1962 Jan 1, Samoa became independent from New Zealand. Malietoa Tanumafili II nursed Samoa to independence and presided as head of state jointly for 16 months and thereafter on his own for 43 years.
(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1842.htm)(SFCM, 10/14/01, p.45)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.101)
1962 Jan 3, Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.
(MC, 1/3/02)
1962 Jan 4, The 1st automated (unmanned) subway train ran in NYC.
(MC, 1/4/02)
1962 Jan 10, Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroyed 7 villages and killed 3,500.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1962 Jan 12, The United States resumed aid to the Laotian regime.
(HN, 1/12/99)
1962 Jan 13, Ernie Kovacs (b.1919), comedian and TV star, died at age 42 in a car crash in west Los Angeles. ''Nothing in moderation'' was his credo and appeared on his epitaph.
(AP, 1/13/98)(www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/books/nothing-in-moderation.html?scp=4)
1962 Jan 18, The U.S. sprayed foliage with pesticide in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas.
(HN, 1/18/99)
1962 Jan 21, Snow fell in the SF Bay Area and accumulated to about 3 inches in Daly City.
(SFEM, 12/22/96, p.20)(GDCH, 1986, p.14)
1962 Jan 23, British spy Kim Philby defected to USSR.
(MC, 1/23/02)
1962 Jan 23, Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) became the first African-American elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0732697/bio)
1962 Jan 26, Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declared Chubby Checker's "Twist" is impure & banned it from all Catholic schools.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1962 Jan 26, The United States launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon, but the probe missed its target by some 22,000 miles.
(AP, 1/26/98)
1962 Jan 26, Charles "Lucky" Luciano (65), NYC Mafia gangster, died.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1962 Jan 27, The SF Bay Area hosted the Chubby Checker Twist Party at the Cow Palace. 17,000 fans made it the 1st big rock concert in Bay Area history.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.D1)
1962 Jan 28, Elliot Joslin (b.1869), American pioneering diabetes researcher, died. He had argued that controlling the level of glucose in a person’s bloodstream was the key to managing type 2 diabetes.
(www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1848826&pageindex=1)
1962 Jan 30, Two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1962 Jan 31, At the Eighth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OAS, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, ministers suspended Cuba’s membership.
(www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/Cuba79eng/intro.htm)(Econ, 4/11/09, p.34)
1962 Jan, The US Navy SEAL (Sea Air Land) force was formed with personnel from underwater demolition teams.
(www.seal.navy.mil/seal/abo_history.asp)
1962 Feb 3, President John F. Kennedy banned all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs.
(HN, 2/3/99)
1962 Feb 4, Russian newspaper Izvestia reported baseball is an old Russian game.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1962 Feb 5, French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algeria's independence.
(AP, 2/5/97)
1962 Feb 5, Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn aligned within a 16 degree arc.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1962 Feb 5, Jacques Ibert (71), French composer (Escales), died.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1962 Feb 7, Sam Snead won the LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1962 Feb 7, President Kennedy began the blockade of Cuba.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1962 Feb 8, The U.S. Defense Department reported the creation of the Military Assistance Command in South Vietnam.
(HN, 2/8/98)
1962 Feb 9, An agreement was signed to make Jamaica an independent nation within the British Commonwealth later in the year.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1962 Feb 10, The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1962 Feb 12, Pres. Kennedy commuted the death sentence of Jimmie Henderson, a Navy seaman, to confinement for life.
(AP, 7/29/08)
1962 Feb 12, A bus boycott started in Macon, Georgia.
(MC, 2/12/02)
1962 Feb 14, First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.
(AP, 2/14/98)
1962 Feb 17, Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin."
(MC, 2/17/02)
1962 Feb 17, Bruno Walter (85), symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), died.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1962 Feb 18, Robert F. Kennedy said that U.S. troops would stay in Vietnam until Communism was defeated.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1962 Feb 18, France & Algerian Moslems negotiated a truce to end 7 year war. [see Mar 18]
(MC, 2/18/02)
1962 Feb 20, U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the earth. Launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Glenn made three 90-minute orbits of the earth in Friendship 7, radioing down to Earth, "Oh, that view is tremendous!" The mission also provided important information about what it was like for an astronaut to be weightless for a long period of time. When the ship's automatic altitude control system began to fail, Glenn, a decorated World War II pilot, took manual control for the rest of the flight. During Friendship 7's approach to Earth, Glenn saw some flaming material breaking off the capsule, but the parachute opened and the capsule landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. It was some time later that NASA mission control determined that the sparks were crystallized water vapor released by Friendship 7's air-conditioning system. Friendship 7's flight lasted four hours and 56 minutes.
(AP, 2/19/98)(HNPD, 2/20/99)(MC, 2/20/02)
1962 Feb 22, A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks was turned down by the U.S.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1962 Feb 24, New York police seized $20 million worth of heroin.
(HN, 2/24/98)
1962 Feb 25, Maria Ludovica De Angelis (b.1880) died in Argentina. She helped expand hospital services for children. In 2004 she was beatified by Pope John Paul VI.
(AP, 10/3/04)
1962 Feb 26, Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." premiered in NYC.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1962 Feb 26, Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scored 67 points vs. New York.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1962 Feb 26, US Supreme court disallowed race separation on public transportation.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1962 Feb 26, After becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn told a joint meeting of Congress, "Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge have always paid dividends in the long run."
(AP, 2/26/02)
1962 Feb 27, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem was unharmed as two planes bombed the presidential palace in Saigon. The 1st US national was killed. Although Diem had shortcomings as a leader, he had led South Vietnam for eight years and at the time of his death was attempting to deal with Buddhist factionalism.
(HN, 2/27/98)(MC, 2/27/02)
1962 Feb, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Deputy Defense Sec. Roswell Gilpatric approved a plan to "lure or provoke Castro, or an uncontrollable subordinate, into an overt hostile reaction against the US."
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A12)
1962 Feb, The UN’s Intergovernmental Committee, the governing body of the World Food Program (WFP), held its first session. Addeke Boerma was appointed as WFP's first Executive Director in April.
