Historical Events In 1962

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

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   On this day in history president Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs   

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   In the year 1962 russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game   

Feb 04   In the year 1962 uS female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles   

Feb 04   On this day in history 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   On this day in history hSS-2 Sea King became the first helicopter to exceed 200 m.p.h. in an officially sanctioned trial.   

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

Feb 06   Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 07   Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 in the year 1962.   

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   Jamaica signs agreement to become independent on this day in history.   

Feb 09   In the year 1962 uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

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 in the year 1962.   

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   On this day in history lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV   

Feb 15   On this day in history 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   In the year 1962 bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85   

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   In the year 1962 halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of mark Gardner, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)   

Jan 03   Ulrike Lang, writer was born in the year 1962.   

Jan 03   In the year 1962 birth of francesca Lia Block, American author   

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   On this day in history birth of patrick Cassidy, LA Calif, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall)   

Jan 01   In the year 1962 diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76   

Jan 04   In the year 1962 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   LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

Jan 12   On this day in history 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   Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62 in the year 1962.   

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