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Events on the year of 1962 in history

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01 Jan 1962 Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium
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01 Jan 1962 Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa
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01 Jan 1962 United States Navy SEALs established.
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01 Jan 1962 Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
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02 Jan 1962 Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS
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03 Jan 1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome
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03 Jan 1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
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04 Jan 1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (NYC)
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05 Jan 1962 Tony Sheridan and beatles produce "My Bonnie" and"The Saints"
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07 Jan 1962 AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
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07 Jan 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno, fails
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07 Jan 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
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08 Jan 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
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08 Jan 1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th
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08 Jan 1962 The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
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09 Jan 1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ
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09 Jan 1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
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10 Jan 1962 Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
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10 Jan 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
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10 Jan 1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Per
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11 Jan 1962 An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
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11 Jan 1962 Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
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11 Jan 1962 Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die
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11 Jan 1962 Mandela leaves South Africa, travels to Ethiopia, Algeria & England
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12 Jan 1962 Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
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13 Jan 1962 "Do Re Mi" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 400 performances
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13 Jan 1962 "Do Re Mi" closes at St James Theater New York City NY after 400 performances
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13 Jan 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of Philadelphia Warriors scores NBA-record 73 points vs Chicago
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14 Jan 1962 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 31-30
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15 Jan 1962 The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
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15 Jan 1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
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15 Jan 1962 50th Australian Mens Tennis Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)
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16 Jan 1962 Shooting begins on "Dr No"
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16 Jan 1962 Suit accuses NYC Board of Education uses "racial quotas"
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16 Jan 1962 Shooting begins on "Dr No"
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16 Jan 1962 Suit accuses New York City NY Board of Education uses "racial quotas"
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17 Jan 1962 Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in San Francisco
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17 Jan 1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m
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18 Jan 1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
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18 Jan 1962 Southern University closed due to demonstrations
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20 Jan 1962 "Kean" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances
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20 Jan 1962 "Kean" closes at Broadway Theater New York City NY after 92 performances
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21 Jan 1962 Snow falls in San Francisco
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21 Jan 1962 JFK arrives in Uruguay
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21 Jan 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
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22 Jan 1962 The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
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23 Jan 1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
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23 Jan 1962 Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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23 Jan 1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
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24 Jan 1962 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany
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24 Jan 1962 Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles
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24 Jan 1962 Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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24 Jan 1962 Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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26 Jan 1962 "Twist" is impure and bans it from all Catholic schools
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26 Jan 1962 Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
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26 Jan 1962 US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mile (37,000-km)
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26 Jan 1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
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26 Jan 1962 Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
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26 Jan 1962 David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
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27 Jan 1962 "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 65 performances
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27 Jan 1962 "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City NY for 65 performances
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28 Jan 1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives
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30 Jan 1962 UN General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola)
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30 Jan 1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit
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30 Jan 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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31 Jan 1962 Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"
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31 Jan 1962 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
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01 Feb 1962 NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
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02 Feb 1962 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
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03 Feb 1962 John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
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03 Feb 1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs
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04 Feb 1962 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
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04 Feb 1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
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04 Feb 1962 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
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05 Feb 1962 Suit to bar Englewood New Jersey from "racial segregated" schools, filed
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05 Feb 1962 French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
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06 Feb 1962 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
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07 Feb 1962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
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07 Feb 1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
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07 Feb 1962 Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational
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07 Feb 1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
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08 Feb 1962 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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08 Feb 1962 Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
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09 Feb 1962 Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
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10 Feb 1962 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
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10 Feb 1962 Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
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10 Feb 1962 Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
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10 Feb 1962 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3 minutes 58.9 seconds) in Los Angeles CA
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10 Feb 1962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
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11 Feb 1962 Beatles record "Please, Please Me"
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12 Feb 1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
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14 Feb 1962 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
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14 Feb 1962 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