(Econ, 3/20/10, p.52)(www.wfp.org/about/corporate-information/history)
1962 Feb, An organization of African states was established by leaders of 20 nations meeting in Lagos, Nigeria.
(PCh, 1992, p.983)
1962 Mar 1, A US Army memorandum was put out titled "Possible Actions to Provoke, Harass or Disrupt Cuba."
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A4)
1962 Mar 1, US-British nuclear test experiment took place in Nevada.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1962 Mar 1, The first Kmart, a 60,000-sq.-ft. store, opened in Garden City, Mich. It was originally know as Kresge's, a five and dime store founded in 1899. The company was modernized under Harry B. Cunningham and re-opened as Kmart less than 30 miles from Kresge's headquarters in downtown Detroit.
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n4_v31/ai_11875088/)
1962 Mar 1, American Airlines 707 plunged nose 1st into Jamaica Bay, NY, killing 95.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1962 Mar 1, Uganda became a self-governing country under PM Benedicto Kiwanuka.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda)
1962 Mar 2, Jon Bon Jovi (John Bongiovi) was born. (singer, musician, songwriter: You Give Love a Bad Name, Living on a Prayer)
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1962 Mar 2, Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain (d.1999 at 63) scored 100 points and broke an NBA record as the Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks 169-147 in Hershey Pa. before 4,124 fans. Chamberlain broke NBA marks for the most field goal attempts (63), most field goals made (36), most free throws made (28), most points in a half (59), most field goal attempts in a half (37), most field goals made in a half (22), and most field goal attempts in one quarter (21). The 316 total points scored tied an NBA record. The basketball used for the game was stolen by Kerry Ryman (14) after he shook Chamberlain’s hand. Ryman’s ball was auctioned in 2000 for $551,844.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(SFC, 10/13/99, p.A13)(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A2)
1962 Mar 2, JFK announced US will resume above ground nuclear testing.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1962 Mar 3, British Antarctic Territory was formed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1962 Mar 4, AEC announced 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1962 Mar 5, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that airports must compensate people living in the near vicinity for noise and vibrations.
(HN, 3/5/98)
1962 Mar 6, US promised Thailand assistance against "communist" aggression.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1962 Mar 9, US "advisors" in South-Vietnam joined the fight.
(MC, 3/9/02)
1962 Mar 9, Egyptian Pres. Nasser declared Gaza belongs to Palestinians.
(MC, 3/9/02)
1962 Mar 10, The Phillies baseball club left the Jack Tar Harrison Hotel due to its refusal to admit black players, and moved to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida.
(http://tinyurl.com/mdtvxu)
1962 Mar 13, John F. Kennedy met Cameroon President Ahmadou Ahidjo.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1962 Mar 13, The US Joint Chiefs of Staff endorsed a series of ideas as "suitable for planning purposes" aimed at discrediting Fidel Castro.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A4)
1962 Mar 15, Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premiered in NYC for 580 performances.
(MC, 3/15/02)
1962 Mar 16, US Lockheed Super-Constellation disappeared above Pacific Ocean and 167 were killed.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1962 Mar 17, Moscow asked the U.S. to pull out of South Vietnam.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1962 Mar 18, France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce, which took effect the next day.
(HN, 3/18/98)(AP, 3/18/08)
1962 Mar 19, Relative calm returned to Algeria after cease-fire, ending 7 years of warfare between French and Algerian Nationalists.
(AP, 3/19/03)
1962 Mar 20, C. Wright Mills (45), US sociologist (Power Elite), died.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1962 Mar 21, A female black bear was taken aboard a B-58 bomber out of Edwards Air Force Base in California, flown up to 35,000 feet at a supersonic speed of 850 miles per hour, and ejected from the bomber in a specially made capsule. She landed safely, and became the first living creature to survive a parachute jump from a plane flying faster than sound.
(www.worldhop.com/Journals/J1/Bear1.html)
1962 Mar 21, Dutch RC Bishop Willem Bekkers declared himself in favor of birth control. The church in the Netherlands tried to promote a more liberal view of birth control. But their view did not prevail.
(http://tinyurl.com/lpxof8)
1962 Mar 23, Pres. John F. Kennedy visited San Francisco and spoke at UC Berkeley on the 100th anniversary of the Morrill Act. “For this university and so many other universities across our country owe their birth to the most extraordinary piece of legislation this country has ever adopted, and that is the Morrill Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln in the darkest and most uncertain days of the Civil War, which set before the country the opportunity to build the great land grant colleges of which this is so distinguished a part. Six years later this university obtained its Charter.”
(http://tinyurl.com/6fbdog)
1962 Mar 23, William DeWitt bought the Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1962 Mar 24, Emile Griffith knocked out Benny Paret (b.1937) in the 12th round at Madison Square Garden. 10 days later on April 3 Paret died from the beating. Referee Ruby Goldstein was blamed by many for not stopping the fight soon enough.
(www.ringsidereport.com/vitotrabucco972004.htm)(SFC, 4/20/05, p.E1)
1962 Mar 25, French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud was arrested.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1962 Mar 25, Auguste Piccard (78), Swiss explorer, balloonist, died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1962 Mar 26, The U.S. Supreme Court in Baker vs. Carr gave federal courts the power to order reapportionment of seats in a state legislature, a decision that eventually led to the doctrine of "one man, one vote." It arose from a Tennessee case in which Carr was the state attorney general.
(AP, 3/26/02)(SFC, 8/1/03, p.A27)
1962 Mar 28, The U.S. Air Force announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1962 Mar 29, Jack Paar hosted NBC's "Tonight" show for the final time. He was succeeded by Johnny Carson (Oct 1) who stayed to 1992.
(SFEC, 2/23/96, z-1 p.2)(AP, 3/29/97)
1962 Mar 29, Cuba opened the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1962 Mar 30, M.C. Hammer, [Stanley Kirk Burrell], rapper (Hammer Time), was born in Oakland, Ca.
