Timeline 1962
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1962 Jan 1, Samoa
became independent from New Zealand. Malietoa Tanumafili II nursed
Samoa to independence and presided as head of state jointly for 16
months and thereafter on his own for 43 years.
(www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1842.htm)(SFCM, 10/14/01,
p.45)(Econ, 5/26/07, p.101)
1962 Jan 3, Pope John XXIII
excommunicated Fidel Castro.
(MC, 1/3/02)
1962 Jan 4, The 1st automated
(unmanned) subway train ran in NYC.
(MC, 1/4/02)
1962 Jan 10, Eruptions on Mount
Huascaran in Peru destroyed 7 villages and killed 3,500.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1962 Jan 12, The United States
resumed aid to the Laotian regime.
(HN, 1/12/99)
1962 Jan 13, Ernie Kovacs
(b.1919), comedian and TV star, died at age 42 in a car crash in west
Los Angeles. ''Nothing in moderation'' was his credo and appeared on
his epitaph.
(AP,
1/13/98)(www.nytimes.com/1990/05/13/books/nothing-in-moderation.html?scp=4)
1962 Jan 18, The U.S. sprayed
foliage with pesticide in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the
whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas.
(HN, 1/18/99)
1962 Jan 21, Snow fell in the SF
Bay Area and accumulated to about 3 inches in Daly City.
(SFEM, 12/22/96, p.20)(GDCH, 1986, p.14)
1962 Jan 23, British spy Kim
Philby defected to USSR.
(MC, 1/23/02)
1962 Jan 23, Jackie Robinson
(1919-1972) became the first African-American elected to Baseball Hall
of Fame.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0732697/bio)
1962 Jan 26, Bishop Burke of
Buffalo Catholic dioceses declared Chubby Checker's "Twist" is impure
& banned it from all Catholic schools.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1962 Jan 26, The United States
launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon, but the
probe missed its target by some 22,000 miles.
(AP, 1/26/98)
1962 Jan 26, Charles "Lucky"
Luciano (65), NYC Mafia gangster, died.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1962 Jan 27, The SF Bay Area
hosted the Chubby Checker Twist Party at the Cow Palace. 17,000 fans
made it the 1st big rock concert in Bay Area history.
(SFC, 1/26/02, p.D1)
1962 Jan 28, Elliot Joslin
(b.1869), American pioneering diabetes researcher, died. He had argued
that controlling the level of glucose in a person’s bloodstream was the
key to managing type 2 diabetes.
(www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1848826&pageindex=1)
1962 Jan 30, Two members of the
"Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person
pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit.
(AP, 1/30/98)
1962 Jan 31, At the Eighth Meeting
of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OAS, held in
Punta del Este, Uruguay, ministers suspended Cuba’s membership.
(www.cidh.oas.org/countryrep/Cuba79eng/intro.htm)(Econ, 4/11/09, p.34)
1962 Jan, The US Navy SEAL (Sea
Air Land) force was formed with personnel from underwater demolition
teams.
(www.seal.navy.mil/seal/abo_history.asp)
1962 Feb 3, President John F.
Kennedy banned all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs.
(HN, 2/3/99)
1962 Feb 4, Russian newspaper
Izvestia reported baseball is an old Russian game.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1962 Feb 5, French President
Charles De Gaulle called for Algeria's independence.
(AP, 2/5/97)
1962 Feb 5, Sun, Moon, Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn aligned within a 16 degree arc.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1962 Feb 5, Jacques Ibert (71),
French composer (Escales), died.
(MC, 2/5/02)
1962 Feb 7, Sam Snead won the LPGA
Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1962 Feb 7, President Kennedy
began the blockade of Cuba.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1962 Feb 8, The U.S. Defense
Department reported the creation of the Military Assistance Command in
South Vietnam.
(HN, 2/8/98)
1962 Feb 9, An agreement was
signed to make Jamaica an independent nation within the British
Commonwealth later in the year.
(AP, 2/9/02)
1962 Feb 10, The Soviet Union
exchanged captured American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for Rudolph
Ivanovich Abel, a Soviet spy held by the United States.
(AP, 2/10/97)
1962 Feb 12, Pres. Kennedy
commuted the death sentence of Jimmie Henderson, a Navy seaman, to
confinement for life.
(AP, 7/29/08)
1962 Feb 12, A bus boycott started
in Macon, Georgia.
(MC, 2/12/02)
1962 Feb 14, First lady Jacqueline
Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.
(AP, 2/14/98)
1962 Feb 17, Beach Boys introduced
a new musical style with their hit "Surfin."
(MC, 2/17/02)
1962 Feb 17, Bruno Walter (85),
symphony conductor (NY Philharmonic), died.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1962 Feb 18, Robert F. Kennedy
said that U.S. troops would stay in Vietnam until Communism was
defeated.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1962 Feb 18, France & Algerian
Moslems negotiated a truce to end 7 year war. [see Mar 18]
(MC, 2/18/02)
1962 Feb 20, U.S. Marine
Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to
orbit the earth. Launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Glenn made three
90-minute orbits of the earth in Friendship 7, radioing down to Earth,
"Oh, that view is tremendous!" The mission also provided important
information about what it was like for an astronaut to be weightless
for a long period of time. When the ship's automatic altitude control
system began to fail, Glenn, a decorated World War II pilot, took
manual control for the rest of the flight. During Friendship 7's
approach to Earth, Glenn saw some flaming material breaking off the
capsule, but the parachute opened and the capsule landed safely in the
Atlantic Ocean. It was some time later that NASA mission control
determined that the sparks were crystallized water vapor released by
Friendship 7's air-conditioning system. Friendship 7's flight lasted
four hours and 56 minutes.
(AP, 2/19/98)(HNPD, 2/20/99)(MC, 2/20/02)
1962 Feb 22, A Soviet bid for new
Geneva arms talks was turned down by the U.S.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1962 Feb 24, New York police
seized $20 million worth of heroin.
(HN, 2/24/98)
1962 Feb 25, Maria Ludovica De
Angelis (b.1880) died in Argentina. She helped expand hospital services
for children. In 2004 she was beatified by Pope John Paul VI.
(AP, 10/3/04)
1962 Feb 26, Arthur Kopit's "Oh,
Dad, Poor Dad..." premiered in NYC.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1962 Feb 26, Wilt Chamberlain of
NBA Philadelphia Warriors scored 67 points vs. New York.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1962 Feb 26, US Supreme court
disallowed race separation on public transportation.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1962 Feb 26, After becoming the
first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn told a joint meeting of
Congress, "Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge have always paid
dividends in the long run."
(AP, 2/26/02)
1962 Feb 27, South Vietnamese
president Ngo Dinh Diem was unharmed as two planes bombed the
presidential palace in Saigon. The 1st US national was killed. Although
Diem had shortcomings as a leader, he had led South Vietnam for eight
years and at the time of his death was attempting to deal with Buddhist
factionalism.
(HN, 2/27/98)(MC, 2/27/02)
1962 Feb, The Joint Chiefs of
Staff and Deputy Defense Sec. Roswell Gilpatric approved a plan to
"lure or provoke Castro, or an uncontrollable subordinate, into an
overt hostile reaction against the US."
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A12)
1962 Feb, An organization of
African states was established by leaders of 20 nations meeting in
Lagos, Nigeria.
(PCh, 1992, p.983)
1962 Mar 1, A US Army memorandum
was put out titled "Possible Actions to Provoke, Harass or Disrupt
Cuba."
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A4)
1962 Mar 1, US-British nuclear
test experiment took place in Nevada.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1962 Mar 1, The first Kmart, a
60,000-sq.-ft. store, opened in Garden City, Mich. It was originally
know as Kresge's, a five and dime store founded in 1899. The company
was modernized under Harry B. Cunningham and re-opened as Kmart less
than 30 miles from Kresge's headquarters in downtown Detroit.
(http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n4_v31/ai_11875088/)
1962 Mar 1, American Airlines 707
plunged nose 1st into Jamaica Bay, NY, killing 95.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1962 Mar 1, Uganda became a
self-governing country under PM Benedicto Kiwanuka.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda)
1962 Mar 2, Jon Bon Jovi (John
Bongiovi) was born. (singer, musician, songwriter: You Give Love a Bad
Name, Living on a Prayer)
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1962 Mar 2, Wilt "The Stilt"
Chamberlain (d.1999 at 63) scored 100 points and broke an NBA record as
the Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks 169-147 in Hershey
Pa. before 4,124 fans. Chamberlain broke NBA marks for the most field
goal attempts (63), most field goals made (36), most free throws made
(28), most points in a half (59), most field goal attempts in a half
(37), most field goals made in a half (22), and most field goal
attempts in one quarter (21). The 316 total points scored tied an NBA
record. The basketball used for the game was stolen by Kerry Ryman (14)
after he shook Chamberlain’s hand. Ryman’s ball was auctioned in 2000
for $551,844.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)(SFC, 10/13/99, p.A13)(SFC,
4/29/00, p.A2)
1962 Mar 2, JFK announced US will
resume above ground nuclear testing.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1962 Mar 3, British Antarctic
Territory was formed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1962 Mar 4, AEC announced 1st
atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1962 Mar 5, The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that airports must compensate people living in the near vicinity
for noise and vibrations.
(HN, 3/5/98)
1962 Mar 6, US promised Thailand
assistance against "communist" aggression.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1962 Mar 9, US "advisors" in
South-Vietnam joined the fight.
(MC, 3/9/02)
1962 Mar 9, Egyptian Pres. Nasser
declared Gaza belongs to Palestinians.
(MC, 3/9/02)
1962 Mar 10, The Phillies baseball
club left the Jack Tar Harrison Hotel due to its refusal to admit black
players, and moved to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater,
Florida.
(http://tinyurl.com/mdtvxu)
1962 Mar 13, John F. Kennedy met
Cameroon President Ahmadou Ahidjo.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1962 Mar 13, The US Joint Chiefs
of Staff endorsed a series of ideas as "suitable for planning purposes"
aimed at discrediting Fidel Castro.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A4)
1962 Mar 15, Richard Rodger's
musical "No Strings," premiered in NYC for 580 performances.
(MC, 3/15/02)
1962 Mar 16, US Lockheed
Super-Constellation disappeared above Pacific Ocean and 167 were killed.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1962 Mar 17, Moscow asked the U.S.
to pull out of South Vietnam.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1962 Mar 18, France and Algerian
rebels agreed to a truce, which took effect the next day.
(HN, 3/18/98)(AP, 3/18/08)
1962 Mar 19, Relative calm
returned to Algeria after cease-fire, ending 7 years of warfare between
French and Algerian Nationalists.
(AP, 3/19/03)
1962 Mar 20, C. Wright Mills (45),
US sociologist (Power Elite), died.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1962 Mar 21, A female black
bear was taken aboard a B-58 bomber out of Edwards Air Force Base in
California, flown up to 35,000 feet at a supersonic speed of 850 miles
per hour, and ejected from the bomber in a specially made capsule. She
landed safely, and became the first living creature to survive a
parachute jump from a plane flying faster than sound.
(www.worldhop.com/Journals/J1/Bear1.html)
1962 Mar 21, Dutch RC Bishop
Willem Bekkers declared himself in favor of birth control. The church
in the Netherlands tried to promote a more liberal view of birth
control. But their view did not prevail.
(http://tinyurl.com/lpxof8)
1962 Mar 23, Pres. John F. Kennedy
visited San Francisco and spoke at UC Berkeley on the 100th anniversary
of the Morrill Act. “For this university and so many other universities
across our country owe their birth to the most extraordinary piece of
legislation this country has ever adopted, and that is the Morrill Act,
signed by President Abraham Lincoln in the darkest and most uncertain
days of the Civil War, which set before the country the opportunity to
build the great land grant colleges of which this is so distinguished a
part. Six years later this university obtained its Charter.”
