Historical Events In 1962

Feb 02   In the year 1962 8 of 9 planets align for first time in 400 years   

Feb 02   In the year 1962 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

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   On this day in history werner Bock, writer, dies   

Feb 04   On this day in history "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   US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles in the year 1962.   

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

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   Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed in the year 1962.   

Feb 05   Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º in the year 1962.   

Feb 06   On this day in history 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 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   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 on this day in history.   

Feb 10   Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 12   On this day in history bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

Feb 14   In the year 1962 lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV   

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

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

Feb 20   On this day in history john Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven.   

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Jan 03   Darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies) was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 03   Gavin Hastings, WLAF kicker (Scottish Claymores) was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 03   Mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 04   Joe Kleine, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls) was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 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   Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879) died in the year 1962.   

Jan 06   On this day in history jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57   

Jan 09   In the year 1962 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   Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42 on this day in history.   

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