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1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 3, Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 4, The 1st automated (unmanned) subway train ran in NYC.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 10, Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroyed 7 villages and killed 3,500.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 12, The United States resumed aid to the Laotian regime.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 16, R.H. Tawney (b.1880), English economic historian, died. His books include \u201cEquality” (1931). It was here that he wrote \u201cFreedom for the pike is death to the minnows.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 18, The U.S. sprayed foliage with pesticide in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 21, Snow fell in the SF Bay Area and accumulated to about 3 inches in Daly City and San Francisco. This was the heaviest local snowfall since 1887.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 23, British spy Kim Philby defected to USSR.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 23, Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) became the first African-American elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 26, Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declared Chubby Checker’s “Twist” is impure & banned it from all Catholic schools.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 28, Elliot Joslin (b.1869), American pioneering diabetes researcher, died. He had argued that controlling the level of glucose in a person\u2019s bloodstream was the key to managing type 2 diabetes.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan 30, Two members of the “Flying Wallendas” high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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\u2019s membership.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan, The US Navy SEAL (Sea Air Land) force was formed with personnel from underwater demolition teams.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 3, President John F. Kennedy banned all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 4, Russian newspaper Izvestia reported baseball is an old Russian game.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 5, French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algeria’s independence.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 7, Sam Snead won the LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 8, The U.S. Defense Department reported the creation of the Military Assistance Command in South Vietnam.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 9, An agreement was signed to make Jamaica an independent nation within the British Commonwealth later in the year.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 12, Pres. Kennedy commuted the death sentence of Jimmie Henderson, a Navy seaman, to confinement for life.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 14, First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducted a televised tour of the White House.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 16, Todd Gitlin (b.1943), Harvard activist, helped organize a national anti-war rally in Washington, DC. Some 8,000 students turned up. Boston SANE & the fledgling SDS organized the first anti-nuclear march.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 17, Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit “Surfin.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 18, Robert F. Kennedy said that U.S. troops would stay in Vietnam until Communism was defeated.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 22, A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks was turned down by the U.S.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 24, New York police seized $20 million worth of heroin.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Feb 26, Arthur Kopit’s “Oh, Dad, Poor Dad…” premiered in NYC.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 1, A US Army memorandum was put out titled “Possible Actions to Provoke, Harass or Disrupt Cuba.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 2, Jon Bon Jovi (John Bongiovi) was born. (singer, musician, songwriter: You Give Love a Bad Name, Living on a Prayer)
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 3, British Antarctic Territory was formed.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 4, AEC announced 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 5, The US Supreme Court in Griggs v. Allegheny County ruled that airports must compensate people living in the near vicinity for noise and vibrations.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 6, US promised Thailand assistance against “communist” aggression.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 9, US “advisors” in South-Vietnam joined the fight.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 13, John F. Kennedy met Cameroon President Ahmadou Ahidjo.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 15, Richard Rodger’s musical “No Strings,” premiered in NYC for 580 performances.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 17, Moscow asked the U.S. to pull out of South Vietnam.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 18, France and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce, which took effect the next day.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 19, Relative calm returned to Algeria after cease-fire, ending 7 years of warfare between French and Algerian Nationalists.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 20, C. Wright Mills (45), US sociologist (Power Elite), died.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 23, Pres. John F. Kennedy visited San Francisco and spoke at UC Berkeley on the 100th anniversary of the Morrill Act. \u201cFor 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 25, French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud was arrested.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 28, The U.S. Air Force announced research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 30, M.C. Hammer, [Stanley Kirk Burrell], rapper (Hammer Time), was born in Oakland, Ca.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar 31, Cesar Chavez (d.1993) founded the United Farm Workers Union on his birthday.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mar, The Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Union Local 130 began dumping containers of green dye into the Chicago River to celebrate St. Patrick\u2019s Day.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 3, Manolis Kalomiris (78), Greek opera composer, died.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 5, Herb Gardner’s “Thousand Clowns,” premiered in NYC.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 8, The Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 9, In the 34th Academy Awards “West Side Story,” Sophia Loren and Maximilian Schell won.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 13, US steel industry was forced to give up price increases.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 16, Walter Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of “The CBS Evening News.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 20, New Orleans Citizens Committee gave a free one-way ride to blacks to move North.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 24, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, between Camp Parks, Ca., and Westford, Mass.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 25,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 29, In the 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed won.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apr 30, Milton Obote took over as prime minister of Uganda.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 2, OAS struck in Algeria.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 3, William A, Eddy (b.1896), former US minister to Saudi Arabia (1944-1946), died. In 2008 Thomas W. Lippman authored \u201cArabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy, USMC, and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 7, A Pulitzer prize was awarded to Theodore H. White (Making of President).