(http://tinyurl.com/6fbdog)
1962 Mar 23, William DeWitt bought
the Cincinnati Reds for $4,625,000.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1962 Mar 24, Emile Griffith
knocked out Benny Paret (b.1937) in the 12th round at Madison Square
Garden. 10 days later on April 3 Paret died from the beating. Referee
Ruby Goldstein was blamed by many for not stopping the fight soon
enough.
(www.ringsidereport.com/vitotrabucco972004.htm)(SFC,
4/20/05, p.E1)
1962 Mar 25, French OAS-leader
ex-general Jouhaud was arrested.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1962 Mar 25, Auguste Piccard (78),
Swiss explorer, balloonist, died.
(MC, 3/25/02)
1962 Mar 26, The U.S. Supreme
Court in Baker vs. Carr gave federal courts the power to order
reapportionment of seats in a state legislature, a decision that
eventually led to the doctrine of "one man, one vote." It arose from a
Tennessee case in which Carr was the state attorney general.
(AP, 3/26/02)(SFC, 8/1/03, p.A27)
1962 Mar 28, The U.S. Air Force
announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and
satellites.
(HN, 3/28/98)
1962 Mar 29, Jack Paar hosted
NBC's "Tonight" show for the final time. He was succeeded by Johnny
Carson (Oct 1) who stayed to 1992.
(SFEC, 2/23/96, z-1 p.2)(AP, 3/29/97)
1962 Mar 29, Cuba opened the trial
of the Bay of Pigs invaders.
(HN, 3/29/98)
1962 Mar 30, M.C. Hammer, [Stanley
Kirk Burrell], rapper (Hammer Time), was born in Oakland, Ca.
(MC, 3/30/02)
1962 Mar 31, Cesar Chavez (d.1993)
founded the United Farm Workers Union on his birthday.
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A14)
1962 Mar, Army commander Ne Win
staged a coup against a civilian government and took over control of
Burma.
(SFC, 5/22/96, p.C-1)(SFC,12/31/97, p.A10)(AP,
4/10/04)
1962 Apr 3, Manolis Kalomiris
(78), Greek opera composer, died.
(MC, 4/3/02)
1962 Apr 5, Herb Gardner's
"Thousand Clowns," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1962 Apr 5, NASA civilian pilot
Neil A. Armstrong took the X-15 to 54,600 m.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1962 Apr 5, St. Bernard Tunnel was
finished and Swiss and Italians workers shook hands.
(MC, 4/5/02)
1962 Apr 8, The Bay of Pigs
invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.
(HN, 4/8/98)
1962 Apr 9, In the 34th Academy
Awards "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell won.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1962 Apr 9, JFK threw out the 1st
ball at Washington's new DC Stadium.
(MC, 4/9/02)
1962 Apr 13, US steel industry was
forced to give up price increases.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1962 Apr 16, Walter Cronkite
succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
(AP, 4/16/97)
1962 Apr 16, Brazil nationalized
US businesses.
(MC, 4/16/02)
1962 Apr 20, New Orleans Citizens
Committee gave a free one-way ride to blacks to move North.
(HN, 4/20/98)
1962 Apr 20, NASA civilian pilot
Neil A. Armstrong took the X-15 to 63,250 m.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1962 Apr 20, The Secret Army
Organization (OAS) leader and ex-general Salan was arrested in Algiers.
(MC, 4/20/02)(PCh, 1992, p.984)
1962 Apr 24, The Massachusetts
Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a
television signal, between Camp Parks, Ca., and Westford, Mass.
(AP, 4/24/02)
1962 Apr 25,
Operation Dominic began with a test blast on Christmas Island. The
operation was a series of 105 nuclear test explosions conducted in 1962
and 1963 by the United States. Those conducted in the Pacific are
sometimes called Dominic I. The blasts in Nevada are known as Dominic
II.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Dominic_I_and_II)
1962 Apr 25, U.S. Ranger
spacecraft crash landed on the Moon.
(HN, 4/25/98)
1962 Apr 29, In the 16th Tony
Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed won.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1962 Apr 30, Milton Obote took
over as prime minister of Uganda.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Uganda)
1962 Apr, Jean-Claude Forest
(d.1998) created the 41st century Barbarella sci-fi comic character for
V Magazine. It was censored in France and barred from advertising or
sale to minors until the early 1970s.
(SFC, 1/2/99, p.C2)
1962 May 2, OAS struck in Algeria.
(MC, 5/2/02)
1962 May 3, William A, Eddy
(b.1896), former US minister to Saudi Arabia (1944-1946), died. In 2008
Thomas W. Lippman authored “Arabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy, USMC,
and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East.”
(Econ, 11/8/08, p.102)
1962 May 5, The West Side Story
soundtrack album went to #1 and stayed #1 for 54 weeks, more than 20
weeks longer than any other album.
(MC, 5/5/02)
1962 May 6, In the first test of
its kind, the submerged submarine USS Ethan Allen fired a Polaris
missile armed with a nuclear warhead that detonated above the Pacific
Ocean.
(AP, 5/6/97)(HN, 5/6/98)
1962 May 6, Pathet Lao broke cease
fire and conquered Nam Tha Laos.
(MC, 5/6/02)
1962 May 7, A Pulitzer prize was
awarded to Theodore H. White (Making of President).
(MC, 5/7/02)
1962 May 8, The Stephen Sondheim
musical comedy "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" opened
at the Alvin Theater in NYC for 965 performances.
(AP, 5/8/97)(SFEC, 5/31/98, BR p.6)(MC, 5/8/02)
1962 May 8, London trolley buses
went out of service.
(MC, 5/8/02)
1962 May 9, A laser beam was
successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.
(HN, 5/9/98)
1962 May 11, US sent troops to
Thailand.
(MC, 5/11/02)
1962 May 12, Dick Calkins,
co-author of Buck Rogers, died at 67.
(SC, Internet, 5/12/97)
1962 May 13, Franz Kline (b.1910),
American painter of abstract expressionist style, died of a heart
attack in NYC. He was known for dramatic, easy-to-recognize pictures of
big black slashes against snowy backgrounds. His early work was
as a cartoonist and bar decorator. His portraits sketches of patrons
still line the walls of the Minetta Tavern in Greenwich Village, N.Y.
Kline’s hot brush stroke was parodied in Roy Lichtenstein’s pixilated
"Brushstroke" series, where RL provided a cool version of Kline’s hot
stroke.
(WSJ, 12/16/94,
A-12)(www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_77.html)
1962 May 14, Princess Sophia of
Greece wed Don Juan Carlos of Spain.
(MC, 5/14/02)
1962 May 15, US marines "arrived"
in Laos.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1962 May 19, Marilyn Monroe sang
"Happy Birthday" to Pres. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden while
wearing a dress described as "skin and beads." In 1999 the dress sold
for $1.15 million at Christie's auction house.
(SFC, 10/28/99, p.A3)
1962 May 19, R.C., "Shout! Shout!
(Knock Yourself Out)" by Ernie Maresca peaked at #6 on the pop singles
chart.
(DTnet, 5/19/97)
1962 May 19, Stan Musial broke
Honus Wagner's NL baseball hit record with 3,431.
(MC, 5/19/02)
1962 May 19, Indonesian
paratroopers landed in New Guinea.
(MC, 5/19/02)
1962 May 23, OAS leader general
Raoul Salan was sentenced to life in prison. French general Raoul Salan
led a failed army revolt in Algeria (July, 1960) and then fled abroad,
continuing to direct increasing terrorist Secret Army Organization
(OAS) attacks on the French and Algerian governments, turning the
Algerian War of Independence into a three-way war in Algeria and a
right-wing guerrilla insurrection in France.
(http://tinyurl.com/d8qm2)
1962 May 23, Ruben Jaramillo,
Mexican agrarian reformer, was assassinated along with his family by
state forces.
(SFC, 12/31/96, p.C9)(AP, 5/23/04)
1962 May 24, Astronaut Scott
Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew
aboard Aurora 7.
(AP, 5/24/97)
1962 May 25, Isley Brothers
released "Twist & Shout."
(SC, 5/25/02)
1962 May 25, US performed fizzled
nuclear test at Christmas Island. The Tanana blast was part of
Operation Dominic.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Dominic_I_and_II)
1962 May 25, US unions AFL-CIO
started campaign for a 35-hour work week.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1962 May 30, Benjamin Britten's
"War Requiem," premiered.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1962 May 31, Adolph Eichmann
(b.1906), Gestapo official and Nazi war criminal, was hanged near Tel
Aviv, Israel, for his role in the Nazi murder of over one million Jews.
He had been nabbed in Argentina by Peter Malkin in 1960 and taken to
Israel for trial. This was the first execution to take place in the
state Israel. Eichmann completed 1,300 notebook pages while in prison
and they were OK'd for publication in 1999. In 1963 Hannah Arendt
authored "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil."
(SFEC, 11/3/96, Par p.13) (AP, 5/31/97)(HN,
5/31/99)(SFC, 8/11/99, p.C4)(WSJ, 8/31/99,
p.A22)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann)
1962 May, The stock market decline
coincided with Pres. Kennedy’s attack on the steel industry and
Attorney General Kennedy’s antitrust suits against numerous American
industries. Kennedy launched a price-fixing investigation after US
Steel raised prices by $6 a ton and other steel-makers followed suit.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.B2)(WSJ, 5/12/03, p.A6)
1962 May, A memo from the CIA
briefing for Attorney Gen’l. Robert Kennedy revealed that $150,000 was
offered to the US mob for the assassination of Fidel Castro. The mob
insisted on doing the job at no charge.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.A5)
1962 May, US Pvt. Larry Abshier
(19) deserted to North Korea and later died there of natural causes.
(SFC, 8/16/04, p.A5)
1962 Jun 1, "The Dinah Shore Show"
(TV Variety) aired for the last time on NBC after 10 years.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1962 Jun 1, USAF Maj. Robert M
White took the X-15 to 40,420 m.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1962 Jun 2, Vita Sackville-West
(b.1892), English poet, novelist and gardener, died. She helped create
her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent. She was famous for her exuberant
aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affairs with
women like novelist Virginia Woolf. Her son Nigel gave her estate to
the National Trust, a conservation charity. In 2008 Adam Nicolson
authored “Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History.”
(Econ, 10/04/08,
p.91)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West)
1962 Jun 3, Lee Harvey Oswald
arrived by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1962 Jun 4, Lee Harvey Oswald
departed Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1962 Jun 4, William Beebe
(b.1877), US biologist, explorer, died. In 2004 Carol Grant Gould
authored “The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and
Naturalist.”
(NH, 2/05,
p.54)(www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9014090)
1962 Jun 7, Joseph A. Walker, NASA
civilian test pilot, took the X-15 to 31,580 meters.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1962 Jun 11, Frank Lee Morris,
John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz and disappeared
into the SF Bay. Their fate was never resolved. The 1979 film "Escape
From Alcatraz" with Clint Eastwood was based on this event.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A20)(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W38)(SFC,
12/1/98, pA3)
1962 Jun 22, The Hovercraft was
1st tested.
(MC, 6/22/02)
1962 Jun 25, The Supreme Court
ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New
York public schools was unconstitutional.
(AP, 6/25/97)(HN, 6/25/98)
1962 Jun 27, NASA civilian pilot
Joseph Walker took the X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m.
(SC, 6/27/02)
1962 Jun 28, Thalidomide was
banned in Netherlands.
(MC, 6/28/02)
1962 Jun, In Iran a police attack
on the Faizieh Theological School in Qom started Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini's rebellion against the Shah.