(MC, 3/30/02)
1962 Mar 31, Cesar Chavez (d.1993) founded the United Farm Workers Union on his birthday.
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A14)
1962 Mar, Army commander Ne Win staged a coup against a civilian government and took over control of Burma.
(SFC, 5/22/96, p.C-1)(SFC,12/31/97, p.A10)(AP, 4/10/04)
1962 Apr 3, Manolis Kalomiris (78), Greek opera composer, died.
(MC, 4/3/02)
1962 Apr 5, Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1962 Apr 5, NASA civilian pilot Neil A. Armstrong took the X-15 to 54,600 m.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1962 Apr 5, St. Bernard Tunnel was finished and Swiss and Italians workers shook hands.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1962 Apr 8, The Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.
(HN, 4/8/98)
1962 Apr 9, In the 34th Academy Awards "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell won.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1962 Apr 9, JFK threw out the 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1962 Apr 13, US steel industry was forced to give up price increases.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1962 Apr 16, Walter Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
(AP, 4/16/97)
1962 Apr 16, Brazil nationalized US businesses.
(MC, 4/16/02)
1962 Apr 20, New Orleans Citizens Committee gave a free one-way ride to blacks to move North.
(HN, 4/20/98)
1962 Apr 20, NASA civilian pilot Neil A. Armstrong took the X-15 to 63,250 m.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1962 Apr 20, The Secret Army Organization (OAS) leader and ex-general Salan was arrested in Algiers.
(MC, 4/20/02)(PCh, 1992, p.984)
1962 Apr 24, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, between Camp Parks, Ca., and Westford, Mass.
(AP, 4/24/02)
1962 Apr 25, Operation Dominic began with a test blast on Christmas Island. The operation was a series of 105 nuclear test explosions conducted in 1962 and 1963 by the United States. Those conducted in the Pacific are sometimes called Dominic I. The blasts in Nevada are known as Dominic II.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Dominic_I_and_II)
1962 Apr 25, U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash landed on the Moon.
(HN, 4/25/98)
1962 Apr 29, In the 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed won.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1962 Apr 30, Milton Obote took over as prime minister of Uganda.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda)
1962 Apr, Jean-Claude Forest (d.1998) created the 41st century Barbarella sci-fi comic character for V Magazine. It was censored in France and barred from advertising or sale to minors until the early 1970s.
(SFC, 1/2/99, p.C2)
1962 May 2, OAS struck in Algeria.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1962 May 3, William A, Eddy (b.1896), former US minister to Saudi Arabia (1944-1946), died. In 2008 Thomas W. Lippman authored “Arabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy, USMC, and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East.”
(Econ, 11/8/08, p.102)
1962 May 5, The West Side Story soundtrack album went to #1 and stayed #1 for 54 weeks, more than 20 weeks longer than any other album.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1962 May 6, In the first test of its kind, the submerged submarine USS Ethan Allen fired a Polaris missile armed with a nuclear warhead that detonated above the Pacific Ocean.
(AP, 5/6/97)(HN, 5/6/98)
1962 May 6, Pathet Lao broke cease fire and conquered Nam Tha Laos.
(MC, 5/6/02)
1962 May 7, A Pulitzer prize was awarded to Theodore H. White (Making of President).
(MC, 5/7/02)
1962 May 8, The Stephen Sondheim musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opened at the Alvin Theater in NYC for 965 performances.
(AP, 5/8/97)(SFEC, 5/31/98, BR p.6)(MC, 5/8/02)
1962 May 8, London trolley buses went out of service.
(MC, 5/8/02)
1962 May 9, A laser beam was successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.
(HN, 5/9/98)
1962 May 11, US sent troops to Thailand.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1962 May 12, Dick Calkins, co-author of Buck Rogers, died at 67.
(SC, Internet, 5/12/97)
1962 May 13, Franz Kline (b.1910), American painter of abstract expressionist style, died of a heart attack in NYC. He was known for dramatic, easy-to-recognize pictures of big black slashes against snowy backgrounds. His early work was as a cartoonist and bar decorator. His portraits sketches of patrons still line the walls of the Minetta Tavern in Greenwich Village, N.Y. Kline’s hot brush stroke was parodied in Roy Lichtenstein’s pixilated "Brushstroke" series, where RL provided a cool version of Kline’s hot stroke.
(WSJ, 12/16/94, A-12)(www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_77.html)
1962 May 14, Princess Sophia of Greece wed Don Juan Carlos of Spain.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1962 May 15, US marines "arrived" in Laos.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1962 May 19, Marilyn Monroe sang "Happy Birthday" to Pres. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden while wearing a dress described as "skin and beads." In 1999 the dress sold for $1.15 million at Christie's auction house.
(SFC, 10/28/99, p.A3)
1962 May 19, R.C., "Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)" by Ernie Maresca peaked at #6 on the pop singles chart.
(DTnet, 5/19/97)
1962 May 19, Stan Musial broke Honus Wagner's NL baseball hit record with 3,431.
(MC, 5/19/02)
1962 May 19, Indonesian paratroopers landed in New Guinea.
(MC, 5/19/02)
1962 May 23, OAS leader general Raoul Salan was sentenced to life in prison. French general Raoul Salan led a failed army revolt in Algeria (July, 1960) and then fled abroad, continuing to direct increasing terrorist Secret Army Organization (OAS) attacks on the French and Algerian governments, turning the Algerian War of Independence into a three-way war in Algeria and a right-wing guerrilla insurrection in France.
