Notable Historical Events - 1962
1962 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful |
Jan 1 |
Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium |
Jan 1 |
Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa |
Jan 1 |
United States Navy SEALs established. |
Jan 2 |
Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS |
Jan 3 |
Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome |
Jan 3 |
Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro |
Jan 4 |
1st automated (unmanned) subway train in New York City |
Jan 5 |
Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints" |
Jan 7 |
AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27 |
Jan 7 |
Assassination attempt fails on Indonesian president Sukarno |
Jan 7 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock |
Jan 8 |
Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth) |
Jan 8 |
Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th |
Jan 9 |
Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ |
Jan 9 |
NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks |
Jan 9 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 10 |
4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru |
Jan 10 |
Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500 |
Jan 11 |
Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die |
Jan 13 |
"Do Re Mi" closes at St James Theater NYC after 400 performances |
Jan 13 |
Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 pts vs Chicago |
Jan 14 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-30 |
Jan 15 |
50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64) |
Jan 15 |
Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea |
Jan 16 |
Shooting begins on "Dr No" |
Jan 16 |
Suit accuses NYC Board of Education uses "racial quotas" |
Jan 17 |
A NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m |
Jan 17 |
Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF |
Jan 18 |
Southern University closed due to demonstrations |
Jan 18 |
US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas |
Jan 18 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 20 |
"Kean" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 performances |
Jan 21 |
JFK arrives in Uruguay |
Jan 21 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
Jan 21 |
Snow falls in San Francisco |
Jan 22 |
The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership. |
Jan 23 |
Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 23 |
British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR |
Jan 23 |
Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb |
Jan 24 |
28 refugees escape from East to West Germany |
Jan 24 |
Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles |
Jan 24 |
Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 24 |
Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Jan 26 |
Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's |
Jan 26 |
Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard |
Jan 26 |
David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia |
Jan 26 |
US launches Ranger 3, misses Moon by 22,000-mi (37,000-km) |
Jan 26 |
"Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools |
Jan 27 |
"Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 65 performances |
Jan 28 |
Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia & survives |
Jan 30 |
UN General Assembly censures Portugal over Angola |
Jan 30 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 30 |
2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit |
Jan 31 |
Gen Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
Jan 31 |
Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout" |
Feb 1 |
"New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances |
Feb 1 |
NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule |
Feb 2 |
1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games) |
Feb 2 |
8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years |
Feb 2 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 3 |
John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm |
Feb 3 |
President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs |
Feb 4 |
"Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances |
Feb 4 |
Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game |
Feb 4 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles |
Feb 4 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt |
Feb 5 |
French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence |
Feb 5 |
Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed |
Feb 5 |
Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16 degrees |
Feb 6 |
Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named |
Feb 7 |
Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 |
Feb 7 |
President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports. |
Feb 7 |
Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational |
Feb 7 |
The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports. |
Feb 8 |
KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 9 |
Jamaica signs agreement to become independent |
Feb 9 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 10 |
Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA |
Feb 10 |
USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel |
Feb 11 |
Beatles record "Please, Please Me" |
Feb 12 |
Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia |
Feb 14 |
1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV |
Feb 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 16 |
Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres |
Feb 16 |
US Open Tennis: Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win |
Feb 17 |
Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin" |
Feb 17 |
Storm in Hamburg kills 265 |
Feb 17 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis |
Feb 18 |
France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war |
Feb 18 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open |
Feb 19 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 20 |
John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7) |
Feb 21 |
Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Neth |
Feb 22 |
Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts |
Feb 23 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 24 |
"New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances |
Feb 24 |
"Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances |