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 9, A laser beam was successfully bounced off Moon for the first time.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 11, US sent troops to Thailand.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 12, Dick Calkins, co-author of Buck Rogers, died at 67.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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\u00a0 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\u2019s hot brush stroke was parodied in Roy Lichtenstein\u2019s pixilated “Brushstroke” series, where RL provided a cool version of Kline\u2019s hot stroke.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 14, Princess Sophia of Greece wed Don Juan Carlos of Spain.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 15, US marines “arrived” in Laos.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 24, Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 25, Isley Brothers released “Twist & Shout.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 30, Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem,” premiered.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May, The stock market decline coincided with Pres. Kennedy\u2019s attack on the steel industry and Attorney General Kennedy\u2019s 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 1, “The Dinah Shore Show” (TV Variety) aired for the last time on NBC after 10 years.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 \u201cSissinghurst: An Unfinished History.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 3, Lee Harvey Oswald arrived by train in Oldenzaal, Netherlands.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 4, Lee Harvey Oswald departed Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 6, Yves Klein (b.1928), French artist, died of a heart attack.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 7, Joseph A. Walker, NASA civilian test pilot, took the X-15 to 31,580 meters.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 22, The Hovercraft was 1st tested.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 23, The Syrian government conducted a special population census only for the province of Jazira which was predominantly Kurdish. As a result, around 120,000 Kurds in Jazira were arbitrarily categorized as aliens.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 25, The Supreme Court ruled that the use of an unofficial, nondenominational prayer in New York public schools was unconstitutional.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 27, NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker took the X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun 28, Thalidomide was banned in Netherlands.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jun, In 2012 Mimi Alford (69), a grandmother and retired church administrator said she began a relationship with Pres. John F. Kennedy while she was a 19-year-old intern in the White House press office. According to a New York Post, which obtained a copy of the memoir, the affair began in the summer of 1962, on the fourth day of Alford’s internship, when they had an encounter in the White House swimming pool. That night, Alford says, she lost her virginity to the president in First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s bedroom. The affair was first revealed in 2003, when Kennedy biographer Robert Dallek wrote in “An Unfinished Life” about an unnamed intern who allegedly had a relationship with the late president. Alford\u2019s “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath” was released on Feb 8, 2012.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 3, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 5, Algeria\u2019s 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.\u00a0 A massacre in Oran, Algeria, left 96 dead.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 9, Andy Warhol opened his first solo show at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. It consisted of 32 paintings of Campbell\u2019s Soup Cans. He also created his “Red Liz” work this year.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 10, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a demonstration in Georgia.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 12, Mick Jagger (18), Keith Richards (18) and Brian Jones (20) played The Marquee Club with three others, the first time they performed under the Rolling Stones band name which later became synonymous worldwide with excess and musical flair.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 14, Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel, between France and Italy, was finished. [see Aug 14]\n(MC, 7\/14\/02)<\/p>\n
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 17, Air Force pilot Robert White (1924-2010) flew the rocket-powered X-15 to an altitude of 314,750 feet (59.6 miles).