(http://tinyurl.com/d8qm2)
1962 May 23, Ruben Jaramillo, Mexican agrarian reformer, was assassinated along with his family by state forces.
(SFC, 12/31/96, p.C9)(AP, 5/23/04)
1962 May 24, Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
(AP, 5/24/97)
1962 May 25, Isley Brothers released "Twist & Shout."
(SC, 5/25/02)
1962 May 25, US performed fizzled nuclear test at Christmas Island. The Tanana blast was part of Operation Dominic.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Dominic_I_and_II)
1962 May 25, US unions AFL-CIO started campaign for a 35-hour work week.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1962 May 30, Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premiered.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1962 May 31, Adolph Eichmann (b.1906), Gestapo official and Nazi war criminal, was hanged near Tel Aviv, Israel, for his role in the Nazi murder of over one million Jews. He had been nabbed in Argentina by Peter Malkin in 1960 and taken to Israel for trial. This was the first execution to take place in the state Israel. Eichmann completed 1,300 notebook pages while in prison and they were OK'd for publication in 1999. In 1963 Hannah Arendt authored "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil."
(SFEC, 11/3/96, Par p.13) (AP, 5/31/97)(HN, 5/31/99)(SFC, 8/11/99, p.C4)(WSJ, 8/31/99, p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann)
1962 May, The stock market decline coincided with Pres. Kennedy’s attack on the steel industry and Attorney General Kennedy’s antitrust suits against numerous American industries. Kennedy launched a price-fixing investigation after US Steel raised prices by $6 a ton and other steel-makers followed suit.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.B2)(WSJ, 5/12/03, p.A6)
1962 May, A memo from the CIA briefing for Attorney Gen’l. Robert Kennedy revealed that $150,000 was offered to the US mob for the assassination of Fidel Castro. The mob insisted on doing the job at no charge.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.A5)
1962 May, US Pvt. Larry Abshier (19) deserted to North Korea and later died there of natural causes.
(SFC, 8/16/04, p.A5)
1962 May, Becton Dickinson became a public company. In Sep, 1963, its shares qualified for trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $25 per share. The capital was used to make disposable syringes. There have been four stock splits since then and the company has paid dividends to shareholders every year and the rate has been increased annually.
(Horizon, Fall '95, p.13)(Echo, 12/09, p.4)(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A6)
1962 Jun 1, "The Dinah Shore Show" (TV Variety) aired for the last time on NBC after 10 years.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1962 Jun 1, USAF Maj. Robert M White took the X-15 to 40,420 m.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1962 Jun 2, Vita Sackville-West (b.1892), English poet, novelist and gardener, died. She helped create her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affairs with women like novelist Virginia Woolf. Her son Nigel gave her estate to the National Trust, a conservation charity. In 2008 Adam Nicolson authored “Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History.”
(Econ, 10/04/08, p.91)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West)
1962 Jun 3, Lee Harvey Oswald arrived by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1962 Jun 4, Lee Harvey Oswald departed Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1962 Jun 4, William Beebe (b.1877), US biologist, explorer, died. In 2004 Carol Grant Gould authored “The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist.”
(NH, 2/05, p.54)(www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9014090)
1962 Jun 6, Yves Klein (b.1928), French artist, died of a heart attack.
(Econ, 5/29/10, p.85)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein)
1962 Jun 7, Joseph A. Walker, NASA civilian test pilot, took the X-15 to 31,580 meters.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1962 Jun 11, Frank Lee Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz and disappeared into the SF Bay. Their fate was never resolved. The 1979 film "Escape From Alcatraz" with Clint Eastwood was based on this event.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A20)(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W38)(SFC, 12/1/98, pA3)
1962 Jun 22, The Hovercraft was 1st tested.
(MC, 6/22/02)
1962 Jun 25, The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
(AP, 6/25/97)(HN, 6/25/98)
1962 Jun 27, NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker took the X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1962 Jun 28, Thalidomide was banned in Netherlands.
(MC, 6/28/02)
1962 Jun, In Iran a police attack on the Faizieh Theological School in Qom started Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's rebellion against the Shah.
(WSJ, 8/11/99, p.A1)
1962 Jul 1, Some 6 million of a total Algerian electorate of 6.5 million cast their ballots in the referendum on independence. The vote was nearly unanimous. De Gaulle pronounced Algeria an independent country on July 3. The Provisional Executive, however, proclaimed July 5, the 132nd anniversary of the French entry into Algeria, as the day of national independence.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)
1962 Jul 3, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1962 Jul 3, French Pres. Charles De Gaulle pronounced Algeria an independent country following the July 1 elections. De Gaulle evacuated Algeria and a million settlers flooded into France.
(WSJ, 11/16/95, p.A-18)(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)
1962 Jul 5, Algeria’s Provisional Executive proclaimed July 5, the 132nd anniversary of the French entry into Algeria, as the day of national independence. French Pres. Charles De Gaulle pronounced Algeria an independent country on Jul 3 following the July 1 elections. A massacre in Oran, Algeria, left 96 dead.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/a5ky8)
1962 Jul 6, The US tested a 104 kiloton nuclear device in Nevada in "Project Sedan" and blew a hole 1,280 feet wide and 320 feet deep. It was one of many "Plowshare" experiments to see if atomic detonations could be used for large scale peaceful purposes.
(SFC,12/23/97, p.A3)
1962 Jul 6, William Cuthbert Faulkner (b.1897), US writer (Nobel 1949), died in Oxford, Miss. In 2004 Jay Parini authored “One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner.”
(WSJ, 10/28/04, p.A1)(www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner_william/)
1962 Jul 7-1962 Jul 17, Operation Sunbeam was a series of four nuclear tests conducted at the United States of America's Nevada Test Site.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Sunbeam)
1962 Jul 7, In Burma Sein Lwin headed the army unit that shot dead Rangoon University students protesting Ne Win's rule.
(AP, 4/10/04)
1962 Jul 10, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a demonstration in Georgia.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1962 Jul 10, The communications satellite Telstar, developed by Bell Labs, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, beaming live television from Europe to the United States.
(AP, 7/10/97)(HN, 7/10/98)(WSJ, 8/21/06, p.A2)
1962 Jul 11, The Telstar I satellite carried the first transatlantic TV transmission. It picked up broadcast signals from France and bounced them down to an antenna in Maine, delivering the first live television picture from Europe to America.
