Page 3: Historical Events In 1962

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

Feb 02   On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

Feb 03   On this day in history john Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm   

Feb 03   President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs on this day in history.   

Feb 03   On this day in history werner Bock, writer, dies   

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

Feb 04   Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game in the year 1962.   

Feb 04   On this day in history uS female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles   

Feb 04   In the year 1962 uS male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt   

Feb 05   In the year 1962 french President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence   

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

Feb 05   On this day in history sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º   

Feb 06   On this day in history schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named   

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

Feb 07   Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   In the year 1962 president Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba   

Feb 08   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Feb 09   In the year 1962 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   In the year 1962 bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 15   Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72 in the year 1962.   

Feb 17   Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85 in the year 1962.   

Feb 18   France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war in the year 1962.   

Feb 19   On this day in history albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77   

Feb 19   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

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

Jan 03   Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins) was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 03   In the year 1962 birth of ulrike Lang, writer   

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   On this day in history birth of martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)   

Jan 04   Patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall) was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 01   Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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

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

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   In the year 1962 ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42   

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