(WSJ, 8/11/99, p.A1)
1962 Jul 1, Some 6 million of a
total Algerian electorate of 6.5 million cast their ballots in the
referendum on independence. The vote was nearly unanimous. De Gaulle
pronounced Algeria an independent country on July 3. The Provisional
Executive, however, proclaimed July 5, the 132nd anniversary of the
French entry into Algeria, as the day of national independence.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)
1962 Jul 3, Jackie Robinson became
the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball
Hall of Fame.
(HN, 7/3/98)
1962 Jul 3, French Pres. Charles
De Gaulle pronounced Algeria an independent country following the July
1 elections. De Gaulle evacuated Algeria and a million settlers flooded
into France.
(WSJ, 11/16/95,
p.A-18)(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)
1962 Jul 5, Algeria’s Provisional
Executive proclaimed July 5, the 132nd anniversary of the French entry
into Algeria, as the day of national independence. French Pres. Charles
De Gaulle pronounced Algeria an independent country on Jul 3 following
the July 1 elections. A massacre in Oran, Algeria, left 96 dead.
(www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/a5ky8)
1962 Jul 6, The US tested a 104
kiloton nuclear device in Nevada in "Project Sedan" and blew a hole
1,280 feet wide and 320 feet deep. It was one of many "Plowshare"
experiments to see if atomic detonations could be used for large scale
peaceful purposes.
(SFC,12/23/97, p.A3)
1962 Jul
6, William Cuthbert Faulkner (b.1897), US writer (Nobel 1949), died in
Oxford, Miss. In 2004 Jay Parini authored “One Matchless Time: A Life
of William Faulkner.”
(WSJ, 10/28/04,
p.A1)(www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner_william/)
1962 Jul 7-1962 Jul 17, Operation
Sunbeam was a series of four nuclear tests conducted at the United
States of America's Nevada Test Site.
(www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Operation_Sunbeam)
1962 Jul 7, In Burma Sein Lwin
headed the army unit that shot dead Rangoon University students
protesting Ne Win's rule.
(AP, 4/10/04)
1962 Jul 10, Martin Luther King
Jr. was arrested during a demonstration in Georgia.
(MC, 7/10/02)
1962 Jul 10, The communications
satellite Telstar, developed by Bell Labs, was launched from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, beaming live television from Europe to the United
States.
(AP, 7/10/97)(HN, 7/10/98)(WSJ, 8/21/06, p.A2)
1962 Jul 11, The Telstar I
satellite carried the first transatlantic TV transmission. It picked up
broadcast signals from France and bounced them down to an antenna in
Maine, delivering the first live television picture from Europe to
America.
(PGA, 12/9/98)(www.lucent.com/minds/telstar/fit.html)
1962 Jul 11, Cosmonaut Micolaev
set longevity space flight record -- 4 days.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1962 Jul 14, Borehole for Mont
Blanc-tunnel, between France and Italy, was finished. [see Aug 14]
(MC, 7/14/02)
1962 Jul 20, Dmitri Shostakovitch
completed his 13th Symphony.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1962 Jul 20, George Macaulay
Trevelyan (86), English royal historian, died.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1962 Jul 21, 160 civil right
activists were jailed after demonstration in Albany, Ga.
(MC, 7/21/02)
1962 Jul 22, Mariner I was
launched for Venus, veered off course within seconds, and was ordered
destroyed. It was later found that a single hyphen from the computer
launch code was missing.
(SFEM, 8/22/99, p.9)
1962 Jul 23, The Geneva Conference
on Laos forbade the United States to invade eastern Laos, site of the
Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(HN, 7/23/98)
1962 Jul 27, Martin Luther King
Jr. was jailed in Albany, Georgia.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1962 Jul 28, 19 died in a train
crash in Steelton, Pa.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1962 Jul 28, Mariner I, launched
to Mars, fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1962 Jul, Pres. Kennedy installed
a taping system in the White House.
(WSJ, 11/15/99, p.A48)
1962 Aug 4, Nelson Mandela was
captured by South African police.
(MC, 8/4/02)
1962 Aug 5, Actress Marilyn
Monroe (36) was found dead in her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled
a "probable suicide" from an overdose of sleeping pills. Movie actress,
model, singer, Judaism convert, RN: Norma Jean Mortenson Baker; Joe
DiMaggio's, then Arthur Miller's ex-wife. Her films included "Some Like
It Hot." In 1999 Barbara Leaming authored the biography "Marilyn
Monroe." In 1969 Fred Lawrence Guiles (d.2000 at 79) authored "Norma
Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe."
(AP, 6/1/97)(DTnet, 6/1/97)(SFEC, 1/24/99, BR
p.9)(SFC, 8/1/00, p.B2)
1962 cAug 5, Russia set off a
40-megaton atomic bomb as part of a new test series.
(SFC, 8/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/24/99, p.E9)
1962 Aug 5, Nelson Mandela was
arrested for incitement and illegally leaving South Africa.
(MC, 8/5/02)
1962 Aug 6, Jamaica became an
independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 8/6/97)
1962 Aug 9, Hermann Hesse (85),
winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1946), died in Switzerland.
(iUniv. 7/2/00)(MC, 8/9/02)
1962 Aug 10, Appointed by Pres.
Kennedy, Gen. Edward Landsdale participated in a meeting of the Special
Group Augmented where discussion of assassinating foreign leaders was
discussed. Highlights of the meeting were written down in a memorandum
dated Aug 13. Attorney General Robert Kennedy was the augmented member.
(WSJ, 2/13/96, p.A-14)
1962 Aug 11, The Soviet Union
launched cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev on a 94-hour flight.
(AP, 8/11/97)
1962 Aug 12, A day after launching
Andrian Nikolayev into orbit, the Soviet Union launched Vostok 4 with
cosmonaut Pavel Popovich; both men landed safely on Aug 15.
(AP, 8/12/02)
1962 Aug 14, Robbers held up a
U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass., making off with more than $1.5
million.
(AP, 8/14/97)
1962 Aug 14, French and Italian
workers broke through at the Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel. [see Jul 14]
(MC, 8/14/02)
1962 Aug 15, Shady Grove Baptist
Church was burned in Leesburg, Georgia.
(MC, 8/15/02)
1962 Aug 15, US Pvt. James Joseph
Dresnok (21) defected to North Korea. His wife had recently divorced
him and he faced a court-martial. A British film crew met with Dresnok
in 2004. A documentary about his defection, "Crossing the Line," was
released in 2006 and made it to DVD in 2008.
(SFC, 8/16/04, p.A5)(AFP,
1/29/07)(http://tinyurl.com/m59l5v)
1962 Aug 15, Lei Feng (b.1940), a
Chinese revolutionary soldier, died after being hit by a falling
telephone pole.
(WSJ, 4/12/08,
p.R6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_Feng)
1962 Aug 16, The Beatles dropped
Pete Best as their drummer. They took on Ringo Starr on Aug 17. Best
later authored the autobiography "Beatle! The Pete Best Story."
(SFC, 7/5/02, p.G5)(MC, 8/16/02)
1962 Aug 17, Beatles replaced Pete
Best with Ringo Starr.
(SC, 8/17/02)
1962 Aug 17, East German border
guards shot and mortally wounded 18-year-old Peter Fechter, who had
attempted to cross over the Berlin Wall into the western sector.
(AP, 8/17/97)
1962 Aug 18, Peter, Paul and Mary
released their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer."
(MC, 8/18/02)
1962 Aug 18, Pres. J.F. Kennedy
led the official groundbreaking ceremonies for the San Luis Joint-Use
Complex, Ca. In 1961 the state and feds had agreed to the project which
required the B.F. Sisk San Luis Dam for storage of flows pumped from
the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Sisk Dam was named after
Congressman B.F. Sisk of Fresno.
(CDWR, brochure)
1962 Aug 18, In Iran brothers,
Ahmad and Mahmoud Khayami founded "Iran National" to manufacture cars.
After the 1979 Islamic Revolution it became known as Iran Khodro. Their
later Paykan design was based on the 1967 Hillman Hunter, which was
originally designed and manufactured by the British Rootes Group.
Mahmoud Khayami is also known for starting the Kourosh Department
Stores: the first large retail chain stores of Iran, not unlike their
American counterparts Sears and Kmart.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Khayami)
1962 Aug 21, Matthew Broderick,
actor (Ferris Buehler, Biloxi Blues), was born.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1962 Aug 22, Savannah, world's 1st
nuclear powered ship, completed here maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va.,
to Savannah, Ga.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1962 Aug 22, There was a failed
assassination on president De Gaulle.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1962 Aug 25, USSR performed
a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk.
(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1962 Aug 27, The United States
launched the Mariner 2 space probe with an Atlas D booster. On December
14, 1962, Mariner 2 passed within just over 20,000 miles of Venus,
reporting an 800F surface temperature, high surface pressures, a
predominantly carbon dioxide atmosphere, continuous cloud cover, and no
detectable magnetic field.
(AP, 8/27/97)(SFEM, 8/22/99,
p.9)(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-041A.html)
1962 Aug 29, Rebecca DeMornay,
actress: Risky Business, The Three Musketeers, Guilty as Sin,
Backdraft, was born.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1962 Aug 29, A US U-2 flight saw
SAM launch pads in Cuba.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1962 Aug 31, The Caribbean nation
of Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the British
Commonwealth. Eric Williams, a Marxist historian, led the country to
independence.
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A9)(AP, 8/31/97)(Econ, 8/26/06, p.29)
1962 Aug, The first recorded
description of the social interactions that could be enabled through
networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT
discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally
interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly
access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very
much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the
computer research program at DARPA, 4 starting in October 1962. While
at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob
Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of
this networking concept.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, Z1
p.3)(www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins)
1962 Sep 1, UN announced Earth’s
that human population has hit 3 billion.
(MC, 9/1/02)
1962 Sep 1, Some 10,000 died in an
earthquake in western Iran.
(SC, 9/1/02)
1962 Sep 3, e[dward] e cummings
(ee cummings), US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), died at 67.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1962 Sep 11, The Beatles recorded
their first single for EMI, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You," at EMI
studios in London. The recording contract was offered by producer
George Martin. Drummer Ringo Starr joined John, Paul and George for his
first recording session as a Beatles, replacing Pete Best. "Love Me Do"
was the result and it took 17 takes to complete.
(AP, 9/11/97)(SFC, 11/11/98, p.E3)(MC, 9/11/01)
1962 Sep 11, Thurgood Marshall was
appointed a judge of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
(HN, 9/11/98)
1962 Sep 17, The first federal
suit to end public school segregation was filed by the U.S. Justice
Department.
(HN, 9/17/98)
1962 Sep 17, U.S. space officials
announced the selection of nine new astronauts, including Neil A.
Armstrong, who became the first man to step onto the moon.
(AP, 9/17/02)
1962 Sep 20, Black student James
Meredith was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by
Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted. A Life Magazine
photograph around this time showed 7 sheriffs gathered at Ole Miss to
keep Meredith out. In 2003 Paul Hendrickson authored "Sons of
Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy," in which he uncovered the
lives of the 7 sheriffs.
(AP, 9/20/97)(SSFC, 4/6/03, p.M1)
1962 Sep 23, "The Jetsons," a TV
animated Hanna-Barbera cartoon series about a Space Age family,
premiered as the ABC television network's first color program. It was a
futuristic mirror image of the Flintstones. Penny Singleton (1908-2003)
was the voice of Jane Jetson.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D7)(AP, 9/23/02)(SFC, 11/15/03,
p.A23)
1962 Sep 23, New York's
Philharmonic Hall, since renamed Avery Fisher Hall, formally opened as
the first unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Opening
ceremonies included the premier of Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto by
John Browning (d.2003) and the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf.