(PGA, 12/9/98)(www.lucent.com/minds/telstar/fit.html)
1962 Jul 11, Cosmonaut Micolaev set longevity space flight record -- 4 days.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1962 Jul 14, Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel, between France and Italy, was finished. [see Aug 14]
(MC, 7/14/02)
1962 Jul 17, Air Force pilot Robert White (1924-2010) flew the rocket-powered X-15 to an altitude of 314,750 feet (59.6 miles).
(SFC, 3/24/10, p.C4)
1962 Jul 20, Dmitri Shostakovitch completed his 13th Symphony.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1962 Jul 20, George Macaulay Trevelyan (86), English royal historian, died.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1962 Jul 21, 160 civil right activists were jailed after demonstration in Albany, Ga.
(MC, 7/21/02)
1962 Jul 22, Mariner I was launched for Venus, veered off course within seconds, and was ordered destroyed. It was later found that a single hyphen from the computer launch code was missing.
(SFEM, 8/22/99, p.9)
1962 Jul 23, The Geneva Conference on Laos forbade the United States to invade eastern Laos, site of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1962 Jul 27, Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Albany, Georgia.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1962 Jul 28, 19 died in a train crash in Steelton, Pa.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1962 Jul 28, Mariner I, launched to Mars, fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1962 Jul, Pres. Kennedy installed a taping system in the White House.
(WSJ, 11/15/99, p.A48)
1962 Aug 4, Nelson Mandela was captured by South African police.
(MC, 8/4/02)
1962 Aug 5, Actress Marilyn Monroe (36) was found dead in her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled a "probable suicide" from an overdose of sleeping pills. Movie actress, model, singer, Judaism convert, RN: Norma Jean Mortenson Baker; Joe DiMaggio's, then Arthur Miller's ex-wife. Her films included "Some Like It Hot." In 1999 Barbara Leaming authored the biography "Marilyn Monroe." In 1969 Fred Lawrence Guiles (d.2000 at 79) authored "Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe."
(AP, 6/1/97)(DTnet, 6/1/97)(SFEC, 1/24/99, BR p.9)(SFC, 8/1/00, p.B2)
1962 cAug 5, Russia set off a 40-megaton atomic bomb as part of a new test series.
(SFC, 8/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/24/99, p.E9)
1962 Aug 5, Nelson Mandela was arrested for incitement and illegally leaving South Africa.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1962 Aug 6, Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 8/6/97)
1962 Aug 9, Hermann Hesse (85), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1946), died in Switzerland.
(iUniv. 7/2/00)(MC, 8/9/02)
1962 Aug 10, Appointed by Pres. Kennedy, Gen. Edward Landsdale participated in a meeting of the Special Group Augmented where discussion of assassinating foreign leaders was discussed. Highlights of the meeting were written down in a memorandum dated Aug 13. Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the augmented member.
(WSJ, 2/13/96, p.A-14)
1962 Aug 11, The Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev on a 94-hour flight.
(AP, 8/11/97)
1962 Aug 12, A day after launching Andrian Nikolayev into orbit, the Soviet Union launched Vostok 4 with cosmonaut Pavel Popovich; both men landed safely on Aug 15.
(AP, 8/12/02)
1962 Aug 14, Robbers held up a U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass., making off with more than $1.5 million.
(AP, 8/14/97)
1962 Aug 14, French and Italian workers broke through at the Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel. [see Jul 14]
(MC, 8/14/02)
1962 Aug 15, Shady Grove Baptist Church was burned in Leesburg, Georgia.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1962 Aug 15, US Pvt. James Joseph Dresnok (21) defected to North Korea. His wife had recently divorced him and he faced a court-martial. A British film crew met with Dresnok in 2004. A documentary about his defection, "Crossing the Line," was released in 2006 and made it to DVD in 2008.
(SFC, 8/16/04, p.A5)(AFP, 1/29/07)(http://tinyurl.com/m59l5v)
1962 Aug 15, Lei Feng (b.1940), a Chinese revolutionary soldier, died after being hit by a falling telephone pole.
(WSJ, 4/12/08, p.R6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_Feng)
1962 Aug 16, The Beatles dropped Pete Best as their drummer. They took on Ringo Starr on Aug 17. Best later authored the autobiography "Beatle! The Pete Best Story."
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.G5)(MC, 8/16/02)
1962 Aug 17, Beatles replaced Pete Best with Ringo Starr.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1962 Aug 17, East German border guards shot and mortally wounded 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had attempted to cross over the Berlin Wall into the western sector.
(AP, 8/17/97)
1962 Aug 18, Peter, Paul and Mary released their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer."
(MC, 8/18/02)
1962 Aug 18, Pres. J.F. Kennedy led the official groundbreaking ceremonies for the San Luis Joint-Use Complex, Ca. In 1961 the state and feds had agreed to the project which required the B.F. Sisk San Luis Dam for storage of flows pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Sisk Dam was named after Congressman B.F. Sisk of Fresno.
(CDWR, brochure)
1962 Aug 18, In Iran brothers, Ahmad and Mahmoud Khayami founded "Iran National" to manufacture cars. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution it became known as Iran Khodro. Their later Paykan design was based on the 1967 Hillman Hunter, which was originally designed and manufactured by the British Rootes Group. Mahmoud Khayami is also known for starting the Kourosh Department Stores: the first large retail chain stores of Iran, not unlike their American counterparts Sears and Kmart.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Khayami)
1962 Aug 21, Matthew Broderick, actor (Ferris Buehler, Biloxi Blues), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1962 Aug 22, Savannah, world's 1st nuclear powered ship, completed here maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1962 Aug 22, There was a failed assassination on president De Gaulle.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1962 Aug 25, USSR performed a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1962 Aug 27, The United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe with an Atlas D booster. On December 14, 1962, Mariner 2 passed within just over 20,000 miles of Venus, reporting an 800F surface temperature, high surface pressures, a predominantly carbon dioxide atmosphere, continuous cloud cover, and no detectable magnetic field.