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16 Feb 1962 Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
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16 Feb 1962 Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres
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16 Feb 1962 US Open Tennis Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win
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17 Feb 1962 Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"
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17 Feb 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
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17 Feb 1962 Storm in Hamburg, kills 265
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18 Feb 1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
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18 Feb 1962 Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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19 Feb 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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20 Feb 1962 Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
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20 Feb 1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
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21 Feb 1962 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Netherlands
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22 Feb 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
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23 Feb 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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24 Feb 1962 "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
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24 Feb 1962 "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
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24 Feb 1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
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25 Feb 1962 Mike O'Hara completes a record 97th marathon
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25 Feb 1962 India Congress Party wins elections
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25 Feb 1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
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26 Feb 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs New York
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26 Feb 1962 Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad..." premieres in New York NY
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26 Feb 1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
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27 Feb 1962 Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
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27 Feb 1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
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28 Feb 1962 WMGM-AM in New York City NY changes call letters to WHN
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01 Mar 1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95
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01 Mar 1962 K-Mart opens
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01 Mar 1962 Uganda became a self-governing country
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01 Mar 1962 US / British nuclear test experiment in Nevada
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01 Mar 1962 American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
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02 Mar 1962 JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing
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02 Mar 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game
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02 Mar 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
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02 Mar 1962 In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
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03 Mar 1962 British Antarctic Territory forms
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04 Mar 1962 AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
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04 Mar 1962 A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
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06 Mar 1962 St. Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals
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06 Mar 1962 US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
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06 Mar 1962 Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
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07 Mar 1962 Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio
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07 Mar 1962 Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data)
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08 Mar 1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
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09 Mar 1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
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09 Mar 1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
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10 Mar 1962 Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater FL
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12 Mar 1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
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13 Mar 1962 Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
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13 Mar 1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
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14 Mar 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
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14 Mar 1962 Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
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15 Mar 1962 "No Strings" opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 580 performances
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15 Mar 1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
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15 Mar 1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
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15 Mar 1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Mar 1962 Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
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15 Mar 1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 points in an NBA season
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16 Mar 1962 A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
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16 Mar 1962 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
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16 Mar 1962 US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
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18 Mar 1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of the USSR
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18 Mar 1962 The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
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18 Mar 1962 Algerian War ends after 7
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19 Mar 1962 "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
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19 Mar 1962 The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
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19 Mar 1962 Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label.
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19 Mar 1962 Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal
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20 Mar 1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater
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21 Mar 1962 Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in the Netherlands for birth control
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21 Mar 1962 Dutch RC Bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
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21 Mar 1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
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21 Mar 1962 Dutch Roman Catholic bishop Beckers of Bosch makes TV speech in Netherlands in favor of birth control
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21 Mar 1962 Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' #36
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22 Mar 1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 performances
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23 Mar 1962 Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play and coach
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23 Mar 1962 JFK visits San Francisco
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23 Mar 1962 Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs West Indies age 21 years 77 days
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23 Mar 1962 William DeWitt buys Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000
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24 Mar 1962 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys
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24 Mar 1962 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59
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24 Mar 1962 Benny Paret, KO'd in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
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25 Mar 1962 "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
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25 Mar 1962 French OAS-leader ex-General Jouhaud arrested
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26 Mar 1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature
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27 Mar 1962 Ann Jellicoe's "Knack" premieres in London
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27 Mar 1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
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27 Mar 1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
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28 Mar 1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives West Indies cricket victory over India
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28 Mar 1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees
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29 Mar 1962 Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11½ day constitutional crisis.
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29 Mar 1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army
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29 Mar 1962 Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show"
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02 Apr 1962 The first official panda crossing is opened outside London Waterloo station.