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 20, Dmitri Shostakovitch completed his 13th Symphony.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 23, In San Francisco a 10-ton granite and bronze monument to Robert Louis Stevenson was returned to Portsmouth Square as the 800-car underground parking garage was completed.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 27, Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Albany, Georgia.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul 28, 19 died in a train crash in Steelton, Pa.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jul, Pres. Kennedy installed a taping system in the White House.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Aug 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 6, Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 9, Hermann Hesse (85), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1946), died in Switzerland.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 11, The Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev on a 94-hour flight.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 14, Robbers held up a U.S. mail truck in Plymouth, Mass., making off with more than $1.5 million.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 15, Shady Grove Baptist Church was burned in Leesburg, Georgia.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 17, Beatles replaced Pete Best with Ringo Starr.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 18, Peter, Paul and Mary released their 1st hit “If I Had a Hammer.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 21, Matthew Broderick, actor (Ferris Buehler, Biloxi Blues), was born.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 22, Savannah, world’s 1st nuclear powered ship, completed here maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 23, A Colombian DC-3 plane crashed in the Choco jungle killing two Americans, the first Peace Corps volunteers to die in service, as well as 36 Colombians.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 25,\u00a0 USSR performed a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aug 29, Rebecca DeMornay, actress: Risky Business, The Three Musketeers, Guilty as Sin, Backdraft, was born.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sep 1, UN announced Earth\u2019s that human population has hit 3 billion.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sep 3, Edward E. Cummings, aka E.E. Cummings (b.1894), US poet, died in New Hampshire. In 1958 Charles Norman authored \u201cE.E. Cummings: The Magic Maker.” In 1980 Richard S. Kennedy authored a biography of Cummings \u201cDreams in the Mirror.” In 2014 Susan Cheever authored \u201cE.E. Cumming: A Life.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sep 17, The first federal suit to end public school segregation was filed by the U.S. Justice Department.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sep 25, Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson in round one to win the world heavyweight title at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sep 26, The cult film “Carnival of Souls” premiered in Lawrence, Kan., where parts of it had been filmed.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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,\u00a0 Mel Brooks and The Phoenix Singers.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 3, “Stop the World” opened at Shubert NYC for 886\u00a0 performances.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 5, The Beatles’ first hit, “Love Me Do,” was first released in the United Kingdom.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 8, Former Pres. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon visited San Francisco as the SF Giants beat the NY Yankees in a World Series baseball game.
1962 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 9, Uganda became an independent state within the Britain Commonwealth. [see Mar 1]\n(PCh, 1992, p.984)(SFC, 5\/4\/96, P.A-10)(AP, 10\/9\/04)<\/p>\n
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 11, The US Trade Expansion Act was enacted under Pres. Kennedy. It included 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 12, Columbus Day storms washed out the 1962 World Series game at Candlestick Park in SF. A storm from the Gulf of Alaska took on moisture from Typhoon Freda and caused 4 days of rainouts during the World series.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 13, Jerry Rice, football player, was born. He played as a San Francisco ’49er wide receiver: Super Bowl XXIII, XXIV, XXIX.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 15, Byron R. White (1917-2002) was appointed to the US Supreme Court by Pres. Kennedy.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 16, The Cuban missile crisis began as President Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 17, The SF Giants lost to the NY Yankees 1-0 in the 7th game of the
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 20, The musical, “Mr. President,” written by Irving Berlin, opened on Broadway.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 23, US ambassador Adlai Stevenson spoke at UN about Cuba crisis.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 24, The U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a proclamation signed by President Kennedy.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 25, American author John Steinbeck (62) was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 26, JFK warned Russia that the US would not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 27, “Beyond the Fringe” opened at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances. It starred\u00a0 Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct 31, Bobby Pickett (1938-2007) made a one-time hit with \u201cMonster Mash,” as it reached No. 1 on Halloween.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oct, Linus Pauling won the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1954 he won a Nobel in Chemistry.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 1, Greece entered the European Common Market.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 2, Pres. Kennedy reported that Soviet missile bases in Cuba were being dismantled.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 4, The Russian Mars 1962B Lander failed to leave Earth orbit.