Feb 24 |
General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea |
Feb 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 25 |
India Congress Party wins elections |
Feb 25 |
Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon |
Feb 25 |
robert kennedy visits Netherlands |
Feb 26 |
Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad . . .," premieres in NYC |
Feb 26 |
US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation |
Feb 26 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY |
Feb 27 |
South-Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed |
Feb 28 |
WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN |
Mar 1 |
American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay NY killing 95 |
Mar 1 |
K-Mart opens |
Mar 1 |
US/British nuclear test experiment in Nevada |
Mar 2 |
JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing |
Mar 2 |
Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game |
Mar 2 |
In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup. |
Mar 3 |
British Antarctic Territory forms |
Mar 4 |
AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation |
Mar 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 6 |
St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals |
Mar 6 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 6 |
US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression |
Mar 7 |
Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio |
Mar 7 |
Launch of OSO 1, 1st astronomy satellite (solar flare data) |
Mar 8 |
Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC) |
Mar 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 9 |
Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians |
Mar 9 |
US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight |
Mar 10 |
Due to its no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida |
Mar 12 |
Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia |
Mar 13 |
Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty |
Mar 14 |
Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France |
Mar 14 |
Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals |
Mar 15 |
Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances |
Mar 15 |
5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter |
Mar 15 |
Donald Jackson of Canada is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump |
Mar 15 |
KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Mar 15 |
Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season |
Mar 16 |
1st launching of Titan 2-rocket |
Mar 16 |
US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167 |
Mar 18 |
Algerian War ends after 7½ yrs (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees |
Mar 18 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR |
Mar 19 |
"All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances |
Mar 19 |
Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels appointed cardinal |
Mar 20 |
Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater |
Mar 21 |
A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds |
Mar 21 |
Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in Neth for birth control |
Mar 21 |
Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control |
Mar 21 |
Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36 |
Mar 22 |
"I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 perfs |
Mar 23 |
JFK visits SF |
Mar 23 |
Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket v WI age 21 years 77 days |
Mar 23 |
Wake Forest coach "Bones" McKinney becomes 2nd person to play & coach |
Mar 23 |
William DeWitt buys Cin Reds for $4,625,000 |
Mar 24 |
24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 71-59 |
Mar 24 |
Benny Paret knocked out in a welterweight title; he dies 10 days later |
Mar 24 |
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys |
Mar 25 |
"Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances |
Mar 25 |
French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested |
Mar 26 |
Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg |
Mar 27 |
Ann Jellicoe's "Knack" premieres in London |
Mar 27 |
Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school |
Mar 27 |
Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy |
Mar 28 |
Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India |
Mar 28 |
Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees |
Mar 29 |
Argentine Pres Frondizi flees from the army |
Mar 29 |
Jack Paar's final appearance on the "Tonight Show" |
Apr 2 |
The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London. |
Apr 3 |
Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races) |
Apr 3 |
Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA |
Apr 5 |
Herb Gardner's "Thousand Clowns" premieres in NYC |
Apr 5 |
Mgr J Daems appointed bishop of Antwerp |
Apr 5 |
NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m |
Apr 5 |
St Bernard Tunnel finished-Swiss/Italians workers shake hands |
Apr 7 |
Umrigar slams 172* v WI at Port-of-Spain in 248 minutes |
Apr 7 |
Yugoslav ex-president Milovan Djilas returns to jail |
Apr 8 |
Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France |
Apr 9 |
26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 9 |
34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Maximillian Schell win |
Apr 9 |
JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium |
Apr 10 |
1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds |
Apr 10 |
1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2 |
Apr 10 |
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR |
Apr 11 |
New York Mets make a losing debut |
Apr 12 |
San Mateo County withdraws from BART district (SF Bay area) |
Apr 13 |
Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record |
Apr 13 |
US steel industry forced to give up price increases |
Apr 14 |
Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam |
Apr 14 |
Georges Pompidou becomes Prime Minister of France after the resignation of Michel Debré |
Apr 15 |
US national debt above $300,000,000,000 |
Apr 16 |
Brazil nationalizes US businesses |
Apr 16 |
Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News |
Apr 18 |
16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 19 |
66th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:48 |
Apr 19 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m |
Apr 20 |
NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m |
Apr 20 |