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03 Apr 1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
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03 Apr 1962 Lieutenant General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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05 Apr 1962 Mgr J Daems appointed Bishop of Antwerp
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05 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
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05 Apr 1962 St. Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss / Italians workers shake hands
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06 Apr 1962 Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
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07 Apr 1962 Yugoslav ex-President Milovan Djilas returns to jail
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08 Apr 1962 Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
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09 Apr 1962 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
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09 Apr 1962 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story, " Sophia Loren and Max Schell win
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10 Apr 1962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt 45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
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10 Apr 1962 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th homerun
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10 Apr 1962 1st baseball game at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Cincinnati Reds
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11 Apr 1962 New York Mets make a losing debut
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12 Apr 1962 San Mateo County withdraws from BART district (San Francisco Bay area)
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13 Apr 1962 Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new National League record
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13 Apr 1962 US steel industry forced to give up price increases
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14 Apr 1962 Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam
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14 Apr 1962 Georges Pompidou becomes President of France
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15 Apr 1962 US national debt above $300,000,000,000
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16 Apr 1962 Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
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16 Apr 1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
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16 Apr 1962 Brazil nationalizes US businesses
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18 Apr 1962 16th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3
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19 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m
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19 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 6,900 meter
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20 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to an altitude of 63,250 meters
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20 Apr 1962 New Orleans Citizens Company gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
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20 Apr 1962 OAS-leader ex-General Salan arrested in Algiers
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21 Apr 1962 Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington
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21 Apr 1962 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
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22 Apr 1962 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open
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22 Apr 1962 New York Mets tie a National League record by losing 9 straight to start season
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22 Apr 1962 Pittsburgh Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season
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22 Apr 1962 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2
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23 Apr 1962 New York Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1
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23 Apr 1962 Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
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23 Apr 1962 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
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24 Apr 1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
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24 Apr 1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time California to Massachusetts
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24 Apr 1962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
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25 Apr 1962 Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on
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25 Apr 1962 June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
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25 Apr 1962 US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on the Moon
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25 Apr 1962 Cleveland sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland
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25 Apr 1962 Lion & Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated
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25 Apr 1962 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
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26 Apr 1962 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
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26 Apr 1962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
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26 Apr 1962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits Chicago White Sox 1-0
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26 Apr 1962 US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload
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26 Apr 1962 Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite)
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26 Apr 1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
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27 Apr 1962 Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything", premieres in London
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27 Apr 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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29 Apr 1962 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed win
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29 Apr 1962 16th Tony Awards Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying win
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29 Apr 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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30 Apr 1962 Willie Mays hits 4 HRs
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30 Apr 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude of 75,190 meters
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01 May 1962 1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
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01 May 1962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
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01 May 1962 JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
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02 May 1962 Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I
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02 May 1962 OAS strikes in Algeria
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02 May 1962 WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, New York (PBS) 1st broadcast
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03 May 1962 Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train and a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan)
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05 May 1962 88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4
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05 May 1962 LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Baltimore Orioles, 2-0
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05 May 1962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
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06 May 1962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
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06 May 1962 Antonio Segni elected President of Italy
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06 May 1962 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament
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06 May 1962 Pathet Lao breaks cease fire / conquerors Nam Tha Laos
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06 May 1962 St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
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07 May 1962 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
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08 May 1962 "Funny Thing Happened" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 965 performances
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08 May 1962 1st Atlas Centaur Launch
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08 May 1962 London trolley buses go out of service
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08 May 1962 The Rabindra Bharati University, a prominent University in India, was founded.
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09 May 1962 Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
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09 May 1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
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10 May 1962 Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
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11 May 1962 Antonio Segni becomes President of Italy
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11 May 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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11 May 1962 US sends troops to Thailand
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12 May 1962 Grevelingendam closes
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12 May 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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13 May 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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14 May 1962 Ex-President Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
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14 May 1962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
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14 May 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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15 May 1962 US marines arrive in Laos
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17 May 1962 Marin County withdraws from BART district
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19 May 1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
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19 May 1962 "John Birch Society, " by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99
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19 May 1962 A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
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19 May 1962 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2
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19 May 1962 Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
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19 May 1962 Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's National League hit record with 3,431
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19 May 1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
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20 May 1962 Patty Berg wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
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21 May 1962 3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games
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21 May 1962 3 more Cleveland homeruns set American League record for most homeruns (26) over 8 games
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22 May 1962 Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
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22 May 1962 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
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22 May 1962 Netherlands telephone net becomes completely automated
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22 May 1962 Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600 meters
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22 May 1962 Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inning game
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23 May 1962 Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 homeruns in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
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23 May 1962 OAS leader General Raoul Salan sentenced to life
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23 May 1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
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24 May 1962 Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
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24 May 1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit
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25 May 1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
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25 May 1962 The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
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25 May 1962 Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout"
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25 May 1962 US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
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25 May 1962 US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week
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26 May 1962 "All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 performances
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27 May 1962 The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
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27 May 1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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28 May 1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, New York
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28 May 1962 US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
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28 May 1962 Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
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29 May 1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show"
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29 May 1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Garry Moore Show"
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30 May 1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
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30 May 1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres
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31 May 1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
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31 May 1962 The West Indies Federation dissolves.
