Page 15: 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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history cuban Missile Crisis begins   

Oct 22   In the year 1962 jFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba   

Oct 22   In the year 1962 jFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis   

Oct 22   On this day in history nelson Mandella goes on trial for treason in South Africa   

Oct 23   USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m in the year 1962.   

Oct 24   In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins in the year 1962.   

Oct 24   U.S. Military Forces put on High Alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis, on this day in history.   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)   

Oct 25   In the year 1962 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 on this day in history.   

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   Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why" in the year 1962.   

Oct 26   On this day in history hattie McDaniel actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67   

Oct 27   "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs on this day in history.   

Oct 27   Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

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

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

Oct 29   In the year 1962 naphtali Siegfried Salomon, composer, dies at 77   

Nov 01   First ever spacecraft to Mars, Mars 1, launched on this day in history.   

Nov 01   In the year 1962 greece enters the European Common Market   

Nov 01   On this day in history uSSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars   

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

Nov 02   In the year 1962 felice Lattuada, composer, dies at 80   

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

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

Nov 06   On this day in history 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   In the year 1962 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   On this day in history birth of mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of ulrike Lang, writer   

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   In the year 1962 birth of martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 birth of patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall)   

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

Jan 04   Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879) died on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1962 death of ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42   

Jan 13   In the year 1962 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 on this day in history.   

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