New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North |
Apr 20 |
OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers |
Apr 21 |
Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington |
Apr 22 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Sunshine Golf Open |
Apr 22 |
NY Mets tiea NL record by losing 9 straight to start season |
Apr 22 |
Pirates tie then record of 10 straight wins to start season |
Apr 22 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 2 |
Apr 23 |
1st US satellite to reach the moon launched |
Apr 23 |
NY Mets win their 1st game ever, after going 0-9, beat Pirates 9-1 |
Apr 23 |
Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral |
Apr 24 |
1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested |
Apr 24 |
MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA |
Apr 24 |
Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game |
Apr 25 |
Cleve sends Harry Chiti to Mets for a player to be named later, on |
Apr 25 |
Lion & Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated |
Apr 25 |
US Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon |
Apr 25 |
US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island |
Apr 25 |
June 15 the Mets send Chiti back to Cleveland |
Apr 26 |
1st Lockheed A-12 flies |
Apr 26 |
Ariel 1 Launch (1st UK Satellite) |
Apr 26 |
Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon |
Apr 26 |
Red Sox Bill Monbouquette no-hits White Sox 1-0 |
Apr 26 |
US/UK launch Ariel; 1st international payload |
Apr 27 |
Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything" premieres in London |
Apr 27 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
Apr 29 |
16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons & How to Succeed win |
Apr 29 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Apr 30 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m |
Apr 30 |
Willie Mays hits 4 HRs |
May 1 |
1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara |
May 1 |
Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start |
May 1 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
May 1 |
JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA) |
May 2 |
Benfica wins 7th Europe Cup I |
May 2 |
OAS strikes in Algeria |
May 2 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
May 2 |
WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, NY (PBS) 1st broadcast |
May 3 |
Express train crashed into wreckage of a commuter train & a freight, killing 163, injuring 400 (Tokyo, Japan) |
May 4 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
May 5 |
88th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Decidedly wins in 2:00.4 |
May 5 |
LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0 |
May 5 |
West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album |
May 6 |
1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen) |
May 6 |
Antonio Segni elected president of Italy |
May 6 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament |
May 6 |
Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos |
May 6 |
US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
May 7 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) |
May 7 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
May 8 |
"Funny Thing Happened" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 965 perfs |
May 8 |
1st Atlas Centaur Launch |
May 8 |
London trolley buses go out of service |
May 9 |
Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Parlophone |
May 9 |
Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time |
May 9 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
May 11 |
Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy |
May 11 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
May 11 |
US sends troops to Thailand |
May 12 |
Grevelingen dam closes |
May 12 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
May 13 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
May 14 |
Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years |
May 14 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
May 15 |
US marines arrive in Laos |
May 17 |
Marin County withdraws from BART district |
May 19 |
"Bravo, Giovanni" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances |
May 19 |
"John Birch Society" by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99 |
May 19 |
88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2 |
May 19 |
Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea |
May 19 |
Stan Musial breaks Honus Wagner's NL hit record with 3,431 |
May 19 |
US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
May 20 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
May 21 |
3 more Cleveland HR set AL record for most HR (26) over 8 games |
May 22 |
14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth win |
May 22 |
Netherlands telephone network becomes completely automated |
May 22 |
Major Robert A Rushworth, USAF, takes X-15 to 30,600m |
May 22 |
Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game |
May 22 |
Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board. |
May 23 |
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May 23 |
OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life |
May 23 |
Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7 |
May 24 |
M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit |
May 25 |
Isley Brothers release "Twist & Shout" |
May 25 |
US performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
May 25 |
US unions AFL-CIO starts campaign for 35-hour work week |
May 26 |
"All American" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 80 perfs |
May 27 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
May 28 |
Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY |
May 28 |
US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day |
May 28 |
Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio |
May 29 |
Barbra Streisand appears on "Garry Moore Show" |
May 29 |
4th Grammy Awards: Moon River, Peter Nero wins |
May 30 |
69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India) |
May 30 |
Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" premieres |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Rodger Ward wins in 3:33:50.291 (225.780 km/h) |
May 31 |
"Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV |
May 31 |
The West Indies Federation dissolves. |
Jun 1 |
Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit |
