Page 3: Historical Events In 1962

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

Feb 02   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR in the year 1962.   

Feb 03   John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm on this day in history.   

Feb 03   President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 04   "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history uS male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt   

Feb 05   French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1962 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   Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter &Saturn within 16º on this day in history.   

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

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

Feb 07   In the year 1962 gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298   

Feb 07   On this day in history president Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba   

Feb 08   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 09   Jamaica signs agreement to become independent on this day in history.   

Feb 09   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Feb 10   In the year 1962 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   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 on this day in history.   

Feb 12   Bus boycott starts in Macon GA in the year 1962.   

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   In the year 1962 bruno Walter, symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), dies at 85   

Feb 18   On this day in history 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   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Feb 20   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1962.   

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

Jan 01   On this day in history diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76   

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   LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68 in the year 1962.   

Jan 12   Ernie Kovacs, comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 died in the year 1962.   

Jan 13   On this day in history 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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 16   Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Holbein in England), dies at 77 on this day in history.