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 6, Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009) of Massachusetts was 1st elected as US Senator (D) to fill the vacancy caused by the 1960 resignation of his brother, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, for the term ending January 3, 1965. Pres. Kennedy had persuaded the governor of Massachusetts to appoint his college roommate, Benjamin A. Smith II, until Edward turned 30.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 10, Eleanor Roosevelt was buried.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 14, Laura San Giacoma, actress (Pretty Woman, Vital Signs), was born in Danville, NJ.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 15, Cuba threatened to down U.S. planes on reconnaissance flights over its territory.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 18, Niels Bohr (77), Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), died.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 19, S.N. Behrman’s “Lord Pengo,” premiered in NYC.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 20, President Kennedy barred religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 21, China agreed to a cease-fire on India-China border.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 23, In New Jersey gas station owner Walter Patterson, a decorated World War II veteran, was shot during a robbery at his business in Wall. George Wright (19) was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 15-30 years in prison. He escaped in 1970.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 24, The BBC TV series “That Was the Week That Was” began and ran through 36 episodes to 1963. Willie Rushton impersonated PM Harold McMillan.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 26, The Beatles made their 1st recording session under the “Beatles” name.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov 29, Great Britain and France agreed on a joint venture to build the super sonic Concorde jet.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nov, The Chieftains were founded by Paddy Moloney in northern Dublin as a traditional Irish band.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 5, Pres. Kennedy discussed stockpiling nuclear weapons to deter Soviet attacks with senior staff including Def. Sec. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell Taylor.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 7, Great Britain performed a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 8, A 114-day newspaper strike began in NYC.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 9, “I Can Get It For You Wholesale” closed on Broadway.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 11, In San Francisco the L\u2019Italia building at Stockton and Green fell under the wrecker\u2019s ball. The 45-year-old building had housed the largest Italian-language newspaper this side of New York. The newspaper, founded in 1886 had merged with the La Voce Popolo in 1939. It now moved to new quarters at 70 Otis Street.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 14, The U.S. space probe Mariner 2 approached Venus, transmitting information about the planet.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 17, Thomas Mitchell (70), US, actor (Outlaw), died of cancer.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 19, Transit 5A1, the 1st operational navigational satellite, was launched.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 21, A US and Cuba accord released Bay of Pigs captives.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 23, Cuba started returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 25, The Bay of Pigs captives who were ransomed, vowed to return and topple Castro.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec 26, Eight East Berliners escaped to West Berlin, crashing through gates in an armor plated bus.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dec, Pres. Kennedy proposed a tax cut.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997), sculptor and painter, created the gates for Peggy Guggenheim\u2019s palazzo in Venice.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roy Lichtenstein made his pop art painting “BLANG!”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robert Rauschenberg created his piece “Barge.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ben Shahn painted his “Heron of Calvary No. 1.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David Smith made his sculpture “Voltri VI.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Herbert E. Alexander (1927-2008), political scientist at USC, authored \u201cFinancing the 1960 Election.” His work pioneered the field of campaign finance studies.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan and Stan Berenstain (1923-2005) published their 1st Berenstain Bears book: \u201cThe Big Honey Hunt.” They developed the stories with Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) and went on to publish over 200 books in the series.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Helen Gurley Brown (1922-2012) authored “Sex and the Single Girl.” In 2009 Jennifer Scanlon authored \u201cBad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eugene Burdick (1918-1965) and Harvey Wheeler (1918-2004) co-authored \u201cFail-Safe,” a novel about an accidental nuclear attack on Russia. The popular and critically acclaimed novel was first adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O’Herlihy, and Walter Matthau.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anthony Burgess authored his dystopian novel \u201cA Clockwork Orange.” It was made into a 1971 movie by Stanley Kubrick.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Naked Lunch” by William Burroughs was published in the US after a precedent-setting obscenity trial. He also published “The Ticket That Exploded.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rachel Carson (d.1964) published “Silent Spring” and exposed the pesticide industry and its effects on the environment: “They should not be called \u2018insecticides\u2019, but \u2018biocides.\u2019” 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\u2019s 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Harvard Professor Richard Caves published a paper that used economic logic to show that price-regulation of airlines was unnecessary.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joan Crawford, film actress, published her autobiography, “Portrait of Joan,” written by Jane Ardmore (d.2000 at 88).