(AP, 9/23/97)(SFC, 1/30/03, p.A17)
1962 Sep 24, US Circuit Court of
Appeals ordered James Meredith admitted to the Univ. of Miss. The
University of Mississippi agreed to admit James Meredith as the first
black university student, sparking more rioting.
(HN, 9/24/98)(MC, 9/24/01)
1962 Sep 25, Sonny Liston knocked
out Floyd Patterson in round one to win the world heavyweight title at
Comiskey Park in Chicago.
(AP, 9/25/02)
1962 Sep 25, A Black church was
destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1962 Sep 26, The cult film
"Carnival of Souls" premiered in Lawrence, Kan., where parts of it had
been filmed.
(AP, 9/26/02)
1962 Sep 26, TV comedy series
"Beverly Hillbillies" premiered on CBS. The Beverly Hillbillies,
produced by Paul Henning (1912-2005), became the top ranking network
show on television for two seasons with rankings of 36 and 39.1%. The
show ran to 1971.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(WSJ, 5/26/98, p.B1)(SFC,
3/26/05, p.B5)
1962 Sep 26, In North Yemen a
group of military officers led by Col. Adbullah al-Sallal and supported
by Egypt overthrew the Imam and established a republic.
(SFC, 1/19/01, p.D6)
1962 Sep 30, Black student James
Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the
University of Mississippi. He became the first black to enroll at Old
Miss Univ. and 13,500 Federal troops were required to back him up. U.S.
Marshals escorted James H. Meredith into the University of Mississippi;
two died in the mob violence that followed. Meredith was also noted for
starting the "March Against Fear" to encourage voter registration by
Southern African Americans. While on the march he was hit with a
snipers bullet. Other Civil Rights leaders including MLK continued the
march. Meredith was able to complete the march in Jackson, Mississippi.
(TMC, 1994, p.1962)(AP, 9/30/97)(HN, 9/30/98)
1962 Sep 30, Howard Duff signed
off his radio show as "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" for the last time.
It was declared by Gerald Nachman to mark the last moment of vintage
radio. In 1998 Nachman published "Raised on Radio."
(SFEC, 12/27/98, BR p.3)
1962 Oct 1, Johnny Carson
succeeded Jack Paar as regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show. Carson
received an on-air introduction from Groucho Marx; the guests on his
debut program were Joan Crawford, Rudy Vallee, Tony Bennett, Mel
Brooks and The Phoenix Singers.
(AP, 10/1/02)
1962 Oct 1, Barbra Streisand
signed her 1st recording contract with Columbia.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1962 Oct 1, James Meredith became
1st black at U of Mississippi. [see Sep 30]
(MC, 10/1/01)
1962 Oct 1, Ludwig Bemelmans
(1898), Austrian-born writer of children’s books, died in NYC. His 1st
Madeline book was published in 1939.
(www.kidsreads.com/series/series-madeline-author.asp)
1962 Oct 3, "Stop the World"
opened at Shubert NYC for 886 performances.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1962 Oct 3, The SF Giants beat the
LA Dodgers to win baseball's National League Pennant.
(SFC, 11/24/99, p.E9)
1962 Oct 3, Astronaut Wally
Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma 7 on a
nine-hour flight.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1962 Oct 5, The Beatles' first
hit, "Love Me Do," was first released in the United Kingdom.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1962 Oct 9, Uganda became an
independent state within the Britain Commonwealth. [see Mar 1]
(PCh, 1992, p.984)(SFC, 5/4/96, P.A-10)(AP, 10/9/04)
1962 Oct 11, The US Trade
Expansion Act was enacted under pres. Kennedy. It include a federal
program called the Trade Adjusted Assistance (TAA), which offered
superior unemployment benefits to US manufacturing and farm workers who
lose jobs due to imports or production shifts out of country.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Expansion_Act)(http://tinyurl.com/d9q7sa)(WSJ,
4/20/09, p.A1)
1962 Oct 11, Pope John XXIII
convened the first session of the Roman Catholic Church's 21st
Ecumenical Council, also known as Vatican II, with a call for Christian
unity. This was the largest gathering of the Roman Catholic hierarchy
in history. Among delegate-observers were representatives of major
Protestant denominations, in itself a sign of sweeping change. He
declared its purpose to be "aggiornamento," an "updating" that would be
a pastoral response to the needs of the modern world. It allowed for
vernacular languages in the Liturgy and continued to 1965, when it
published "Gaudium et Spes," the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in
the Modern World.
(CU, 6/87) (AP, 10/11/97)(HN, 10/11/98)
1962 Oct 12, Columbus Day storms
washed out the 1962 World Series game at Candlestick Park in SF.
(SFCM, 9/25/05, p.4)
1962 Oct 13, Jerry Rice, football
player, was born. He played as a San Francisco '49er wide receiver:
Super Bowl XXIII, XXIV, XXIX.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1962 Oct 13, The four-character
drama "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," by Edward Albee, opened on
Broadway with Uta Hagen (d.2004) as Martha and Arthur Hill as George.
The opening coincided with co-star Melinda Dillon's 23rd birthday.
(SFC, 1/16/04, p.A23)(AP, 10/13/07)
1962 Oct 14, The CIA U-2 mission
detected Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. Air Force pilot Maj.
Richard Heyser and CIA contract pilot James Barnes Jr. (d.1999 at 70)
identified missile sites in separate flights.
(SFC, 9/17/97, p.A3)(SFC, 7/13/99, p.A19)
1962 Oct 15, Byron R. White
(1917-2002) was appointed to the US Supreme Court by Pres. Kennedy.
(MC, 10/15/01)(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A5)
1962 Oct 16, The Cuban missile
crisis began as President Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance
photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
(AP, 10/16/97)
1962 Oct 16-1962 Oct 29, The Cuban
missile crises. Russia under Khrushchev removed its missiles from Cuba.
The 13-day missile crises was in part recorded by Kennedy on tape and
published in 1997: "The Kennedy Tapes," ed. by Ernest R. May and Philip
D. Zelikow.
(SFEC, 8/25/96, Parade p.6)(TMC, 1994, p.1962)(WSJ,
9/23/97, p.A20)
1962 Oct 18, Dr. James D. Watson
of the United States and Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. Maurice Wilkins
(d.2004) of Britain, were named winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine
and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular
structure of DNA.
(AP, 10/18/02)(SFC, 3/19/98, p.C4)
1962 Oct 18, JFK met Russian
minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko.
(MC, 10/18/01)
1962 Oct 20, The musical, "Mr.
President," written by Irving Berlin, opened on Broadway.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1962 Oct 20, A Chinese army landed
in India for a brief border war in the Himalayas.
(WSJ, 5/16/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 11/29/96,
p.A1)(http://countrystudies.us/nepal/19.htm)
1962 Oct 22, President John F.
Kennedy announced that missile bases had been discovered in Cuba and
they had the potential to attack the United States with nuclear
warheads. Kennedy ordered a naval and air blockade on further shipment
of military equipment to Cuba. The Russians had previously agreed not
to bring new offensive weapons into Cuba, but after hearing Kennedy's
announcement, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev refused to cooperate
with the quarantine. Following a confrontation that threatened nuclear
war, Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on October 28 on a formula to end the
crisis. On November 2 Kennedy reported that Soviet missile bases in
Cuba are being dismantled.
(AP, 10/22/97)(HNPD, 10/22/98)(HN, 10/22/02)
1962 Oct 23, US ambassador Adlai
Stevenson spoke at UN about Cuba crisis.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1962 Oct 24, The U.S. blockade of
Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a proclamation
signed by President Kennedy.
(AP, 10/24/97)
1962 Oct 24, The Russian Mars
1962A Flyby failed to leave Earth orbit after the final rocket stage
exploded.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1962 Oct 25, American author John
Steinbeck (62) was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
(WUD, 1994, p.1392)(AP, 10/25/97)
1962 Oct 25, U.S. ambassador Adlai
E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in
Cuba to the U.N. Security Council. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson
demanded USSR and Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I
am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over."
(AP, 10/25/97)(MC, 10/25/01)
1962 Oct 26, JFK warned Russia
that the US would not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1962 Oct 26, The USS Beale tracked
and dropped practice depth charges on a Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine
which was armed with a nuclear torpedo. Running out of air, the Soviet
submarine was surrounded by American warships and desperately needed to
surface to recharge its batteries. An argument broke out among three
officers on the B-39, including submarine captain Valentin Savitsky,
political officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, and chief of staff of
the submarine flotilla, Commander Vasiliy Arkhipov. A totally exhausted
Savitsky became furious and ordered that the nuclear torpedo on board
be made combat ready. Accounts differ about whether Commander Arkhipov
convinced Savitsky not to make the attack, or whether Savitsky himself
finally concluded that the only reasonable choice left open to him was
to come to the surface.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis)
1962 Oct 26, Nikita Khrushchev
sent note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US
closed its bases in Turkey. The offer was rejected.
(MC, 10/26/01)
1962 Oct 27, "Beyond the Fringe"
opened at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances. It
starred Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan
Bennett.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1962 Oct 27, Fatso Marco (56),
comedian (Milton Berle Show), died.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1962 Oct 27, With its batteries
running low, submarine B-59/C-19 was forced to surface and headed east.
Although surrounded by US ships, submarine captain Vitali Savitsky
realizes that they are not in a "state of war; one of the destroyers
has a lively band playing jazz. The Cony communicates with it via
flashing lights; Savitsky identifies the submarine as "Ship X"
("Korablx") and declines assistance. B-59 identifies itself to other
nearby ships as "Prinavlyet" (by the U.S.S. Murray), and "Prosnablavst"
(by the Bache and the Barry). Aircraft illuminate and photograph it.
(www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/subchron.htm)
1962 Oct 27, Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev offered to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S.
removed its missile bases in Turkey. It was later learned that JFK had
secretly offered this option to Khrushchev.
(HN, 10/27/98)(MC, 10/27/01)(NPR, 2002)
1962 Oct 28, Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the
dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. Radio Moscow reported
nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated. Kennedy and Khrushchev agreed on
a formula to end the Cuban missile crisis: the Russians would dismantle
their bases and the United States would publicly promise not to invade
Cuba.
(AP, 10/28/97)(HN, 10/22/98)(HNPD, 10/22/98)(MC,
10/28/01)
1962 Oct 31, Bobby Pickett
(1938-2007) made a one-time hit with “Monster Mash,” as it reached No.
1 on Halloween.
(SFC, 4/27/07, p.B9)
1962 Oct, Linus Pauling won the
Nobel Peace Prize. In 1954 he won a Nobel in Chemistry.
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.E1)(SFC, 10/8/01, p.A17)
1962 Oct, Max Perutz (1914-2002),
Austrian-born molecular biologist, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for
his work in England on the structure of hemoglobin.
(Econ, 8/25/07,
p.77)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Perutz)
1962 Nov 1, Greece entered the
European Common Market.
(http://europa.eu.int/abc/history/1962/index_en.htm)
1962 Nov 1, The Russian Mars 1
Flyby was launched but communications failed en route.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1962 Nov 2, Pres. Kennedy reported
that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled.
(HN, 10/22/98)
1962 Nov 4, The Russian Mars 1962B
Lander failed to leave Earth orbit.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.B1)
1962 Nov 6, Edward M. Kennedy was
1st elected as Senator (D) in Mass.