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31 May 1962 "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
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01 Jun 1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit
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01 Jun 1962 Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade
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01 Jun 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m
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01 Jun 1962 Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
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01 Jun 1962 The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.
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02 Jun 1962 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
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02 Jun 1962 During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
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03 Jun 1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
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03 Jun 1962 Betsy Rawls and Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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03 Jun 1962 Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal Neth
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03 Jun 1962 WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 Jun 1962 At Paris Orly Airport, an Air France Boeing 707 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
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04 Jun 1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
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06 Jun 1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums
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07 Jun 1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
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08 Jun 1962 Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
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09 Jun 1962 "Bill of Hare, " premieres in USA
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09 Jun 1962 Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
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10 Jun 1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament
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10 Jun 1962 A record 54 home runs hit in baseball
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10 Jun 1962 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3
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11 Jun 1962 President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
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11 Jun 1962 Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
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12 Jun 1962 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
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12 Jun 1962 Laos Prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition government
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12 Jun 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
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13 Jun 1962 "Bob Newhart Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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13 Jun 1962 Norway named ombudsman
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14 Jun 1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
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15 Jun 1962 WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Jun 1962 Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win
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15 Jun 1962 South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes
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16 Jun 1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
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16 Jun 1962 Caspar Weinberger (Secretary of Defense 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge
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17 Jun 1962 62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
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17 Jun 1962 Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers
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17 Jun 1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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17 Jun 1962 Brazil Beats Czechosolakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
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21 Jun 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
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22 Jun 1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
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22 Jun 1962 French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed
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23 Jun 1962 "Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St. James NYC after 205 performances
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23 Jun 1962 Laos Suvanna Phuma forms government
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23 Jun 1962 Larry Doby, retires from Cleveland Indians to play in Japan
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24 Jun 1962 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
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24 Jun 1962 Jack Reed's 22nd inn HR leads Yanks over Tigers 9-7
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25 Jun 1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
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25 Jun 1962 Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional
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25 Jun 1962 Yankee Jack Reed's 22nd inning HR wins a 7 hour game
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26 Jun 1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo, Illinois
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26 Jun 1962 WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Jun 1962 Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0
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27 Jun 1962 Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems
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27 Jun 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
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28 Jun 1962 Thalidomide drug banned in the Netherlands
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29 Jun 1962 Frank Howard, hits the 5,000th Dodger home run
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29 Jun 1962 JFK dines with Premier MacMillan in London
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29 Jun 1962 1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner
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30 Jun 1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria
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30 Jun 1962 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits New York Mets, 5-0
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30 Jun 1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters
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30 Jun 1962 Murie Lindstrom wins US Women's Golf Open
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30 Jun 1962 Rwanda & Burundi become independent
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01 Jul 1962 Algeria votes for independence
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01 Jul 1962 Burundi and Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
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01 Jul 1962 Independence of Rwanda.
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01 Jul 1962 Independence of Burundi.
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02 Jul 1962 Fidel Castro visits Moscow
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02 Jul 1962 The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
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03 Jul 1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7 / 5)
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04 Jul 1962 Island Records begins
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04 Jul 1962 KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
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05 Jul 1962 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
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05 Jul 1962 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
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05 Jul 1962 Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers
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05 Jul 1962 Algeria becomes independent from France.