Jun 1 |
Roda JC soccer team reforms in Kerkrade |
Jun 1 |
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m |
Jun 2 |
32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62) |
Jun 3 |
Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130 |
Jun 3 |
Betsy Rawls & Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
Jun 3 |
Lee Harvey Oswald arrives by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands |
Jun 3 |
WBKO TV channel 13 in Bowling Green, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 4 |
Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US |
Jun 6 |
Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums |
Jun 7 |
NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m |
Jun 8 |
Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8) |
Jun 9 |
"Bill of Hare" premieres in USA |
Jun 9 |
94th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Jaipur wins in 2:28.8 |
Jun 9 |
Tony Bennett debuts in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC |
Jun 10 |
A record 54 home runs hit in baseball |
Jun 10 |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½" |
Jun 10 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament |
Jun 11 |
US President John Kennedy accepts an honorary degree from Yale |
Jun 11 |
Brothers John and Clarence Anglin and fellow inmate Frank Morris escape from Alcatraz Island prison, the only ones to do so |
Jun 12 |
Laos prince Souvanna Phouma forms coalition government |
Jun 12 |
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m |
Jun 13 |
"Bob Newhart Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 13 |
Norway named ombudsman |
Jun 14 |
Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim. |
Jun 14 |
The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency. |
Jun 15 |
Phillies score 10 runs in an inning against Reds en route to 13-8 win |
Jun 15 |
South Africa passes a bill setting death penalty for many crimes |
Jun 15 |
WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 15 |
Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement. |
Jun 16 |
2 US army officers killed in Saigon |
Jun 17 |
62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA |
Jun 17 |
Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago |
Jun 17 |
Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers |
Jun 17 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
Jun 21 |
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m |
Jun 22 |
1st test flight of Hoovercraft |
Jun 22 |
French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed |
Jun 23 |
"Subways Are after Sleeping" closes at St James NYC after 205 perfs |
Jun 23 |
Suvanna Phuma forms government in Laos |
Jun 23 |
Larry Doby retires from Cleve Indians to play in Japan |
Jun 24 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament |
Jun 24 |
Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history |
Jun 25 |
Inonu government forms in Turkey |
Jun 25 |
Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms |
Jun 25 |
Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional |
Jun 26 |
Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill |
Jun 26 |
Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0 |
Jun 26 |
WSEC (now WLRN) TV channel 17 in Miami, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 27 |
NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m |
Jun 27 |
Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems |
Jun 27 |
In South Africa, the General Law Amendment Act (Sabotage Act) No 76 commences, increasing the state president's power to declare organisations unlawful and to add further restrictions to banning orders |
Jun 28 |
Thalidomide drug banned in Netherlands |
Jun 29 |
1st flight Vickers (British Aerospace) VC-10 long-range airliner |
Jun 29 |
Frank Howard hits the 5,000th Dodger home run |
Jun 30 |
17th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom |
Jun 30 |
French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria |
Jun 30 |
LA Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits NY Mets, 5-0 |
Jun 30 |
Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters |
Jun 30 |
Rwanda & Burundi become independent |
Jul 1 |
Algeria votes for independence from France |
Jul 1 |
Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days) |
Jul 2 |
Cubans minister of Foreign affairs RaulCastro arrives in Moscow |
Jul 2 |
Fidel Castro visits Moscow |
Jul 3 |
Algerian Revolution against French rule ends (Algeria gains independence on 5th July) |
Jul 4 |
Island Records begins |
Jul 4 |
KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast |
Jul 5 |
96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria |
Jul 5 |
Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule |
Jul 5 |
Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers |
Jul 6 |
76th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61) |
Jul 6 |
Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria |
Jul 6 |
Mantle hits his 3rd & 4th consecutive homer |
Jul 6 |
Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare. |
Jul 7 |
69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (6-4 6-4) |
Jul 7 |
Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races |
Jul 7 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 8 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open |
Jul 9 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Jul 9 |
Andy Warhol's first West Coast gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles |
Jul 10 |
32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington |
Jul 10 |
All star MVP: Maury Wills (LA Dodgers) |
Jul 10 |
Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia |
Jul 10 |
Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched |
Jul 10 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
Jul 11 |
1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I) |
Jul 11 |
Brothers Hank & Tommie Aaron homer in same inning |
Jul 11 |
Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days |
Jul 11 |
Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba) |
Jul 11 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
Jul 11 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 12 |
1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR) |
Jul 12 |
Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London) |
Jul 13 |
500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea |
Jul 13 |
