Page 3: 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   John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm on this day in history.   

Feb 03   On this day in history president Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food &drugs   

Feb 03   Werner Bock, writer, dies in the year 1962.   

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

Feb 04   On this day in history russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game   

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

Feb 05   In the year 1962 suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed   

Feb 05   In the year 1962 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   In the year 1962 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   In the year 1962 president Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba   

Feb 08   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site in the year 1962.   

Feb 09   In the year 1962 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   In the year 1962 willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83   

Feb 11   On this day in history nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon   

Feb 12   In the year 1962 bus boycott starts in Macon GA   

Feb 14   In the year 1962 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   On this day in history vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72   

Feb 17   On this day in history 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 in the year 1962.   

Feb 19   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Feb 20   In the year 1962 halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64   

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

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Jan 03   On this day in history 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   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   On this day in history 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 in the year 1962.   

Jan 04   On this day in history death of hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)   

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   Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42 in the year 1962.   

Jan 15   On this day in history kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62   

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