(MC, 11/6/01)
1962 Nov 6, Saudi Arabia abolished
slavery.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1992/saudi/INTROTHR.htm)
1962 Nov 6, The UN General
Assembly adopted resolution 1761 (XVII), which established a Special
Committee on Apartheid in South Africa. The non-binding resolution
called upon members "separately or collectively, in conformity with the
charter" to break diplomatic relations with South Africa, to close
ports to South African vessels, to forbid vessels flying their flags to
enter South African ports, to boycott South African trade, and to
suspend landing rights for South African aircraft. The committee held
its first meeting on April 2, 1963.
(Econ, 9/15/07,
p.74)(www.anc.org.za/un/reddy/aamun.htm)
1962 Nov 7, Richard M. Nixon, who
failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called
his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to
kick around anymore." Nixon's loss was in part due to the revelation
that that his Washington home was being sold under a "restrictive
covenant," that prevented a sale to a black or Jewish buyer.
(AP, 11/7/97)(SFEM, 4/11/99, p.41)
1962 Nov 7, Former first lady
(1933-1945) Eleanor Roosevelt (b.1884) died in New York City and was
buried near her husband at their estate in Hyde Park, New York. [see
Nov 10]
(AP, 11/7/97)(SFEC, 2/7/99, Par p.7)(HNPD,
10/11/99)(MC, 11/7/01)
1962 Nov 10, Eleanor Roosevelt was
buried.
(HN, 11/10/00)
1962 Nov 14, Laura San Giacoma,
actress (Pretty Woman, Vital Signs), was born in Danville, NJ.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1962 Nov 15, Cuba threatened to
down U.S. planes on reconnaissance flights over its territory.
(HN, 11/15/98)
1962 Nov 17, Washington's Dulles
International Airport opened in rural Virginia and was dedicated by
President Kennedy. The terminal was designed by Finnish-born architect
Eero Saarinen. The airport spawned a high-tech corridor that by 2005
sat in the fastest growing county in the US.
(Hem., 5/97, p.68)(AP, 11/17/97)(Econ, 11/26/05,
p.80)
1962 Nov 17, Arthur Vining Davis
(95), CEO (Alcoa-1910-57), died in Miami.
(MC, 11/17/01)
1962 Nov 18, Niels Bohr (77),
Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), died.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1962 Nov 19, S.N. Behrman's "Lord
Pengo," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1962 Nov 19, Fidel Castro accepted
the removal of Soviet weapons.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1962 Nov 20, President Kennedy
barred religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
(HN, 11/20/98)
1962 Nov 20, USSR agreed to remove
bombers from Cuba and US lifted its blockade.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1962 Nov 21, China agreed to a
cease-fire on India-China border.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1962 Nov 26, The Beatles made
their 1st recording session under the "Beatles" name.
(MC, 11/26/01)
1962 Nov 29, Great Britain and
France agreed on a joint venture to build the super sonic Concorde jet.
(WSJ, 7/26/00, p.A26)(MC, 11/29/01)
1962 Nov 30, U Thant of Burma, who
had been acting secretary-general of the United Nations following the
death of Dag Hammarskjold the year before, was elected to a four-year
term.
(AP, 11/30/08)
1962 Nov, The Chieftains were
founded by Paddy Moloney in northern Dublin as a traditional Irish band.
(WSJ, 3/17/98, p.A16)
1962 Dec 5, Pres. Kennedy
discussed stockpiling nuclear weapons to deter Soviet attacks with
senior staff including Def. Sec. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell Taylor.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A4)
1962 Dec 7, Great Britain
performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1962 Dec 8, A 114-day newspaper
strike began in NYC.
(MC, 12/8/01)
1962 Dec 9, "I Can Get It For You
Wholesale" closed on Broadway.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1962 Dec 10, "Lawrence of Arabia,"
David Lean's epic film starring Peter O'Toole as British officer T.E.
Lawrence, had its royal gala premiere in London.
(AP, 12/10/02)
1962 Dec 14, The U.S. space probe
Mariner 2 approached Venus, transmitting information about the planet.
(AP, 12/14/97)
1962 Dec 14, North Rhodesia's
first African-dominated government was formed under Kenneth Kaunda.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1962 Dec 17, Thomas Mitchell (70),
US, actor (Outlaw), died of cancer.
(MC, 12/17/01)
1962 Dec 19, Transit 5A1, the 1st
operational navigational satellite, was launched.
(MC, 12/19/01)
1962 Dec 20, In its first free
election in 38 years, the Dominican Republic chose leftist Juan Bosch
Gavino, the leftist leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party, as
president. Juan Bosch (1909-2001) was toppled in the Dominican Republic
by the army shortly after being elected. His plans for land reform
would have split up sugar plantations owned by generals.
(SFC, 5/17/96, p.A-14)(SFC, 5/12/98, p.A21)(HN,
12/20/98)(SFC, 11/2/01, p.D6)
1962 Dec 21, A US and Cuba accord
released Bay of Pigs captives.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1962 Dec 23, Cuba started
returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion.
(MC, 12/23/01)
1962 Dec 25, The Bay of Pigs
captives who were ransomed, vowed to return and topple Castro.
(HN, 12/25/98)
1962 Dec 26, Eight East Berliners
escaped to West Berlin, crashing through gates in an armor plated bus.
(HN, 12/26/98)
1962 Dec, The Surfaris, formed
near LA in September, recorded "Surfer Joe" and the flip side hit
"Wipeout." Band members were Jim Fuller (15) lead guitar, Ron Wilson
(18) drummer, Robert Berryhill (15) rhythm guitar, Pat Conolly (15)
bass. Saxophonist Jim Pash (13) was not there.
(WSJ, 8/15/01, p.A1)
1962 Dec, Pres. Kennedy proposed a
tax cut.
(WSJ, 5/30/96, p.A14)
1962 Dec, Pres. Kennedy commuted
the sentence of Junius Scales (d.2002 at 82), who had served 15 months
for being a member of the Communist Party. Scales was 1st arrested in
1954 and was later convicted and sentenced to 6 years in prison, the
only American ever sent to prison for being a CP member.
(SFC, 8/8/02, p.A22)
1962 Dec, In Paraguay army captain
Napoleon Ortigoza was imprisoned by Alfredo Stroessner's security
apparatus on charges of conspiring to topple the right-wing military
strongman. He spent the first 18 years of confinement chained in a
police holding cell and later escaped house arrest and made his way to
the Colombian embassy.
(AP, 1/20/06)
1962 Claire Falkenstein
(1908-1997), sculptor and painter, created the gates for Peggy
Guggenheim’s palazzo in Venice.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A22)
1962 Roy Lichtenstein made his pop
art painting "BLANG!"
(WSJ, 5/2/97, p.C1)
1962 Robert Rauschenberg created
his piece "Barge."
(WSJ, 9/25/97, p.A20)
1962 Ben Shahn painted his "Heron
of Calvary No. 1."
(WSJ, 12/1/98, p.A20)
1962 George Tooker (b.1920),
painted "Mirror I," a de La Tour inspired painting of a woman looking
into a mirror with a skull behind her.
(NH, 10/96, p.39)
1962 Andy Warhol gained famed with
his "Soup Can" series. He also created his "Red Liz" work.
(WSJ, 11/21/96, p.A8)(WSJ, 11/13/98, p.W16)
1962 David Smith made his
sculpture "Voltri VI."
(SFEM, 11/24/96, p.62)
1962 Herbert Palmer, a Los Angeles
art dealer, began compiling an art reference library. It spanned all
areas of art collecting and featured monographs on 20th-century artists.
(HT, 5/97, p.58)
1962 Herbert E. Alexander
(1927-2008), political scientist at USC, authored “Financing the 1960
Election.” His work pioneered the field of campaign finance studies.
(SFC, 4/8/08, p.B5)
1962 Giorgio Bassani (d.2000 at
84) of Italy authored his semi-autobiographical novel: "The Garden of
the Finzi-Continis." In 1971 a film version by Vittorio De Sica with
Dominique Sanda won a Hollywood Oscar for the Best Foreign Film.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, DB p.40)(SFC, 4/14/00, p.D5)
1962 Daisy Bates (d.1999 at 87)
authored "The Long Shadow of Little Rock." It was about the 1956
desegregation of the Little Rock bus system and the 1957 integration of
Central High.
(SFC, 11/5/99, p.D7)
1962 Jan and Stan Berenstain
(1923-2005) published their 1st Berenstain Bears book: “The Big Honey
Hunt.” They developed the stories with Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)
and went on to publish over 200 books in the series.
(SFC, 11/30/05, p.B7)
1962 Helen Gurley Brown (b.1922)
authored "Sex and the Single Girl." In 2009 Jennifer Scanlon authored
“Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown.”
(NW, 6/23/03, p.65)(WSJ, 4/10/09, p.W7)
1962 Eugene Burdick and Harvey
Wheeler (d.2004) co-authored “Fail-Safe,” a novel about an accidental
nuclear attack on Russia. A film version was made in 1964.
(SFC, 9/18/04, p.B7)
1962 "Naked Lunch" by William
Burroughs was published in the US after a precedent-setting obscenity
trial. He also published "The Ticket That Exploded."
(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.B6)
1962 Rachel Carson (d.1964)
published "Silent Spring" and exposed the pesticide industry and its
effects on the environment: "They should not be called ‘insecticides’,
but ‘biocides.’" Carson entered the Pennsylvania College originally
planning to major in English. Instead, she grew more interested with
the natural world, graduating in 1929 with a bachelor’s degree in
biology. After graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and a teaching
stint, she worked for the U.S. government until the early `50s. She
combined her interests in writing and ecology and reached a wide
audience with the publication of her first book, Under the Sea-Wind
(1941). Her following works were also praised for their scientific
accuracy and readable prose. Her book "Silent Spring," which documented
the contribution of pesticides to declining songbird populations, came
out when DDT and similar insecticides were used in abundance.
(NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.70)(HNQ, 4/18/01)
1962 Joan Crawford, film actress,
published her autobiography, "Portrait of Joan," written by Jane
Ardmore (d.2000 at 88).
(SFC, 8/23/00, p.A26)
1962 Alan Dugan (1923-2003) won
the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his book "Poems." At the
time Dugan worked in a factory where he made plastic vaginas used to
demonstrate diaphragm insertion.
(SSFC, 9/7/03, p.A29)
1962 Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
and his wife Rose published "Capitalism and Freedom," a good summary of
Friedman’s economic thinking.
(WSJ, 5/27/98, p.A20)(Econ, 3/6/04, p.74)
1962 Herbert Gans authored "The
Urban Villagers," a study of the working-class in Boston’s West End.
(WSJ, 8/23/00, p.A6)
1962 Jacob Getzels (d.2001 at 89)
authored "Creativity and Intelligence."
(SFC, 4/17/01, p.A20)
1962 Eugene Ionesco, French
absurdist playwright, wrote his play “Exit the King.”
(Econ, 4/4/09, p.86)
1962 The 1st edition of “History
of Art” by H.W. Janson was published.
(WSJ, 3/11/05, p.W7)
1962 James Jones (d.1977) wrote
"The Thin Red Line."
(SFC, 10/12/97, DB p.52)
1962 Ken Kesey (1935-2001)
published his novel: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest."
(WSJ, 5/15/00, p.A46)(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A1)
1962 "The Structure of Scientific
Revolution" by Berkeley Prof. Thomas Samuel Kuhn (1923-1996), eminent
historian of science, was published. Kuhn distinguished between
ordinary science, which solves problems within a particular paradigm
and revolutionary science, which introduces a new world view.
(V.D.-H.K.p.211)(SFC, 6/21/96, p.E2)
1962 "A Wrinkle in Time" by
Madeline L'Engle was published.
(SFEC, 2/27/00, BR p.12)
1962 Doris Lessing wrote her
novel: "The Golden Notebook." It focused on female sexuality and
consequences of oppositional thinking. In 1994 the first volume of her
autobiography, "Under My Skin," was published. In 1997 "Walking in the
Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography," by Doris Lessing was published.