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roger Daniels authored \u201cThe Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) authored \u201cFrancis Bacon and the Modern Dilemma.” In 1973 it was published by Scribner as \u201cThe Man Who Saw Through Time.” Not to be confused with \u201cNostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time” (1994) by Lee McCann.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Milton Friedman (1912-2006) and his wife Rose published “Capitalism and Freedom,” a good summary of Friedman\u2019s economic thinking.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Herbert Gans authored “The Urban Villagers,” a study of the working-class in Boston\u2019s West End.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jacob Getzels (d.2001 at 89) authored “Creativity and Intelligence.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Harold Gilliam authored \u201cIsland In Time: The Point Reyes Peninsula.” A copy was sent to every member of Congress as a bill to create the Point Reyes National Seashore was being considered.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sebastian de Grazia (1917-2000), political scientist and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, authored \u201cOf Time, Work and Leisure.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eugene Ionesco, French absurdist playwright, wrote his play \u201cExit the King.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 1st edition of \u201cHistory of Art” by H.W. Janson was published.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 James Jones (d.1977) wrote “The Thin Red Line.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jack Kerouac authored his novel \u201cBig Sur.” Poet Lenore Kandel (1932-2009) was portrayed as Romana Swartz in the novel. Poet Lew Welch was portrayed as Dave Wain.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ken Kesey (1935-2001) published his novel: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle was published.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Ross McDonald (aka Kenneth Millar) Lew Archer mystery “The Zebra-Striped Hearse” was published.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian educator, authored \u201cThe Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man.” In it he analyzes the effects of mass media, especially the printing press, on European culture and human consciousness.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Walker Percy (1916-1990), physician, novelist (Lancelot), won the National Book Award for his book “The Moviegoer.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cartoonist Charles Shultz (b.1922) authored \u201cHappiness Is a Warm Puppy.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dido Sotiriou authored \u201cFarewell 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Steinbeck published his American journal “Travels with Charley.” It was based on a 1960 trip across America with his French poodle.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Edward Thorpe published “Beat the Dealer,” a player\u2019s guide on how to win in casino blackjack.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavior” by V.C. Wynne-Edwards was published.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marvel comics introduced “The Incredible Hulk” and “The Amazing Spider Man.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Herb Gardner\u2019s comedy “A Thousand Clowns” was first staged.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Broadway show “Little Me” played with burlesque star Joey Faye (d.1997) and Cid Caesar.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Edward Albee\u2019s “Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” hit Broadway with the first public use of four letter words.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robert Smith, a disk jockey in Shreveport, La., took on the name “Wolfman Jack.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The TV series “Combat” starred Dick Peabody (d.2000 at 74) as private Littlejohn. The series ran to 1967.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The “Match Game” with host Gene Rayburn (d.1999 at 81) made its debut on Dec 31 and ran for 7 years.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The TV show “Frontier Circus” featured Richard Hanley Jaeckel (d.1997) as cowboy scout Tony Gentry.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sir Michael Tippett, British composer, premiered his 2nd opera “King Priam.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tony Bennett won his first Grammy Award for \u201cI Left My Heart in San Francisco,” the record of the year. It was the B side of a record that featured \u201cOnce Upon a Time” on the A side.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Booker T. & the MGs made a hit with their instrumental \u201cGreen Onions.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Johnny Burke wrote the hit song “Misty.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Miles Davis and Gill Evans collaborated to produce “Quiet Nights,” a bossa nova album.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The jazz tune “Easy Money” was written by Benny Carter.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 John Lee Hooker sang “Boom Boom.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vinicius de Moraes, inspired by the stroll of a young woman (18) headed for Copacabana, wrote a poem that became known as \u201cThe Girl of Ipanema.” It was put to music by Jaoa Gilberto and Stan Getz and sung by Gilberto\u2019s 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978) wrote her song: “Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky…” She came up with the song when she saw the housing developments around Daly City, California built in the post-war era by Henry Doelger, particularly the neighborhood of Westlake. The song became a hit for her friend Pete Seeger in 1963.