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06 Jul 1962 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
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06 Jul 1962 Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
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06 Jul 1962 Mantle hits his 3rd and 4th consecutive homer
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06 Jul 1962 As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
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06 Jul 1962 The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster, airs on RTÉ One for the first time.
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07 Jul 1962 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
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07 Jul 1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
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08 Jul 1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open
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08 Jul 1962 Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
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09 Jul 1962 The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States.
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09 Jul 1962 Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
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10 Jul 1962 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington
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10 Jul 1962 All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers)
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10 Jul 1962 Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
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10 Jul 1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
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10 Jul 1962 NL beats AL 3-1 in 32nd All Star Game (DC Stadium, Wash)
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10 Jul 1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
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11 Jul 1962 Brothers Hank and Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
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11 Jul 1962 First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
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11 Jul 1962 Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
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11 Jul 1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
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11 Jul 1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
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11 Jul 1962 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
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12 Jul 1962 The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London, England, United Kingdom.
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12 Jul 1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
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12 Jul 1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
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13 Jul 1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
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13 Jul 1962 91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
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13 Jul 1962 In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
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14 Jul 1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
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14 Jul 1962 Brave's Hank Aaron hits HR #500
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15 Jul 1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League
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15 Jul 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
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15 Jul 1962 Netherlands and Indonesia accord over New-Guinea
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16 Jul 1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
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17 Jul 1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
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17 Jul 1962 Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.
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17 Jul 1962 Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
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17 Jul 1962 Senate rejects medicare for the aged
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18 Jul 1962 Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
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18 Jul 1962 Minn Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn and Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning
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20 Jul 1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
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20 Jul 1962 France and Tunisia recover diplomatic relations
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21 Jul 1962 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia
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21 Jul 1962 Battles on Chinese and Indies boundary
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22 Jul 1962 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink Golf Club - Pennsylvania
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22 Jul 1962 Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)
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22 Jul 1962 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament
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22 Jul 1962 Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
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22 Jul 1962 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
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23 Jul 1962 Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
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23 Jul 1962 The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
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25 Jul 1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
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26 Jul 1962 Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
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26 Jul 1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
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27 Jul 1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
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27 Jul 1962 Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
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28 Jul 1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania
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28 Jul 1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
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30 Jul 1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
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30 Jul 1962 All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
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30 Jul 1962 The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
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30 Jul 1962 AL beats NL 9-4 in 33rd All Star Game (Wrigley Field Chicago)
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31 Jul 1962 Federation of Malaysia formed
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01 Aug 1962 Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0
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01 Aug 1962 Failed assassination on President Nkrumah of Ghana
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03 Aug 1962 29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000)
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03 Aug 1962 New York Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games
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04 Aug 1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
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05 Aug 1962 1st quasar located by radio
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05 Aug 1962 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
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05 Aug 1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa
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05 Aug 1962 UN command forbids flights to Katangese airports
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05 Aug 1962 Apartheid in South Africa: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
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06 Aug 1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
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06 Aug 1962 Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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11 Aug 1962 Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2)
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11 Aug 1962 Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down
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11 Aug 1962 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
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11 Aug 1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
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11 Aug 1962 Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari"
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12 Aug 1962 1st time 2 people in space
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12 Aug 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
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12 Aug 1962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely August 15
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13 Aug 1962 Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously
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14 Aug 1962 French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel
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14 Aug 1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
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14 Aug 1962 US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million
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15 Aug 1962 Netherlands and Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
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15 Aug 1962 James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
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15 Aug 1962 Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
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16 Aug 1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
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16 Aug 1962 Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
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17 Aug 1962 Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
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17 Aug 1962 E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
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18 Aug 1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
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19 Aug 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
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19 Aug 1962 Homer Blancos plays the finest round in golf, shooting a 55
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21 Aug 1962 Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
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22 Aug 1962 Failed assassination on President De Gaulle
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23 Aug 1962 1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
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23 Aug 1962 John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
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24 Aug 1962 Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
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26 Aug 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open
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26 Aug 1962 Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits Kansas City Athletics, 1-0
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26 Aug 1962 Minn Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0
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27 Aug 1962 Mariner 2 launched; 1st probe to fly by Venus
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28 Aug 1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
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28 Aug 1962 Tony Sheridan and beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
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28 Aug 1962 Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