(SFC, 5/26/96, BR p.4)(SFEC, 9/14/97, BR p.5)
1962 The Ross McDonald (aka
Kenneth Millar) Lew Archer mystery "The Zebra-Striped Hearse" was
published.
(WSJ, 4/28/99, p.A16)
1962 Walker Percy (1916-1990),
physician, novelist (Lancelot), won the National Book Award for his
book "The Moviegoer."
(WSJ, 3/26/03, p.D8)
1962 Alexander Solzhenitsyn (43)
published "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch." It first appeared
in the Soviet magazine Novy Mir. In 1998 D.M. Thomas published the
biography: Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life." In 1985
Michael Scammell published his biography: "Solzhenitsyn."
(SFEC, 3/8/98, BR p.9)
1962 Dido Sotiriou authored
“Farewell Anatolia,” a novel of 2 shepherd boys, one Christian and one
Muslim, who go off to fight on opposite sides during the Greek-Turkish
war of 1919-22.
(Econ, 7/17/04, p.79)
1962 John Steinbeck published his
American journal "Travels with Charley." It was based on a 1960 trip
across America with his French poodle.
(SFEC, 6/21/98, DB p.35)(SSFC, 2/24/02, p.M1)
1962 Dr. Edward Thorpe published
"Beat the Dealer," a player’s guide on how to win in casino blackjack.
(SFC, 11/3/98, p.C2)
1962 Nicolo Tucci ( d.1999 at 91)
published his first English novel "Before My Time." Tucci had worked
for the propaganda ministry of Benito Mussolini, but moved to NY in
1938 and took up anti-fascist propaganda.
(SFC, 12/16/99, p.A33)
1962 "Animal Dispersion in
Relation to Social Behavior" by V.C. Wynne-Edwards was published.
(NH, 5/96, p.13)
1962 Marvel comics introduced "The
Incredible Hulk" and "The Amazing Spider Man."
(WSJ, 5/23/01, p.A24)
1962 Ralph Ginzburg (b.1929) began
publishing Eros, an erotic art quarterly in NYC. A year later he was
convicted in Philadelphia for salacious promotional methods. He wound
up serving 8 months of a 5 year sentence.
(SFC, 7/7/06, p.B9)
1962 Herb Gardner’s comedy "A
Thousand Clowns" was first staged.
(WSJ, 7/26/96, p.A9)
1962 The Broadway show "Little Me"
played with burlesque star Joey Faye (d.1997) and Cid Caesar.
(SFC, 4/28/97, p.A18)
1962 The Broadway show "No
Strings" starred Richard Kiley and Diane Carroll. It was written by
Samuel Taylor and was the only Broadway musical for which Richard
Rogers wrote the music and lyrics.
(SFC, 3/6/99, p.A21)(SFC, 5/27/00, p.A26)
1962 Edward Albee’s "Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf" hit Broadway with the first public use of four
letter words.
(TMC, 1994, p.1962)
1962 The musical "Little Me" was
adopted by Paul Simon and based on the 1961 mock memoir by Patrick
Dennis of a farm girl turned Hollywood star.
(WSJ, 11/18/98, p.A20)
1962 The 1937 novel "I Can Get It
for You Wholesale" by Jerome Weidman was transformed into a Broadway
musical which featured Elliot Gould and the debut of Barbra Streisand.
(SFC, 10/8/98, p.C4)
1962 Robert Smith, a disk jockey
in Shreveport, La., took on the name "Wolfman Jack."
(SFC, 12/30/99, p.E3)
1962 The TV series "Combat"
starred Dick Peabody (d.2000 at 74) as private Littlejohn. The series
ran to 1967.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.D4)
1962 The "Match Game" with host
Gene Rayburn (d.1999 at 81) made its debut on Dec 31 and ran for 7
years.
(SFC, 12/3/99, p.D7)
1962 The BBC TV series "That Was
the Week That Was" began and ran through 36 episodes to 1963.
(SFC, 12/12/96, p.C8)
1962 The TV show "Frontier Circus"
featured Richard Hanley Jaeckel (d.1997) as cowboy scout Tony Gentry.
(SFC, 6/17/97, p.A22)
1962 The TV series “The Virginian”
starred James Drury and Doug McClure. It was based on the 1902 novel by
Owen Wister (1860-1938).
(AH, 10/02, p.20)
1962 Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
and Brian Jones made their 1st appearance as the Rolling Stones at a
London jazz club.
(SFC, 12/13/03, p.A2)
1962 "The War Requiem" by Benjamin
Britten premiered at the reconsecration of the bombed-out Coventry
Cathedral. It juxtaposed sections from the Mass for the Dead with verse
by WW I poet Wilfred Owen.
(SFEM, 5/17/98, p.6)
1962 Sir Michael Tippett, British
composer, premiered his 2nd opera "King Priam."
(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A19)
1962 Tony Bennett achieved int’l.
acclaim with the song "I left My Heart in San Francisco."
(SFEC, 9/8/96, DB p.62)
1962 Johnny Burke wrote the hit
song "Misty."
(WSJ, 2/2/00, p.W8)
1962 Miles Davis and Gill Evans
collaborated to produce "Quiet Nights," a bossa nova album.
(SFC, 9/1/96, DB p.42)
1962 The jazz tune "Easy Money"
was written by Benny Carter.
(SI-WPC, 1997)
1962 John Lee Hooker sang "Boom
Boom."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1962 Vinicius de Moraes, inspired
by the stroll of a young woman (18) headed for Copacabana, wrote a poem
that became known as “The Girl of Ipanema.” It was put to music by Jaoa
Gilberto and Stan Getz and sung by Gilberto’s wife, Astrud. The song
won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1964. The young woman, Heloisa
Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, never made a dime off the song but opened a
modeling agency and a clothing store near the site.
(SSFC, 9/30/07, p.G3)
1962 The 4 Osmond brothers, under
the direction of their father, George Osmond (1917-2007), debuted on
the Andy Williams show. Donny Osmond, at age 6, joined the group a year
later. Marie Osmond joined the group in 1973. In 1976 the Donny and
Marie show began on ABC.
(SFC, 11/9/07, p.B7)
1962 Mary Wells sang "You Beat me
to the Punch."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1962 The Miracles sang "You’ve
Really Got a Hold on Me."
(SFC, 11/12/02, p.D1)
1962 Quincy Jones produced the US
debut album of Nana Mouskouri: "The Girl from Greece Sings."
(SFC, 6/4/97, p.E1)
1962 Charles Mingus staged a
performance of his epic "Epitaph," a piece that mixed symphonic tone
poems with brassy big-band jazz. This was the only staging of the piece
during his lifetime and was not a success. It was used in the 1998 film
Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog."
(SFEC, 4/12/98, DB p.56)
1962 Bass Player Beverly Peer
(1913-1997) joined singer-pianist Bobby Short.
(SFC, 1/27/97, p.A20)
1962 The Beatles released their
first single: "Love me Do."
(SFEM, 3/9/96, p.20)
1962 Ray Charles made a hit with
"I Can’t Stop Loving You."
(SSFC, 7/28/02, Par p.20)
1962 Bob Dylan (b. Robert
Zimmerman May 24, 1941) released his first album “Bob Dylan.” Zimmerman
legally changed his name to Bob Dylan in this year.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.A3)(SFC, 9/26/05, C3)(SSFC,
11/20/05, Par p.4)
1962 Pat Boone recorded his hit
"Speedy Gonzalez."
(SFEC, 1/26/97 DB, p.40)
1962 Chas Chandler (1939-1996)
helped found the rock group "Animals" along with Hilton Valentine, Alan
Price, John Steel and Eric Burdon.
(SFC, 7/18/96, p.A22)
1962 The Four Seasons with lead
singer Frankie Valli had No. 1 hits with “Sherry” and “Big Girls Don’t
Cry.”
(WSJ, 11/2/05, p.D12)
1962 Jerry Garcia, later of the
Grateful Dead, played a 5-string banjo in the bluegrass band ‘The Hart
Valley Drifters," later renamed "The Wildwood Boys."
(xxxx)
1962 Mick Jagger and Keith
Richards formed The Rolling Stones in London.
(USAT, 3/24/99, p.5E)
1962 Lou Rawls (1935-2006)
released his 1st solo jazz album “Stormy Monday” recorded with the Les
McCann Trio.
(AP, 1/6/06)(SFC, 1/6/06, p.B5)
1962 The 1st Van Cliburn Int’l.
Piano Competition was held in Fort Worth, Texas.
(http://www.cliburn.org/page/117)
1962 Danny Thomas founded the St.
Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
(SSFC, 4/20/03, Par p.5)
1962 The McMath Solar Observatory
at Kitt Peak, Arizona, was completed. It was designed by architect
Myron Goldsmith (1918-1996). He also designed the Oakland coliseum and
the great silver canopy of the SF Bay Bridge toll plaza. He had studied
in Chicago under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(SFC, 7/17/96, A18)
1962 Ground was broken for the new
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford Univ., Ca. Atom smashing
began in 1966. [see Dec 11, 1952] US Congress had approved funds in
1961. The project was led by Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky (1919-2007).
(SFC, 9/30/02, p.A5)(SFC, 9/26/07, p.B7)
1962 The Dan Ryan freeway opened
along the south side of Chicago. It was named after a late president of
the Cook county Board of Commissioners.
(WSJ, 4/21/06, p.A1)
1962 The TWA terminal at Idlewild
was designed by Eero Saarinen (d.1961).
(Hem., 5/97, p.70)(HNQ, 1/28/01)
1962 The planned community in
Reston, Va., was built.
(SFC, 11/4/98, Z1 p.4)
1962 Time magazine called
Presbyterian Rev. Robert McAfee Brown (d.2001 at 71) "the Catholic’s
favorite Protestant." His books included "The Spirit of Protestantism."
(SFC, 9/13/01, p.C7)
1962 Jimmy Breslin, columnist for
the New York Herald-Tribune, began a new column based on day-to-day
city events based on conversations and insights and thus began the
style called the New Journalism.
(SFEC, 9/29/96, C15)
1962 Edward Keating (d.2003 at 77)
founded Ramparts, a small Catholic magazine that grew to become a
strong voice against the Vietnam War.
(SFC, 4/9/03, p.A31)
1962 Prof. Edward Shils (d.1995)
founded the quarterly journal Minerva. It focused on science, policy
and higher education.
(WSJ, 7/21/97, p.A22)
1962 Yves Saint Laurent (b.1936),
a fashion designer at the house of Dior, founded his own fashion house.
Laurent announced his retirement in 2002.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.D3)(SFC, 1/8/02, p.A6)
1962 Crown Point Press began
operating from a basement art-print shop in Richmond, Ca. It introduced
a whole generation of artists to the art of etching. "Ink, Paper,
Metal, Wood: Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press" by Kathan
Brown was published in 1996.
(SFEM, 9/22/96, p.36)(SFC,1/21/97, p.B4)
1962 Dr. Helen Glaser (d.1999 at
75) first called public attention to the adolescent problem of glue
sniffing in a paper published by the AMA.
(SFC, 10/7/99, p.C4)
1962 The holistic centers of
Esalen, Big Sur, Ca., and Findhorn, northeast Scotland, were founded.
Esalen featured on its faculty in the sixties such people as: Linus
Pauling, Paul Tillich, B.F. Skinner, Virginia Satir, Carlos Castaneda
and Ken Kesey.
(Hem, Mar. 95, p.87)
1962 In Berkeley, Ca., 4
Protestant seminaries formed the Graduate Theological Union. In 1964
theologian John Dillenberger (1918-2008) became its first president.