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mary Wells sang “You Beat me to the Punch.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Miracles sang “You\u2019ve Really Got a Hold on Me.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Quincy Jones produced the US debut album of Nana Mouskouri: “The Girl from Greece Sings.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bass Player Beverly Peer (1913-1997) joined singer-pianist Bobby Short.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Beatles released their first single: “Love me Do.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ray Charles made a hit with “I Can\u2019t Stop Loving You.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bob Dylan (b. Robert Zimmerman May 24, 1941) released his first album \u201cBob Dylan.” Zimmerman legally changed his name to Bob Dylan in this year.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pat Boone recorded his hit “Speedy Gonzalez.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chas Chandler (1939-1996) helped found the rock group “Animals” along with Hilton Valentine, Alan Price, John Steel and Eric Burdon.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Four Seasons with lead singer Frankie Valli had No. 1 hits with \u201cSherry” and \u201cBig Girls Don\u2019t Cry.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jerry Garcia, later of the Grateful Dead, played a 5-string banjo in the bluegrass band \u2018The Hart Valley Drifters,” later renamed “The Wildwood Boys.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards formed The Rolling Stones in London.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lou Rawls (1935-2006) released his 1st solo jazz album \u201cStormy Monday” recorded with the Les McCann Trio.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 1st Van Cliburn Int\u2019l. Piano Competition was held in Fort Worth, Texas.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Danny Thomas founded the St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The TWA terminal at Idlewild was designed by Eero Saarinen (d.1961).
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The planned community in Reston, Va., was built.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Time magazine called Presbyterian Rev. Robert McAfee Brown (d.2001 at 71) “the Catholic\u2019s favorite Protestant.” His books included “The Spirit of Protestantism.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Edward Keating (d.2003 at 77) founded Ramparts, a small Catholic magazine that grew to become a strong voice against the Vietnam War.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joseph Lyford (1918-1992), Chicago-born author, studied the inner workings of Vandalia, Ill., and published the book-length report \u201cThe Talk in Vandalia.” He became a journalism teacher in California and died in Orinda, Ca.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prof. Edward Shils (d.1995) founded the quarterly journal Minerva. It focused on science, policy and higher education.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yves Saint Laurent (b.1936), a fashion designer at the house of Dior, founded his own fashion house. Laurent announced his retirement in 2002.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 San Francisco\u2019s new Lowell High School campus opened on 27 acres at Eucalyptus Drive off 19th Avenue.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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\u2019s Cup.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Football stars Paul Hornung and Alex Karras were suspended for gambling on games.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Franklin Mieuli (1920-2010), SF Bay Area radio and TV producer, brought the Warriors basketball team from Philadelphia to SF with superstar Wilt Chamberlain. Mr. Mieuli and 32 partners purchased the Warriors from Eddie Gottlieb for $850,000. The SF Warriors basketball team chose the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca., as its new arena. In 1986 Mieuli sold his share in the team to Jim Fitzgerald for a reported $16-19 million.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pres. Kennedy signed an Executive Order maintaining the right of federal employees to join unions and negotiate on many issues.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The CIA established its code-named Operation Mongoose spurred by Attorney Gen\u2019l. Robert Kennedy to get rid of Fidel Castro.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Military spending this year rose to $55 billion.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Economist Arthur Okun (1928-1980) proposed an economic relationship relating unemployment to losses in a country’s production. It came to be know as Okun\u2019s Law.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first chemical munitions arrived at Oregon\u2019s Umatilla Chemical Depot and kept coming until 1969. It was all done in secret.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Augustus F. Hawkins (1907-2007) of south Los Angeles became the first black person from California to be elected to the US Congress.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Virginia General Assembly declared George Lincoln Rockwell\u2019s American Nazi Party an enemy of the state.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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).