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28 Aug 1962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
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29 Aug 1962 Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
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29 Aug 1962 US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
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30 Aug 1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
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31 Aug 1962 Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
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31 Aug 1962 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
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01 Sep 1962 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran
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01 Sep 1962 KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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01 Sep 1962 UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
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03 Sep 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
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04 Sep 1962 Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI
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04 Sep 1962 French President De Gaulle visits German FR
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05 Sep 1962 Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II
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05 Sep 1962 Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
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06 Sep 1962 Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
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08 Sep 1962 Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
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08 Sep 1962 Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
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08 Sep 1962 Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
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09 Sep 1962 76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64)
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09 Sep 1962 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open
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09 Sep 1962 Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
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09 Sep 1962 WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1962 KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1962 Maryland Campaign (Antietam Campaign)
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10 Sep 1962 WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Sep 1962 Rod Laver wins the Grand Slam of tennis
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11 Sep 1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and"PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums
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11 Sep 1962 Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles
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11 Sep 1962 KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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11 Sep 1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You"
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12 Sep 1962 Washington Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game
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15 Sep 1962 "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
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15 Sep 1962 Kansas City Athletics Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1 / 3 innings without a walk
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15 Sep 1962 WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Sep 1962 The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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15 Sep 1962 Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
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16 Sep 1962 Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8)
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16 Sep 1962 Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
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16 Sep 1962 Public TV channel 13 begins in New York City
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16 Sep 1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open
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17 Sep 1962 Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools
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17 Sep 1962 US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts
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18 Sep 1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
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18 Sep 1962 Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
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18 Sep 1962 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to the UN
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20 Sep 1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria
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20 Sep 1962 Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Universe (James Meredith)
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20 Sep 1962 James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
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20 Sep 1962 James Meredith is blocked from entering Miss U as its 1st black
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22 Sep 1962 Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall
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23 Sep 1962 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
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23 Sep 1962 The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
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23 Sep 1962 ABC's 1st color TV series-The Jetsons
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23 Sep 1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104
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23 Sep 1962 NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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24 Sep 1962 KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Sep 1962 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders James Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi
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24 Sep 1962 United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
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25 Sep 1962 Yankees clinch AL pennant
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25 Sep 1962 The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
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25 Sep 1962 The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah as-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
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25 Sep 1962 A black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
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25 Sep 1962 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
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25 Sep 1962 Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup
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26 Sep 1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
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26 Sep 1962 TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS
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26 Sep 1962 1st to steal 100 bases in a season (Maury Wills goes on to 104)
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26 Sep 1962 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
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27 Sep 1962 Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen
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27 Sep 1962 The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
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27 Sep 1962 US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles
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28 Sep 1962 "Brighter Day, " last airs on CBS-TV daytime
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28 Sep 1962 "Jan Murray Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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28 Sep 1962 "Tonight Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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28 Sep 1962 "Verdict Is Yours, " last airs on CBS-TV
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28 Sep 1962 Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched
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28 Sep 1962 The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
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29 Sep 1962 "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric and His Piano peaks at #7
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29 Sep 1962 "My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 performances
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29 Sep 1962 "Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show, " debuts on ABC-TV
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29 Sep 1962 Algerian government of Ben Bella forms
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29 Sep 1962 Indians and Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader
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29 Sep 1962 JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate University of Mississippi
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29 Sep 1962 Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
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29 Sep 1962 Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
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30 Sep 1962 JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi
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30 Sep 1962 KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting
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30 Sep 1962 KMEX TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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30 Sep 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
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30 Sep 1962 New York Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play and beat New York 5-1
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30 Sep 1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
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30 Sep 1962 James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
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30 Sep 1962 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi
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01 Oct 1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
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01 Oct 1962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977
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01 Oct 1962 James Meredith became 1st black at University of Mississippi
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01 Oct 1962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests
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01 Oct 1962 Lucy Show premieres
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01 Oct 1962 San Francisco beat the Dodgers, 8-0 in 1st of best-of-3 NL playoff
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01 Oct 1962 UN gives Netherlands control of New-Guinea
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01 Oct 1962 WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Oct 1962 First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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02 Oct 1962 San Francisco beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game
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03 Oct 1962 "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert NYC for 886 performances
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03 Oct 1962 Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184
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03 Oct 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
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03 Oct 1962 Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
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04 Oct 1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
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05 Oct 1962 Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do"
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05 Oct 1962 Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
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05 Oct 1962 The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom.