(SFC, 2/19/08, p.B3)
1962 Joshua Miner brought the
British Outward Bound program to the US. He studied its principals with
Kurt Hahn, a German refugee who founded the organization In Britain
during WW II as a survival training program or merchant seamen.
(WSJ, 7/24/97, p.A1)
1962 The Weatherly, a 12-meter
yacht designed by Philip H. Rhodes (d.1998 at 72) and his father Philip
L. Rhodes, successfully defended the America’s Cup.
(SFC, 5/27/98, p.C3)
1962 Football stars Paul Hornung
and Alex Karras were suspended for gambling on games.
(SFC, 12/7/96, p.A1)
1962 The SF Warriors basketball
team, formerly based in Philadelphia, chose the Cow Palace in Daly
City, Ca., as its new arena.
(SFC, 2/28/08, p.A11)
1962 Pres. Kennedy signed an
Executive Order maintaining the right of federal employees to join
unions and negotiate on many issues.
(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)
1962 The CIA established its
code-named Operation Mongoose spurred by Attorney Gen’l. Robert Kennedy
to get rid of Fidel Castro.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A4)
1962 Military spending this year
rose to $55 billion.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.A4)
1962 The Pentagon awarded a $7
billion contract to General Dynamics for the TFX fighter-bomber, later
known as the F-111. It rescued the company from a deep financial hole
and was $400 million more than a bid by Boeing.
(SFC, 11/18/96, p.B7)
1962 The US Supreme Court ruled in
Schempp vs. the Abington School District that the ceremonial reading of
the Bible and prayer in public schools is unconstitutional.
(SFC, 8/6/99, p.D4)
1962 A Federal court ruled that
the Hopi have exclusive use of District 6. The remainder of the
reservation became a Joint Use Area (JUA) with the Navajo.
(SFEC, 5/4/97, z1 p.4)
1962 Wolfgang Vogel, East Berlin
lawyer and confidant to Erich Honnecker, secured the release of US
pilot Gary Powers (captured 5/1/60) in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf
Abel. During his 30-year career he secured the release of more than 100
agents and helped shepherd nearly 34,000 political prisoners and
215,000 East Germans to freedom in the West. Powers, was returned to
the West across the Glienicker Bridge in Potsdam, Germany, after being
held for 21 months.
(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A14)(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T6)
1962 The first chemical munitions
arrived at Oregon’s Umatilla Chemical Depot and kept coming until 1969.
It was all done in secret.
(SFEC, 4/27/97,
p.A18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatilla_Chemical_Depot)
1962 Augustus F. Hawkins
(1907-2007) of south Los Angeles became the first black person from
California to be elected to the US Congress.
(SFC, 11/13/07, p.D9)
1962 General Electric dropped
Ronald Reagan from his $150,000 per year job as company representative
due to his political views. Reagan switched to the Republican Party.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F6)
1962 Jeane Dixon (1918-1997),
astrologer, told Ronald Reagan that he would someday be president.
(SFEC, 1/26/97, p.B6)
1962 The Virginia General Assembly
declared George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party an enemy of the
state.
(AH, 2/06, p.64)
1962 The SDS (Students for a
Democratic Society) issued its manifesto: "The Port Huron Statement"
that spoke of participatory democracy "as a code word for socialism."
This is described by David Horowitz in his 1997 book "Radical Son: A
Generational Odyssey."
(WSJ, 2/3/97, p.A12)
1962 Roger Murray (d.1998 at 86),
economist, worked for the passage of the Keogh Act, which enabled
self-employed people to have tax-deferred pension accounts. He earlier
had originated the individual retirement account (IRA).
(SFC, 4/18/98, p.A20)
1962 The Florida Miccosukee Indian
tribe gained federal recognition after its leaders made a state visit
to Fidel Castro.
(SFC, 12/29/98, p.A4)
1962 American Airlines rolled out
its proprietary computerized reservation system, Sabre.
(Econ, 4/3/04, p.70)
1962 Becton Dickinson became a
public company. Its shares first traded on the New York Stock Exchange
at $25 per share in 1963. The capital was used to make disposable
syringes and profits increased. There have been four stock splits since
then and the company has paid dividends to shareholders every year and
the rate has been increased annually.
( Horizon, Fall '95, p.13)(Calendar 1/97)(SFC,
4/13/98, p.A6)
1962 Binney & Smith Inc.,
makers of Crayola crayons, adopted the name "peach" to replace the
color "flesh."
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.B12)
1962 The B&O Railroad merged
with the Chesapeake & Ohio and disappeared completely in 1987.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, p.T6)
1962 Dow Jones launched the weekly
National Observer, a general interest national newspaper. The paper
closed in 1977 with cumulative losses of $16.2 million.
(WSJ, 8/1/07, p.B6)
1962 Charles Evans (1926-2007)
sold his Evan-Picone fashion house for a small fortune and reinvented
himself as a real estate developer in New Jersey and Connecticut. In
1981 he produced the film “Tootsie.”
(WSJ, 6/9/07, p.A6)
1962 Greyhound Corp. bought out
Boothe Leasing.
(SFC, 9/12/96, p.A26)
1962 Edwin Traisman (1915-2007),
food researcher for McDonald’s, patented a method for preparing frozen
French fried potatoes. In 1968 his associate Ken Strong patented a
method for quick frying cut potatoes before freezing along with a short
steam blanch to preserve sugars and other flavors. Traisman was
instrumental in the development of Cheese Whiz for Kraft Foods and had
bought the first McDonald’s franchise in Madison, Wis., in the late
1950s.
(SFC, 6/9/07, p.B6)
1962 Parker Brothers produced the
TV show board game: “Mr. Ed the Talking Horse.”
(SFC, 11/30/05, p.G3)
1962 The 1st Jeep Wagoneer, a
precurson to the SUV, ran in a 2-or-4 wheel drive mode.
(WSJ, 9/16/05, p.W12)
1962 The Stauffer Chemical Co.
began buying the Iron Mountain mine in northern California. Stauffer’s
was later bought by the French firm Rhone Poulenc.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A13)
1962 The Studebaker car company
went into bankruptcy. A little money left over went into the design and
production of a few hundred Avanti sports cars.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A12)
1962 Sam Walton of Bentonville,
Ark., founder of Wal-Mart (1950), started his Wal-Mart discount chain.
It became America's biggest retailer in 1990. In 2004 Liza Featherstone
authored “Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights
at Wal-Mart.” In 2006 Charles Fishman authored “The Wal-Mart Effect:
How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works – And How It’s
Transforming the American Economy” and Anthony Bianco authored “The
Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Wal-Mart’s Everyday Low
Prices is Hurting America.”
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)(Econ, 9/11/04, p.62)(Econ,
2/25/06, p.80, 85)
1962 Sears, the Chicago-based
retailer, hired film star Vincent Price to pick art pieces and serve as
spokesman for selling its “Vincent price Collection of Fine Art.”
(WSJ, 8/23/05, p.D8)
1962 The S.S. France cruise ship
entered transatlantic service.
(SFEC, 1/17/99, p.T12)
1962 Union Oil of California
(Unocal) introduced a large orange ball to display its “76” logo at
West Coast gas stations. The balls started coming down in 2003.
(WSJ, 1/20/07, p.A9)
1962 AT&T Bell Labs scientists
invented the communications satellite.
(WSJ, 9/22/95, p.A-7)
1962 Nick Holonyak Jr., an
engineer for General Electric, built the first light-emitting diode
(LED). GE patented the discovery.
(WSJ, 6/8/06, p.B6)(Econ, 9/23/06, TQ p.26)
1962 Charles Molnar (1935-1996)
and Wesley A. Clark led a team that developed a machine widely
considered as the first personal computer. They made the Laboratory
Instrument Computer (LINC) intended for doctors and medical
researchers. It was self-contained with a simple operating system. It
has a small display and used magnetic tape for storing programs.
(SFC, 12/16/96, p.A24)
1962 The first radar signals were
bounced off of the sun's surface and provided accurate figures for
geometrical measurements of the solar system.
(I&I, Penzias, p.179)
1962 NASA ended its Mercury 13
program. In 2003 Martha Ackermann authored "The Mercury 13: The Untold
Story of the Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight."
(SSFC, 6/15/03, p.M4)
1962 Ross Perot founded Electronic
Data Systems (EDS). The company pioneered the business of outsourced
data management. In 1984 Perot sold the firm to General Motors. GM spun
it off in 1996. In 2008 Hewlett-Packard acquired EDS for $13.9 billion.
(Econ, 5/17/08, p.78)
1962 Steve Russell at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology created "Spacewar!", one of the
earliest video games for a digital computer.
(AFP, 10/20/06)
1962 Walter Annenberg, owner of
the Philadelphia Enquirer, established the M.L. Annenberg School for
Communication at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
(SFC, 10/2/02, p.A2)
1962 Kohl’s discount department
store was founded in Wisconsin. The company went public in 1992 and by
2009 it counted 1,059 stores nationwide, including 121 in California.
(SFC, 8/5/09, p.C1)
1962 John Glenn went into space
for three orbits under the Mercury space program. He was able to circle
the Earth in 100 minutes. In case of mishap the Kennedy administration
had ready a plan called "Operation Dirty Trick" to blame any disaster
on Fidel Castro.
(TMC, 1994, p.1962)(Hem., 2/96, p.43)(SFC, 3/10/97,
p.A16)(SFC,11/19/97, p.A4)
1962 Arnold Friedman led the group
that compiled "Classification of Headache."
(WSJ, 6/17/96, p.A1)
1962 Dr. Robert Good (d.2003 at
81) identified the thymus gland as a primary source for the body's
defense mechanisms.
(SFC, 6/19/03, p.A1)
1962 The drug thalidomide crippled
thousands of babies.
(TMC, 1994, p.1962)
1962 Herpes was reported to have
been transmitted by an accidental needle stick.
(SFC, 4/13/98, p.A6)
1962 Boyd Stewart, a Marin, Ca.,
cattleman, helped create the Point Reyes National Seashore on 70,000
acres of grassland.
(SFC, 1/1/05, p.A14)
1962 A fire broke out in a garbage
dump above an abandoned coal mine in Centralia, Pen. The property had
been deeded to the town in 1954 for $1. The fire spread and burned for
years. In 1983 US Congress approved $42 million to help the residents
move, and by 2005 only about a dozen residents remained. In 2007 Joan
Quigley authored “The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining
Tragedy.”
(WSJ, 4/17/07, p.D6)
1962 A fire at the Golden Hotel in
Reno, Nev., claimed 6 lives.
(AP, 11/5/06)
1962 Rex Bell, cowboy film star,
died. His wife was Clara Bow.
(SFC, 6/1/01, p.C11)
1962 Elbert Botts (b.1893),
Caltrans chemist, died. He invented the "Botts dots," highway lane
markers that were first installed in California in 1966.
(SFC, 1/18/97, p.A15)
1962 Michael Dillon, born in
England in 1915 as Laura Dillon, died in Dalhousie, India. He was the
1st person to undergo a successful female-to-male sex change
(1946-1949). In the 1950s he fell in love with Roberta Cowell, a
pre-operative male-to-female. In 2007 Pagan Kennedy authored “The first
Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair and a
Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution.”
(SSFC, 3/18/07, p.M3)
1962 Robinson Jeffers (b.1887),
poet, died. In 2001 Tim Hunt edited "Selected Poetry of Robinson
Jeffers."
(SFC, 4/22/01, BR p.1)
1962 Morris Louis (b.1912),
artist, died.
(SFC, 7/31/01, p.B5)
1962 Marilyn Monroe died of an
overdose of sleeping pills.