(AP, 8/27/97)(SFEM, 8/22/99, p.9)(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-041A.html)
1962 Aug 29, Rebecca DeMornay, actress: Risky Business, The Three Musketeers, Guilty as Sin, Backdraft, was born.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1962 Aug 29, A US U-2 flight saw SAM launch pads in Cuba.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1962 Aug 31, The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British Commonwealth. Eric Williams, a Marxist historian, led the country to independence.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 8/31/97)(Econ, 8/26/06, p.29)
1962 Aug, The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA, 4 starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, Z1 p.3)(www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins)
1962 Sep 1, UN announced Earth’s that human population has hit 3 billion.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1962 Sep 1, Some 10,000 died in an earthquake in western Iran.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1962 Sep 3, e[dward] e cummings (ee cummings), US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), died at 67.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1962 Sep 11, The Beatles recorded their first single for EMI, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," at EMI studios in London. The recording contract was offered by producer George Martin. Drummer Ringo Starr joined John, Paul and George for his first recording session as a Beatles, replacing Pete Best. "Love Me Do" was the result and it took 17 takes to complete.
(AP, 9/11/97)(SFC, 11/11/98, p.E3)(MC, 9/11/01)
1962 Sep 11, Thurgood Marshall was appointed a judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1962 Sep 17, The first federal suit to end public school segregation was filed by the U.S. Justice Department.
(HN, 9/17/98)
1962 Sep 17, U.S. space officials announced the selection of nine new astronauts, including Neil A. Armstrong, who became the first man to step onto the moon.
(AP, 9/17/02)
1962 Sep 20, Black student James Meredith was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted. A Life Magazine photograph around this time showed 7 sheriffs gathered at Ole Miss to keep Meredith out. In 2003 Paul Hendrickson authored "Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy," in which he uncovered the lives of the 7 sheriffs.
(AP, 9/20/97)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.M1)
1962 Sep 23, "The Jetsons," a TV animated Hanna-Barbera cartoon series about a Space Age family, premiered as the ABC television network's first color program. It was a futuristic mirror image of the Flintstones. Penny Singleton (1908-2003) was the voice of Jane Jetson.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D7)(AP, 9/23/02)(SFC, 11/15/03, p.A23)
1962 Sep 23, New York's Philharmonic Hall, since renamed Avery Fisher Hall, formally opened as the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Opening ceremonies included the premier of Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto by John Browning (d.2003) and the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf.
(AP, 9/23/97)(SFC, 1/30/03, p.A17)
1962 Sep 24, US Circuit Court of Appeals ordered James Meredith admitted to the Univ. of Miss. The University of Mississippi agreed to admit James Meredith as the first black university student, sparking more rioting.
(HN, 9/24/98)(MC, 9/24/01)
1962 Sep 25, Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in round one to win the world heavyweight title at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
(AP, 9/25/02)
1962 Sep 25, A Black church was destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1962 Sep 26, The cult film "Carnival of Souls" premiered in Lawrence, Kan., where parts of it had been filmed.
(AP, 9/26/02)
1962 Sep 26, TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS. The Beverly Hillbillies, produced by Paul Henning (1912-2005), became the top ranking network show on television for two seasons with rankings of 36 and 39.1%. The show ran to 1971.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(WSJ, 5/26/98, p.B1)(SFC, 3/26/05, p.B5)
1962 Sep 26, In North Yemen a group of military officers led by Col. Adbullah al-Sallal and supported by Egypt overthrew the Imam and established a republic.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D6)
1962 Sep 30, Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi. He became the first black to enroll at Old Miss Univ. and 13,500 Federal troops were required to back him up. U.S. Marshals escorted James H. Meredith into the University of Mississippi; two died in the mob violence that followed. Meredith was also noted for starting the "March Against Fear" to encourage voter registration by Southern African Americans. While on the march he was hit with a snipers bullet. Other Civil Rights leaders including MLK continued the march. Meredith was able to complete the march in Jackson, Mississippi.
(TMC, 1994, p.1962)(AP, 9/30/97)(HN, 9/30/98)
1962 Sep 30, Howard Duff signed off his radio show as "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" for the last time. It was declared by Gerald Nachman to mark the last moment of vintage radio. In 1998 Nachman published "Raised on Radio."
(SFEC, 12/27/98, BR p.3)
1962 Oct 1, Johnny Carson succeeded Jack Paar as regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show. Carson received an on-air introduction from Groucho Marx; the guests on his debut program were Joan Crawford, Rudy Vallee, Tony Bennett, Mel Brooks and The Phoenix Singers.
(AP, 10/1/02)
1962 Oct 1, Barbra Streisand signed her 1st recording contract with Columbia.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1962 Oct 1, James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi. [see Sep 30]
(MC, 10/1/01)
1962 Oct 1, Ludwig Bemelmans (1898), Austrian-born writer of children’s books, died in NYC. His 1st Madeline book was published in 1939.
(www.kidsreads.com/series/series-madeline-author.asp)
1962 Oct 3, "Stop the World" opened at Shubert NYC for 886 performances.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1962 Oct 3, The SF Giants beat the LA Dodgers to win baseball's National League Pennant.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.E9)
1962 Oct 3, Astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma 7 on a nine-hour flight.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1962 Oct 5, The Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do," was first released in the United Kingdom.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1962 Oct 9, Uganda became an independent state within the Britain Commonwealth. [see Mar 1]
(PCh, 1992, p.984)(SFC, 5/4/96, P.A-10)(AP, 10/9/04)
1962 Oct 11, The US Trade Expansion Act was enacted under pres. Kennedy. It include a federal program called the Trade Adjusted Assistance (TAA), which offered superior unemployment benefits to US manufacturing and farm workers who lose jobs due to imports or production shifts out of country.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Expansion_Act)(http://tinyurl.com/d9q7sa)(WSJ, 4/20/09, p.A1)
1962 Oct 11, Pope John XXIII convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st Ecumenical Council, also known as Vatican II, with a call for Christian unity. This was the largest gathering of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in history. Among delegate-observers were representatives of major Protestant denominations, in itself a sign of sweeping change. He declared its purpose to be "aggiornamento," an "updating" that would be a pastoral response to the needs of the modern world. It allowed for vernacular languages in the Liturgy and continued to 1965, when it published "Gaudium et Spes," the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.
