Page 3: Historical Events In 1962

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

Feb 02   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR on this day in history.   

Feb 03   On this day in history 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   Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game in the year 1962.   

Feb 04   In the year 1962 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   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   On this day in history jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales), dies at 71   

Feb 05   Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed in the year 1962.   

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 on this day in history.   

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   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   On this day in history jamaica signs agreement to become independent   

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 in the year 1962.   

Feb 10   On this day in history willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83   

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   Bus boycott starts in Macon GA in the year 1962.   

Feb 14   On this day in history lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV   

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64   

Feb 20   In the year 1962 john Glenn becomes the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, aboard the spacecraft Friendship Seven.   

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Jan 03   In the year 1962 birth of darren Daulton, US baseball catcher (Phila Phillies)   

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

Jan 04   Martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good) was born in the year 1962.   

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   In the year 1962 jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter (France, N Africa), dies at 57   

Jan 09   LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77