20   Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

Feb 20   John Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven 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   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   On this day in history birth of francesca Lia Block, American author   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls)   

Jan 04   Martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good) was born on this day in history.   

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

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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 06   Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57 in the year 1962.   

Jan 09   In the year 1962 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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 13   On this day in history ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42   

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

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