(CU, 6/87) (AP, 10/11/97)(HN, 10/11/98)
1962 Oct 12, Columbus Day storms washed out the 1962 World Series game at Candlestick Park in SF.
(SFCM, 9/25/05, p.4)
1962 Oct 13, Jerry Rice, football player, was born. He played as a San Francisco '49er wide receiver: Super Bowl XXIII, XXIV, XXIX.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1962 Oct 13, The four-character drama "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," by Edward Albee, opened on Broadway with Uta Hagen (d.2004) as Martha and Arthur Hill as George. The opening coincided with co-star Melinda Dillon's 23rd birthday.
(SFC, 1/16/04, p.A23)(AP, 10/13/07)
1962 Oct 14, The CIA U-2 mission detected Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. Air Force pilot Maj. Richard Heyser and CIA contract pilot James Barnes Jr. (d.1999 at 70) identified missile sites in separate flights.
(SFC, 9/17/97, p.A3)(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A19)
1962 Oct 15, Byron R. White (1917-2002) was appointed to the US Supreme Court by Pres. Kennedy.
(MC, 10/15/01)(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A5)
1962 Oct 16, The Cuban missile crisis began as President Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
(AP, 10/16/97)
1962 Oct 16-1962 Oct 29, The Cuban missile crises. Russia under Khrushchev removed its missiles from Cuba. The 13-day missile crises was in part recorded by Kennedy on tape and published in 1997: "The Kennedy Tapes," ed. by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow.
(SFEC, 8/25/96, Parade p.6)(TMC, 1994, p.1962)(WSJ, 9/23/97, p.A20)
1962 Oct 18, Dr. James D. Watson of the United States and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins (d.2004) of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
(AP, 10/18/02)(SFC, 3/19/98, p.C4)
1962 Oct 18, JFK met Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1962 Oct 20, The musical, "Mr. President," written by Irving Berlin, opened on Broadway.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1962 Oct 20, A Chinese army landed in India for a brief border war in the Himalayas. The northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, twice the size of Switzerland, was occupied in a week-long assault by China and closed to foreign tourists, due to the border war. Some 3,000 Indian officers and men were killed. China gained control from India of the northeast region of Kashmir known as Aksai Chin. Arunachal Pradesh re-opened in 1993.
(WSJ, 5/16/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 11/29/96, p.A1)(http://countrystudies.us/nepal/19.htm)(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A22)(SSFC, 1/4/04, p.C10)(Econ, 7/5/08, p.95)(Econ, 8/21/10, p.17)
1962 Oct 22, President John F. Kennedy announced that missile bases had been discovered in Cuba and they had the potential to attack the United States with nuclear warheads. Kennedy ordered a naval and air blockade on further shipment of military equipment to Cuba. The Russians had previously agreed not to bring new offensive weapons into Cuba, but after hearing Kennedy's announcement, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev refused to cooperate with the quarantine. Following a confrontation that threatened nuclear war, Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on October 28 on a formula to end the crisis. On November 2 Kennedy reported that Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled.
(AP, 10/22/97)(HNPD, 10/22/98)(HN, 10/22/02)
1962 Oct 23, US ambassador Adlai Stevenson spoke at UN about Cuba crisis.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1962 Oct 24, The U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a proclamation signed by President Kennedy.
(AP, 10/24/97)
1962 Oct 24, The Russian Mars 1962A Flyby failed to leave Earth orbit after the final rocket stage exploded.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1962 Oct 25, American author John Steinbeck (62) was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
(WUD, 1994, p.1392)(AP, 10/25/97)
1962 Oct 25, U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson demanded USSR and Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over."
(AP, 10/25/97)(MC, 10/25/01)
1962 Oct 26, JFK warned Russia that the US would not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1962 Oct 26, The USS Beale tracked and dropped practice depth charges on a Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine which was armed with a nuclear torpedo. Running out of air, the Soviet submarine was surrounded by American warships and desperately needed to surface to recharge its batteries. An argument broke out among three officers on the B-39, including submarine captain Valentin Savitsky, political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, and chief of staff of the submarine flotilla, Commander Vasiliy Arkhipov. A totally exhausted Savitsky became furious and ordered that the nuclear torpedo on board be made combat ready. Accounts differ about whether Commander Arkhipov convinced Savitsky not to make the attack, or whether Savitsky himself finally concluded that the only reasonable choice left open to him was to come to the surface.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis)
1962 Oct 26, Nikita Khrushchev sent note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey. The offer was rejected.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1962 Oct 27, "Beyond the Fringe" opened at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances. It starred Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1962 Oct 27, Fatso Marco (56), comedian (Milton Berle Show), died.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1962 Oct 27, With its batteries running low, submarine B-59/C-19 was forced to surface and headed east. Although surrounded by US ships, submarine captain Vitali Savitsky realizes that they are not in a "state of war; one of the destroyers has a lively band playing jazz. The Cony communicates with it via flashing lights; Savitsky identifies the submarine as "Ship X" ("Korablx") and declines assistance. B-59 identifies itself to other nearby ships as "Prinavlyet" (by the U.S.S. Murray), and "Prosnablavst" (by the Bache and the Barry). Aircraft illuminate and photograph it.
(www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/subchron.htm)
1962 Oct 27, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offered to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removed its missile bases in Turkey. It was later learned that JFK had secretly offered this option to Khrushchev.
(HN, 10/27/98)(MC, 10/27/01)(NPR, 2002)
1962 Oct 28, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. Radio Moscow reported nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated. Kennedy and Khrushchev agreed on a formula to end the Cuban missile crisis: the Russians would dismantle their bases and the United States would publicly promise not to invade Cuba.