(TMC, 1994, p.1962)
1962 Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of
former president Franklin Roosevelt, died.
(USAT, 6/28/96, p.13A)
1962 Al Tomaini, an 8-foot-4-inch
circus performer and husband to Jeanie Tomaini, billed as the "World’s
Only Living Half Woman," died.
(WSJ, 1/23/97, p.A12)
1962 Bruno Walter (b1876),
conductor, died in Beverly Hills. He published his autobiography "Theme
and Variations" in 1946. In 2001 Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky
authored the biography "Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere."
(WSJ, 8/16/01, p.A12)
1962 Abu Dhabi began exporting the
oil it just discovered off its shores.
(AP, 11/3/04)
1962 A gas fire in Algeria called
“The Devil’s Cigarette Lighter” had burned for 6 months until it was
put out by Texas firefighter Red Adair (1915-2004).
(Econ, 8/14/04, p.78)
1962 Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi war
criminal, was nabbed in Argentina by Peter Malkin in 1960 and taken to
Israel where he was tried, found guilty and hung.
(SFEC, 11/3/96, Par p.13)
1962 Australia granted Aborigines
the right to vote.
(Econ, 5/7/05, Survey p.14)
1962 In the Bahamas Huntington
Harford, A&P supermarket heir, persuaded the authorities to rename
Hog Island, across the bay from Nassau, to Paradise Island.
(WSJ, 7/1/98, p.A1)
1962 In Britain John Vassal
(1925-1996), an Admiralty clerk, was arrested for spying. He had been
blackmailed into spying as an attaché in Moscow in 1955 with
sex photographs with 2-3 men. The scandal helped to end the
career of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
(SFC, 12/6/96, p.B8)
1962 In Britain Investigative
reporter Peter Earle (d.1997 at 71) uncovered the call-girl ring run by
osteopath Stephen Ward. The investigation snowballed into the Profumo
scandal that revealed Minister of War, John Profumo, involved in an
affair with Christine Keeler, who was conducting a simultaneous affair
with a Soviet military attaché. The scandal brought down the
government of Prime minister Harold Macmillan. The events were
dramatized in the film "Scandal."
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.B8)
1962 Denys Fisher, an English
inventor, made a tool to help draw waves for scientific use, but it was
not adopted. His family thought it would a good toy for children and in
1965 it was made into a kit and showed at an int’l. toy show. Kenner
bought the toy and sold it as the Spirograph.
(SFC, 10/17/07, p.G2)
1962 Burundi gained independence
from Belgium. The United Nations trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi in
east-central Africa was divided into the independent nations of Rwanda
and Burundi. Prior to WWI the kingdoms of Ruanda and Urundi were made
part of German East Africa, which was conquered by British and Belgian
troops during WWI and became a Belgian mandate in 1923.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.A12)(HNQ, 11/4/99)
1962 The Int’l. Court of Justice
awarded the Preah Vihear temple, located on the Cambodia-Thai border,
to Cambodia, but did not specify where the border should be drawn.
(Econ, 7/26/08, p.47)
1962 In Ontario, Canada, the town
of Niagara-on-the-Lake began its Shaw festival, producing plays written
during George Bernard Shaw’s lifetime, i.e. 1856-1950.
(WSJ, 8/29/97, p.A9)
1962 China gained control from
India of the northeast region of Kashmir known as Aksai Chin.
(SSFC, 12/30/01, p.A22)
1962 Chinese immigrants began to
arrive in Northern Ireland. By 1996 they began experiencing racial
prejudice and violence against their businesses, mostly in the form of
robberies.
(SFC, 6/30/96, A11)
1962 Cuban bassist Israel Lopez
(1918-2008), known as “Cachao,” left Cuba for Spain and soon relocated
to NYC, where he performed with leading Latin bands.
(SSFC, 3/23/08, p.A2)
1962 Estonia convicted US resident
Karl Linnas in absentia of being a Nazi war criminal and sentenced him
to death.
(http://tinyurl.com/qa66b)
1962 In France a museum was added
to the Chateau Mouton Rothschild. It housed a priceless collection of
artwork related to wine.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.T4)
1962 In France Paul Louis Halley
(1934-2003) opened his first supermarket under the Promodes name.
Following major acquisitions in 1988, 1996 and 1997 Promodes merged
with rival Carrefour (1999) and took its name.
{France, Retail}
(WSJ, 4/15/08, p.B2)
1962 Aribert Heim (48) was charged
by German authorities with killing hundreds of concentration inmates in
Germany and Austria with lethal injections. He is thought to have
evaded capture in Germany, Argentina, Denmark, Brazil and Spain. During
WW II Heim earned the nickname of "Dr. Death" for experimenting on
inmates at the Buchenwald and Mauthausen camps. In 1979 Heim was
indicted in Germany in absentia on hundreds of counts of murder. In
2005 he was tracked to Spain. In 2009 new information indicated that he
had died in Egypt in 1992.
(AP, 10/15/05)(AP, 2/5/09)
1962 In Greece the Derveni
Papyrus, originally several yards of papyrus rolled around two wooden
runners, was found half burnt. It dates to around 340 BC, during the
reign of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. The
Derveni grave, about five miles northwest of Thessaloniki, was part of
a rich cemetery belonging to the ancient city of Lete.
(AP, 6/1/06)
1962 India and China fought a
brief border war in the Himalayas.
(WSJ, 5/16/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 11/29/96, p.B8)
1962 The northeast Indian state of
Arunachal Pradesh, twice the size of Switzerland, was closed to foreign
tourists, due to the border war with China. It re-opened in 1993.
(SSFC, 1/4/04, p.C10)
1962 In Italy valuables stripped
from Jews during the war were moved to a vault in central Rome.
(SFC, 2/3/97, p.C3)
1962 Ryoichi Sasakawa (d.1995),
billionaire boat racing tycoon, founded a foundation to support
Japanese nationalistic projects. It came to be called the Nippon
Foundation.
(WSJ, 2/15/05, p.A11)
1962 Oceanographers sailed to view
the predicted eruption of Myojin, an undersea volcano south of Japan.
It blew beneath them and nobody survived.
(SFEC, 9/10/00, Z1 p.2)
1962 The Japanese film “Harakiri”
starred Tatsuya Nakadai and was directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
(WSJ, 7/2/08, p.B13)
1962 The film "Sanjuro" (Tsubaki
sanjuro) starred Toshiro Mifune. It was directed by Akira Kurosawa.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.C3)(SFC, 9/7/98, p.A21)
1962 In Russia Alexander Lebed
(12) recalled seeing troops shoot striking laborers while growing up in
Novocherkassk. Workers there protested against falling wages and rising
prices with placards that read: “Cut up Khrushchev for sausages.”
(SFC, 10/18/96, A15)(Econ, 4/15/06, p.85)
1962 Rwanda established
independence from Belgium. The Hutu majority leadership clung to giant
money-losing state enterprises, while the Tutsi minority established
itself in the private sector and made better livings. The United
Nations trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi in east-central Africa was
divided into the independent nations of Rwanda and Burundi. Prior to
WWI the kingdoms of Ruanda and Urundi were made part of German East
Africa, which was conquered by British and Belgian troops during WWI
and became a Belgian mandate in 1923.
(SFC, 1/27/98, p.A8)(HNQ, 11/4/99)
1962 In Tibet the Panchem Lama,
senior Buddhist cleric after the Dalai Lama, issued a 120-page report
that described conditions in Tibet under Chinese control: "The 70,000
Character Petition." He described starvation due to the Chinese "Great
leap Forward" program when authorities confiscated the nomad’s food
reserves. The Panchem Lama was arrested and sent to Beijing for
rehabilitation [for 14 years] until 1988.
(SFEC, 10/7/96, A12)(SFC, 2/12/98, p.A12)
1962 The Chinese exacted control
over western Tibet and many nomad refugees fled to Ladakh. Only 70 of
Tibet’s 2,500 Buddhist monasteries remained.
(SFEC,12/14/97, p.T4)(SFC, 2/12/98, p.A12)
1962 Venezuela’s Pres. Romulo
Bettancourt announced the cessation of oil exploration concessions to
private companies. His energy minister became OPEC’s founder.
(WSJ, 1/05/00, p.A11)
1962-1963 Merv Griffin hosted the daytime talk show
“The Merv Griffin Show.”
(WSJ, 8/15/07, p.D12)
1962-1963 Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian statesman, served
as prime minister. He served as president from 1963 to 1965.
(WUD, 1994 p.137)(http://www.rulers.org/indexb2.html)
1962-1965 The Second Vatican Council was held. It had
a reforming spirit, ecumenical openness and democratic impulses. Rev.
Francis X. Murphy (d.2002) covered the Vatican Council. In 1963 he
published "Letters from Vatican City: Vatican Council II." In 1968 he
published "Vatican Council II," a history of the council.
(SFC, 8/15/96, p.A3)(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A18)
1962-1967 Lawrence Halprin served as the master
designer for the Sea Ranch development on the Northern California
coast. His proposal for the FDR Monument in Washington was accepted in
1974. It was completed in 1998 with 1,600 homes on 4,000 acres. In 2004
Donlyn Lyndon and Jim Alinder authored “The Sea Ranch.”
(SFEM, 8/10/97, p.31)(SSFC, 5/23/04, p.M6)
1962-1970 Ivan Allen Jr. (d.2003 at 92) served as
mayor of Atlanta following the retirement of William Hartsfield. Allen
desegregated city government the day he took office.
(SFC, 7/3/03, p.A25)
1962-1971 US military tanker planes and helicopters
sprayed 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other defoliants in
Operation Ranch Hand to deny cover to communist forces. The defoliants
were contaminated with TCDD, the most dangerous form of dioxin. In 2004
Philip Jones Griffith, photojournalist, authored "Agent Orange:
Collateral Damage in Vietnam."
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A12)(Econ, 1/31/04, p.82)
1962-1972 In Vietnam giant US tanker planes sprayed
millions of gallons of Agent Orange on the once lush DMZ in order to
eradicate the enemy’s jungle cover. Some 12 million gallons of Agent
Orange were sprayed over parts of southern and central Vietnam from
1961-1971. The total included some 375 pounds of dioxin. In 1998 a
nationwide survey was planned to count the victims. American
involvement in the Vietnam War was analyzed by H.R. McMaster In his
1997 book: "Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam." Agent Orange
used dioxins as the active ingredient in the herbicide. Anti-war
activist Jane Fonda at one point laid nude in a rice field near
Sacramento and California Republican Assembly leader Charles J. Conrad
(d.1998) suggested spraying defoliants on her.
(WSJ,2/12/97, p.A1)(SFC, 10/13/97, p.A23)(SFC,
1/22/98, p.E4)(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A10)
1962-1973 In 2001 the Pentagon began to publicly
release details on the existence of Project SHAD and its umbrella
program, Project 112, which involved distribution of nonlethal bacteria
and occasionally real chemical or biological weapons. In 2008 the US
Defense Department said 6,440 service members took part in 50 tests
under Project 112 during this period, including open-air tests above a
half-dozen US states. Defense officials essentially closed the books on
Project 112 in 2003.
(AP, 6/12/08)
1962-1973 In Utah the Deseret Test Center conducted
46 chemical warfare exercises at Fort Douglas.
(SFC, 11/1/02, p.A3)
1962-1975 A 13 year effort in Mozambique finally
succeeded in eliminating the Portuguese colonists.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)
1962-1978 Zubin Mehta served as music director of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic.
(SFC, 1/6/98, p.D1)
1962-1988 Gen’l. Ne Win ruled over Burma. During his
rule he periodically reorganized the government with a purge where
powerful opponents were either jailed or banished.
(SFC,11/17/97, p.A16)
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