Historical Events In 1962
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
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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