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06 Oct 1962 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
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07 Oct 1962 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
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08 Oct 1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
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08 Oct 1962 Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuvre called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason.
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08 Oct 1962 Algeria joins the United Nations.
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09 Oct 1962 Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
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09 Oct 1962 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
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09 Oct 1962 Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
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10 Oct 1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
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11 Oct 1962 Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
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11 Oct 1962 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on the Merv Griffin Show
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11 Oct 1962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
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12 Oct 1962 US / USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology
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12 Oct 1962 Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
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13 Oct 1962 The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
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13 Oct 1962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen
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14 Oct 1962 Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs. New York Titans 56-17
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14 Oct 1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament
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14 Oct 1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba
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14 Oct 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
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15 Oct 1962 WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Oct 1962 Byron R White appointed to the Supreme Court
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16 Oct 1962 KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Oct 1962 New York Yankees appear in 12 and win 9 of last 14 World Series
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16 Oct 1962 Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series
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16 Oct 1962 Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
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16 Oct 1962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
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16 Oct 1962 Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in 59th World Series (NY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series)
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17 Oct 1962 Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
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18 Oct 1962 Dr Watson (US) and Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
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18 Oct 1962 JFK meets Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko
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18 Oct 1962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance"
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18 Oct 1962 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
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19 Oct 1962 Stalin-monument removed in Prague
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20 Oct 1962 "Mr President" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 265 performances
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20 Oct 1962 Chinese army lands in India
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20 Oct 1962 Musical, "Mr President, " written by Irving Berlin, opens on Broadway
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20 Oct 1962 People's Republic of China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
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21 Oct 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
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22 Oct 1962 JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
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22 Oct 1962 JFK receives Ugandan Premier Milton Obote
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22 Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
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22 Oct 1962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
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22 Oct 1962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
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23 Oct 1962 Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis
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23 Oct 1962 WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
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23 Oct 1962 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800 m
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24 Oct 1962 In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins
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25 Oct 1962 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation
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25 Oct 1962 Stevenson demands USSR amb Zorin answer regarding Cuban missle bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
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25 Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
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25 Oct 1962 Uganda joins the United Nations.