(AP, 10/28/97)(HN, 10/22/98)(HNPD, 10/22/98)(MC, 10/28/01)
1962 Oct 31, Bobby Pickett (1938-2007) made a one-time hit with “Monster Mash,” as it reached No. 1 on Halloween.
(SFC, 4/27/07, p.B9)
1962 Oct, Linus Pauling won the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1954 he won a Nobel in Chemistry.
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.E1)(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A17)
1962 Oct, Max Perutz (1914-2002), Austrian-born molecular biologist, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in England on the structure of hemoglobin.
(Econ, 8/25/07, p.77)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Perutz)
1962 Nov 1, Greece entered the European Common Market.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1962/index_en.htm)
1962 Nov 1, The Russian Mars 1 Flyby was launched but communications failed en route.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1962 Nov 2, Pres. Kennedy reported that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled.
(HN, 10/22/98)
1962 Nov 4, The Russian Mars 1962B Lander failed to leave Earth orbit.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1962 Nov 6, Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009) of Massachusetts was 1st elected as US Senator (D) to fill the vacancy caused by the 1960 resignation of his brother, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, for the term ending January 3, 1965. Pres. Kennedy had persuaded the governor of Massachusetts to appoint his college roommate, Benjamin A. Smith II, until Edward turned 30.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000105)(Econ, 8/29/09, p.30)
1962 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia abolished slavery.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1992/saudi/INTROTHR.htm)
1962 Nov 6, The UN General Assembly adopted resolution 1761 (XVII), which established a Special Committee on Apartheid in South Africa. The non-binding resolution called upon members "separately or collectively, in conformity with the charter" to break diplomatic relations with South Africa, to close ports to South African vessels, to forbid vessels flying their flags to enter South African ports, to boycott South African trade, and to suspend landing rights for South African aircraft. The committee held its first meeting on April 2, 1963.
(Econ, 9/15/07, p.74)(www.anc.org.za/un/reddy/aamun.htm)
1962 Nov 7, Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." Nixon's loss was in part due to the revelation that that his Washington home was being sold under a "restrictive covenant," that prevented a sale to a black or Jewish buyer.
(AP, 11/7/97)(SFEM, 4/11/99, p.41)
1962 Nov 7, Former first lady (1933-1945) Eleanor Roosevelt (b.1884) died in New York City and was buried near her husband at their estate in Hyde Park, New York. [see Nov 10]
(AP, 11/7/97)(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.7)(HNPD, 10/11/99)(MC, 11/7/01)
1962 Nov 10, Eleanor Roosevelt was buried.
(HN, 11/10/00)
1962 Nov 14, Laura San Giacoma, actress (Pretty Woman, Vital Signs), was born in Danville, NJ.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1962 Nov 15, Cuba threatened to down U.S. planes on reconnaissance flights over its territory.
(HN, 11/15/98)
1962 Nov 17, Washington's Dulles International Airport opened in rural Virginia and was dedicated by President Kennedy. The terminal was designed by Finnish-born architect Eero Saarinen. The airport spawned a high-tech corridor that by 2005 sat in the fastest growing county in the US.
(Hem., 5/97, p.68)(AP, 11/17/97)(Econ, 11/26/05, p.80)
1962 Nov 17, Arthur Vining Davis (95), CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), died in Miami.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1962 Nov 18, Niels Bohr (77), Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), died.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1962 Nov 19, S.N. Behrman's "Lord Pengo," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1962 Nov 19, Fidel Castro accepted the removal of Soviet weapons.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1962 Nov 20, President Kennedy barred religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
(HN, 11/20/98)
1962 Nov 20, USSR agreed to remove bombers from Cuba and US lifted its blockade.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1962 Nov 21, China agreed to a cease-fire on India-China border.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1962 Nov 26, The Beatles made their 1st recording session under the "Beatles" name.
(MC, 11/26/01)
1962 Nov 29, Great Britain and France agreed on a joint venture to build the super sonic Concorde jet.
(WSJ, 7/26/00, p.A26)(MC, 11/29/01)
1962 Nov 30, U Thant of Burma, who had been acting secretary-general of the United Nations following the death of Dag Hammarskjold the year before, was elected to a four-year term.
(AP, 11/30/08)
1962 Nov, The Chieftains were founded by Paddy Moloney in northern Dublin as a traditional Irish band.
(WSJ, 3/17/98, p.A16)
1962 Dec 5, Pres. Kennedy discussed stockpiling nuclear weapons to deter Soviet attacks with senior staff including Def. Sec. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell Taylor.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A4)
1962 Dec 7, Great Britain performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1962 Dec 8, A 114-day newspaper strike began in NYC.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1962 Dec 9, "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closed on Broadway.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1962 Dec 10, "Lawrence of Arabia," David Lean's epic film starring Peter O'Toole as British officer T.E. Lawrence, had its royal gala premiere in London.
(AP, 12/10/02)
1962 Dec 14, The U.S. space probe Mariner 2 approached Venus, transmitting information about the planet.
(AP, 12/14/97)
1962 Dec 14, North Rhodesia's first African-dominated government was formed under Kenneth Kaunda.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1962 Dec 17, Thomas Mitchell (70), US, actor (Outlaw), died of cancer.
(MC, 12/17/01)
1962 Dec 19, Transit 5A1, the 1st operational navigational satellite, was launched.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1962 Dec 20, In its first free election in 38 years, the Dominican Republic chose leftist Juan Bosch Gavino, the leftist leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, as president. Juan Bosch (1909-2001) was toppled in the Dominican Republic by the army shortly after being elected. His plans for land reform would have split up sugar plantations owned by generals.
(SFC, 5/17/96, p.A-14)(SFC, 5/12/98, p.A21)(HN, 12/20/98)(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D6)
1962 Dec 21, A US and Cuba accord released Bay of Pigs captives.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1962 Dec 23, Cuba started returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1962 Dec 25, The Bay of Pigs captives who were ransomed, vowed to return and topple Castro.
(HN, 12/25/98)
1962 Dec 26, Eight East Berliners escaped to West Berlin, crashing through gates in an armor plated bus.
(HN, 12/26/98)
Source: http://timelines.ws/20thcent/1962.HTML
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