91st British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 276 at Royal Troon |
Jul 13 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 14 |
Borehole for Mont Blanc tunnel finished |
Jul 14 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 15 |
Algeria becomes member of Arab League |
Jul 15 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
Jul 15 |
Netherlands & Indonesia reach agreement over New Guinea |
Jul 16 |
NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
Jul 17 |
East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall |
Jul 17 |
Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft) |
Jul 17 |
Senate rejects medicare for aged |
Jul 17 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 18 |
Minnesota Twins Bob Allison & Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning |
Jul 18 |
Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison |
Jul 19 |
Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero |
Jul 20 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony |
Jul 20 |
France & Tunisia recover diplomatic relations |
Jul 21 |
160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany Ga |
Jul 21 |
Battles on Chinese & Indies boundary |
Jul 22 |
1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off |
Jul 22 |
44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA |
Jul 22 |
Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles) |
Jul 22 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament |
Jul 23 |
The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed. |
Jul 26 |
Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba |
Jul 26 |
Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher |
Jul 27 |
Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission |
Jul 27 |
Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Albany Georgia |
Jul 27 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Jul 28 |
19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa |
Jul 28 |
Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean |
Jul 30 |
33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
Jul 30 |
All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels) |
Jul 31 |
Federation of Malaysia forms |
Jul 31 |
Statham is Test cricket's leading wkt-taker (229), beating Lindwall |
Aug 1 |
Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 |
Aug 1 |
Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
Aug 2 |
NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m |
Aug 3 |
29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000) |
Aug 3 |
NY Met Frank Thomas hits his 6th HR in 3 games |
Aug 4 |
Nelson Mandela captured by South African police |
Aug 5 |
1st quasar located by radio |
Aug 5 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
Aug 5 |
Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Africa |
Aug 5 |
UN command forbids flights to Katangese airports |
Aug 6 |
Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule |
Aug 7 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 10 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 11 |
Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 |
Aug 11 |
Beach Boys release "Surfin' Safari" |
Aug 11 |
Bolotnikov runs world record 10km (28:18.2) |
Aug 11 |
Dodgers protest wetting down of Candlestick to slow Maury Wills down |
Aug 12 |
1st time 2 people in space |
Aug 12 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament |
Aug 12 |
Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15 |
Aug 13 |
Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously |
Aug 14 |
French & Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel |
Aug 14 |
NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m |
Aug 14 |
US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million |
Aug 15 |
Netherlands & Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea |
Aug 15 |
Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia |
Aug 16 |
Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles' drummer |
Aug 17 |
E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector |
Aug 18 |
Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer" |
Aug 19 |
Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55 |
Aug 19 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
Aug 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 21 |
Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ |
Aug 22 |
Failed assassination on French president Charles de Gaulle |
Aug 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 22 |
Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga |
Aug 23 |
1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar) |
Aug 24 |
Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds |
Aug 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 26 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open |
Aug 26 |
Minnesota Twins Jack Kralick no-hits KC A's, 1-0 |
Aug 27 |
Mariner 2 launched; first probe to fly by Venus |
Aug 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Aug 28 |
55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record) |
Aug 28 |
Dr Geza De Kaplany tortures his wife with acid to punish her for supposed infidelity |
Aug 28 |
Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)" |
Aug 29 |
Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended |
Aug 29 |
US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba |
Aug 30 |
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war. |
Aug 31 |
Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day) |
Sep 1 |
12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran |
Sep 1 |
KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 1 |
UN announces Earth's population has hit 3 billion |
Sep 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 1 |
Channel Television launches to 54,000 households in the Channel Islands. |
Sep 2 |
Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place |
Sep 2 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 3 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open |
Sep 4 |
Beatles record "How Do You Do It" at EMI |
Sep 4 |
French president De Gaulle visits German FR |
Sep 5 |
Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II |
Sep 5 |
Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 & consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th |
Sep 6 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 8 |
Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) |
Sep 8 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 8 |