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25 Oct 1962 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
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25 Oct 1962 110th member of the UN admitted (Uganda)
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25 Oct 1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
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26 Oct 1962 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" and"Ask Me Why"
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26 Oct 1962 JFK warns Russia US will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
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26 Oct 1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected
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26 Oct 1962 Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"
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27 Oct 1962 "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances
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27 Oct 1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
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27 Oct 1962 Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
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27 Oct 1962 A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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28 Oct 1962 New York Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington Redskins (49-34)
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28 Oct 1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
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28 Oct 1962 End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
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28 Oct 1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
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01 Nov 1962 Cuban missile crisis ends, JFK says USSR is dismantling missile bases
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01 Nov 1962 Greece enters European Common Market
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01 Nov 1962 KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Nov 1962 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
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01 Nov 1962 WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Nov 1962 WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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02 Nov 1962 JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
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03 Nov 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs. LA Lakers
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04 Nov 1962 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
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04 Nov 1962 In a test of the Nike Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Atoll. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
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06 Nov 1962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
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06 Nov 1962 Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
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06 Nov 1962 Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
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06 Nov 1962 Saudi Arabia proclaims abolishing slavery
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06 Nov 1962 UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
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07 Nov 1962 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
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08 Nov 1962 Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape
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09 Nov 1962 Dutch Catharina Lodders elected Miss World
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10 Nov 1962 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 performances
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15 Nov 1962 Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
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16 Nov 1962 Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
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16 Nov 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 73 points vs. New York Knicks
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16 Nov 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points vs NY
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17 Nov 1962 "Little Me" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 257 performances
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17 Nov 1962 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 9 performances
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17 Nov 1962 President Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington DC
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19 Nov 1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
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19 Nov 1962 KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Nov 1962 Todor Zjivkov becomes Premier of Bulgaria
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20 Nov 1962 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
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20 Nov 1962 USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, and US lifts blockade
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20 Nov 1962 US lifts blockade of Cuba
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24 Nov 1962 Last of Dutch militia leave New-Guinea
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25 Nov 1962 WBJA (now WMGC) TV channel 34 in Binghamton, New York (ABC) 1st broadcast
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26 Nov 1962 1st recording session under name "Beatles"
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26 Nov 1962 Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms
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26 Nov 1962 Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles
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26 Nov 1962 1st recording session under the name "Beatles"
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27 Nov 1962 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
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28 Nov 1962 Telegraph between Netherlands and Indonesia restored
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29 Nov 1962 Great-Britain and France decide to jointly build Concorde
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29 Nov 1962 Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
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30 Nov 1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary General of the UN unanimously
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01 Dec 1962 Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
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01 Dec 1962 KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Dec 1962 50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
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02 Dec 1962 Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
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03 Dec 1962 Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
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03 Dec 1962 Pravda criticizes western art
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06 Dec 1962 US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
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07 Dec 1962 Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
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08 Dec 1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 performances
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08 Dec 1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City
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08 Dec 1962 Failed coup in Brunei
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08 Dec 1962 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
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08 Dec 1962 Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
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09 Dec 1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
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09 Dec 1962 Tanganyika becomes a Republic within British Commonwealth
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09 Dec 1962 The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
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10 Dec 1962 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
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11 Dec 1962 Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
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13 Dec 1962 NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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13 Dec 1962 Relay 1 communication satellite launched
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14 Dec 1962 Mariner 2 makes 1st US fly-by of another planet (Venus)
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14 Dec 1962 NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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14 Dec 1962 Mariner 2 launched, makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
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15 Dec 1962 Vaughn Meader's "The 1st Family" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 weeks
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16 Dec 1962 Nepal gets constitution / becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy
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16 Dec 1962 Constitutional Monarchical Hindu State of Nep
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16 Dec 1962 New York Giant YA Tittle sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
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16 Dec 1962 David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" premieres
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17 Dec 1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)
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17 Dec 1962 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
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18 Dec 1962 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
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18 Dec 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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18 Dec 1962 WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Dec 1962 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
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19 Dec 1962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
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19 Dec 1962 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
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20 Dec 1962 D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova, " premieres in Moscow
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20 Dec 1962 The Osmond brothers debut on the Andy Williams Show
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20 Dec 1962 Dmitri Shostakovich opera "Katerina Ismailova" premieres in Moscow
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21 Dec 1962 Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
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21 Dec 1962 Angolin leaves Comecon
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21 Dec 1962 US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
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22 Dec 1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
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22 Dec 1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
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22 Dec 1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
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22 Dec 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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23 Dec 1962 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion
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23 Dec 1962 Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
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24 Dec 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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25 Dec 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
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27 Dec 1962 28th Heisman Trophy Award: Terry Baker, Oregon State (QB)
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28 Dec 1962 UN troops occupy Elizabethstad Katanga
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29 Dec 1962 Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 17 years 8 days
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30 Dec 1962 Green Bay Packers beat the New York Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game
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31 Dec 1962 "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
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31 Dec 1962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
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31 Dec 1962 Katanga becomes part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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31 Dec 1962 Dutch leave New Guinea
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31 Dec 1962 Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cincinnati for 10 years
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