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Florida Miccosukee Indian tribe gained federal recognition after its leaders made a state visit to Fidel Castro.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American Airlines rolled out its proprietary computerized reservation system, Sabre.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Binney & Smith Inc., makers of Crayola crayons, adopted the name “peach” to replace the color “flesh.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The B&O Railroad merged with the Chesapeake & Ohio and disappeared completely in 1987.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dow Jones launched the weekly National Observer, a general interest national newspaper. The paper closed in 1977 with cumulative losses of $16.2 million.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 \u201cTootsie.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Greyhound Corp. bought out Boothe Leasing.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Edwin Traisman (1915-2007), food researcher for McDonald\u2019s, 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\u2019s franchise in Madison, Wis., in the late 1950s.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Parker Brothers produced the TV show board game: \u201cMr. Ed the Talking Horse.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 1st Jeep Wagoneer, a precursor to the SUV, ran in a 2-or-4 wheel drive mode.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Glen Bell Jr. (d.2010 at 86) founded the Taco Bell fast food chain in Downey, Ca. He had launched Bell\u2019s Drive-In in 1948 in San Bernadino and later helped establish Taco Tias in Los Angeles, El Tacos in the Long Beach area and the Der Wienerschnitzel hot dog chain. In 1978 he sold his 868 Taco Bell restaurants to PepsiCo for $125 million in stock.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 \u201cSelling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers\u2019 Rights at Wal-Mart.” In 2006 Charles Fishman authored \u201cThe Wal-Mart Effect: How the World\u2019s Most Powerful Company Really Works \u2013 And How It\u2019s Transforming the American Economy” and Anthony Bianco authored \u201cThe Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Wal-Mart\u2019s Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sears, the Chicago-based retailer, hired film star Vincent Price to pick art pieces and serve as spokesman for selling its \u201cVincent price Collection of Fine Art.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The S.S. France cruise ship entered transatlantic service.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Union Oil of California (Unocal) introduced a large orange ball to display its \u201c76″ logo at West Coast gas stations. The balls started coming down in 2003.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AT&T Bell Labs scientists invented the communications satellite.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Corning Inc. invented an ultra-strong glass. In 1964 it developed a method called \u201cfusion draw” to manufacture what it called \u201cGorilla glass.” It only found strong commercial use with the development of LCDs for laptop computers and TVs.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nick Holonyak Jr., an engineer for General Electric, built the first light-emitting diode (LED). GE patented the discovery.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first radar signals were bounced off of the sun’s surface and provided accurate figures for geometrical measurements of the solar system.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Steve Russell at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created “Spacewar!”, one of the earliest video games for a digital computer.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Janet Sammet, American computer scientist, directed the development of the FORMAC programming language at IBM.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Walter Annenberg, owner of the Philadelphia Enquirer, established the M.L. Annenberg School for Communication at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kohl\u2019s 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arnold Friedman led the group that compiled “Classification of Headache.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Robert Good (d.2003 at 81) identified the thymus gland as a primary source for the body’s defense mechanisms.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The drug thalidomide crippled thousands of babies.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Herpes was reported to have been transmitted by an accidental needle stick.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sep 13, Pres. John F. Kennedy signed a bill into law creating the Point Reyes National Seashore. Boyd Stewart, a Marin, Ca., cattleman, helped create the Point Reyes National Seashore on 70,000 acres of grassland.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 \u201cThe Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A fire at the Golden Hotel in Reno, Nev., claimed 6 lives.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rex Bell, cowboy film star, died. His wife was Clara Bow.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Elbert Botts (b.1893), Caltrans chemist, died. He invented the “Botts dots,” highway lane markers that were first installed in California in 1966.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 \u201cThe first Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Robinson Jeffers (b.1887), poet, died. In 2001 Tim Hunt edited “Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Morris Louis (b.1912), artist, died.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose of sleeping pills.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of former president Franklin Roosevelt, died.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Al Tomaini, an 8-foot-4-inch circus performer and husband to Jeanie Tomaini, billed as the “World\u2019s Only Living Half Woman,” died.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Abu Dhabi began exporting the oil it just discovered off its shores.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A gas fire in Algeria called \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Cigarette Lighter” had burned for 6 months until it was put out by Texas firefighter Red Adair (1915-2004).