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' |
Sep 9 |
76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64) |
Sep 9 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
Sep 9 |
Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses |
Sep 9 |
WNYS (now WIXT) TV channel 9 in Syracuse, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 10 |
82nd US Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Roy Emerson (62 64 57 64) |
Sep 10 |
KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 10 |
WDCN TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
Beatles cut "Love Me Do" & "PS I Love You" with Andy White on drums |
Sep 11 |
Drummer Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best of the Beatles |
Sep 11 |
KVCR TV channel 24 in San Bernardino, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 12 |
Wash Senator Tom Cheney strikes out record 21 Orioles in 16 inn game |
Sep 14 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 15 |
"Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 perfs |
Sep 15 |
Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins) |
Sep 15 |
KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk |
Sep 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 15 |
WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 16 |
Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8) |
Sep 16 |
Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8 |
Sep 16 |
Public TV channel 13 begins in NYC |
Sep 16 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open |
Sep 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 17 |
Justice Dept files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools |
Sep 17 |
US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts |
Sep 18 |
Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games |
Sep 18 |
Charlie Finley is denied permission to move As to Dallas-Fort Worth |
Sep 18 |
Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN |
Sep 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 20 |
Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria |
Sep 20 |
Gov R Barnett refuses to admit a black to Miss Univ (James Meredith) |
Sep 22 |
Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall |
Sep 23 |
ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons |
Sep 23 |
LA Dodger Maury Wills steals record setting #97 on his way to 104 |
Sep 23 |
Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora" premieres in Berlin |
Sep 23 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open |
Sep 23 |
NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts |
Sep 24 |
KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 24 |
US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss |
Sep 25 |
Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia |
Sep 25 |
Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title |
Sep 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 25 |
Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America's Cup |
Sep 25 |
Yankees clinch AL pennant |
Sep 26 |
LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104) |
Sep 26 |
TV comedy series "Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS |
Sep 26 |
Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day) |
Sep 27 |
Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen |
Sep 27 |
US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles |
Sep 27 |
Rachel Carson publishes 'Silent Spring' about the deleterious impacts pesticide use in the US on the environment |
Sep 28 |
"Brighter Day" last airs on CBS-TV daytime |
Sep 28 |
"I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" debuts on ABC-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Jan Murray Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Tonight Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Sep 28 |
"Verdict Is Yours," last airs on CBS-TV |
Sep 28 |
Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched |
Sep 28 |
Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia. |
Sep 29 |
"Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric & His Piano peaks at #7 |
Sep 29 |
"Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3 |
Sep 29 |
"My Fair Lady" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 2,715 perfs |
Sep 29 |
"Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show" debuts on ABC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"You Can't Judge A Book By Cover" by Bo Diddley peaks at #48 |
Sep 29 |
Algerian government of Ben Bella forms |
Sep 29 |
Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader |
Sep 29 |
JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi |
Sep 29 |
Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket) |
Sep 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 30 |
A's Bill Fischer ends 84 1/3 consec innings pitched without a walk |
Sep 30 |
JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi |
Sep 30 |
James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi |
Sep 30 |
KCRL TV channel 4 in Reno, NV (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Sep 30 |
KMEX TV channel 34 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Sep 30 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open |
Sep 30 |
NY Mets lose record 120th game as Cubs turn triple play & beat NY 5-1 |
Sep 30 |
Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers. |
Oct 1 |
Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia) |
Oct 1 |
Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977 |
Oct 1 |
James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi |
Oct 1 |
Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests |
Oct 1 |
The Lucy Show premieres |
Oct 1 |
SF beats Dodgers, 8-0 in 1st of best-of-3 NL playoff |
Oct 1 |
UN gives Netherlands control of New Guinea |
Oct 1 |
US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope |
Oct 1 |
WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 2 |
SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game |
Oct 2 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Oct 3 |
"Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert NYC for 886 perfs |
Oct 3 |
Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184 |
Oct 3 |
Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit |
Oct 4 |
USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m |
Oct 4 |
Whitey Ford's World Series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends |
Oct 5 |
Beatles release their 1st record "Love Me Do" |
Oct 6 |
16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto |
Oct 6 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Oct 7 |
8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball |
Oct 7 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 8 |
Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN |
Oct 8 |
North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party |
Oct 8 |
Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver 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 was soon accused of treason. |
Oct 9 |
Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130 |
Oct 9 |
NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m |
Oct 9 |
Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom |
Oct 10 |
Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack |
Oct 11 |
1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show |
Oct 11 |
2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII |
Oct 12 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 12 |
US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology |
Oct 12 |
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 |
Oct 13 |
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen |
Oct 14 |
Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17 |
Oct 14 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament |
Oct 14 |
US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba |
Oct 14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 15 |
Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court |
Oct 15 |
WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 16 |
Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
Oct 16 |
Cuban missile crisis begins as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba |
Oct 16 |
KTXT TV channel 5 in Lubbock, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 16 |
Yanks (20th championship) beat SF Giants 4 games to 3 in World Series |
Oct 16 |
NY Yankees appear in 12 & win 9 of last 14 World Series |
Oct 17 |
Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship |
Oct 18 |
JFK meets Soviet minister of foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko |
Oct 18 |
Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Let's Dance" |
Oct 18 |
US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon |
Oct 18 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Oct 18 |
Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA |
Oct 19 |
Stalin monument removed in Prague |
Oct 19 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 20 |
Musical "Mr President" opens at St James Theater New York for 265 performances |
Oct 20 |
Chinese army lands in India |
Oct 20 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Oct 21 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open |
Oct 22 |
JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba |
Oct 22 |
JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis |
Oct 22 |
JFK receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote |
Oct 22 |
Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center |
Oct 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 23 |
Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis |
Oct 23 |
USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m |
Oct 23 |
WCIV TV channel 4 in Charleston, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 24 |
Cuban missile crisis: US blockade of Cuba begins |
Oct 25 |
110th member of UN admitted (Uganda) |
Oct 25 |
1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation |
Oct 25 |
American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature |
Oct 25 |
US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over" |
Oct 26 |
The Beatles record "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why" |
Oct 26 |
JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba |
Oct 26 |
Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey: offer is rejected |
Oct 26 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Oct 27 |
"Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs |
Oct 27 |
Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba |
Oct 27 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Oct 27 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 27 |
The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances. |
Oct 28 |
NY Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Wash Redskins (49-34) |
Oct 28 |
Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated |
Oct 28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 28 |
Cuban missile crisis: US President Kennedy receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement |
Oct 30 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Nov 1 |
Greece enters European Common Market |
Nov 1 |
KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 1 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Nov 1 |
USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars |
Nov 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Nov 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Nov 1 |
WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Nov 1 |
WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 3 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Nov 3 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers |
Nov 4 |
Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament |
Nov 4 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
Nov 6 |
BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote |
Nov 6 |
Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass) |
Nov 6 |
Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts |
Nov 6 |
Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery |
Nov 6 |
UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa |
Nov 7 |
Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California |
Nov 7 |
Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie |
Nov 8 |
Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape |
Nov 9 |
Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World |
Nov 9 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 10 |
"Nowhere to Go, But Up" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 9 perfs |
Nov 11 |
Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. |
Nov 15 |
Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award |
Nov 16 |
Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic) |