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Australia granted Aborigines the right to vote.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the Bahamas Huntington Harford, A&P supermarket heir, persuaded the authorities to rename Hog Island, across the bay from Nassau, to Paradise Island.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Britain the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) was formed.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The junta that seized power in Burma (later Myanmar) began expelling hundreds of thousands of Indians, Chinese and other non-Burmese in an attempt to smash the pleural society and create an artificially homogenous Burman one.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Int\u2019l. 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Ontario, Canada, the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake began its Shaw festival, producing plays written during George Bernard Shaw\u2019s lifetime, i.e. 1856-1950.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cuban bassist Israel Lopez (1918-2008), known as \u201cCachao,” left Cuba for Spain and soon relocated to NYC, where he performed with leading Latin bands.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Estonia convicted US resident Karl Linnas in absentia of being a Nazi war criminal and sentenced him to death.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In France a museum was added to the Chateau Mouton Rothschild. It housed a priceless collection of artwork related to wine.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The US Peace Corps began operating in Honduras.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Iranian writer, authored \u201cOccidentosis: A Plague from the West.” Here he coined the term \u201cWestoxification” to describe the loss of Iranian cultural identity through the adoption and imitation of Western models and Western criteria in education, the arts, and culture.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Ireland the Dubliners folk band formed in the Dublin pub O’Donoghue’s. The founders included Barney McKenna (1939-2012), Ronnie Drew (d.2008), Ciaran Bourke (d.1988) and Luke Kelly (d.1984).
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Italy valuables stripped from Jews during the war were moved to a vault in central Rome.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ryoichi Sasakawa (d.1995), billionaire boat racing tycoon, founded a foundation to support Japanese nationalistic projects. It came to be called the Nippon Foundation.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kuwait passed a law requiring women to get their husband’s signature to obtain a passport.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The first constitution of Morocco was ratified. It guaranteed freedom of the press and religion and created an elected legislature. Article 19 of the constitution enshrined the king\u2019s role as Commander of the Faithful.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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: \u201cCut up Khrushchev for sausages.”
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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\u2019s food reserves. The Panchem Lama was arrested and sent to Beijing for rehabilitation [for 14 years] until 1988.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Chinese exacted control over western Tibet and many nomad refugees fled to Ladakh. Only 70 of Tibet\u2019s 2,500 Buddhist monasteries remained.
1962\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Venezuela\u2019s Pres. Romulo Bettancourt announced the cessation of oil exploration concessions to private companies. His energy minister became OPEC\u2019s founder.
1962-1963\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Merv Griffin hosted the daytime talk show \u201cThe Merv Griffin Show.”
1962-1965\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962-1967\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lawrence Halprin served as the master designer for the Sea Ranch development at the Rancho del Mar sheep ranch on the Northern California coast. His proposal for the FDR Monument in Washington was accepted in 1974. Sea Ranch was completed in 1998 with 1,600 homes on 4,000 acres. In 2004 Donlyn Lyndon and Jim Alinder authored \u201cThe Sea Ranch.” Developer and architect Alfred Boeke (1923-2011) hired Halprin for the project.
1962-1970\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962-1971\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.”
1962-1972\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Vietnam giant US tanker planes sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange on the once lush DMZ in order to eradicate the enemy\u2019s 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.
1962-1973\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.
1962-1975\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A 13 year effort in Mozambique finally succeeded in eliminating the Portuguese colonists.
1962-1976\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oman experienced a rebellion in the Dhofar region during this period. It was finally quelled by Sultan Qaboos.
1962-1978\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zubin Mehta served as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
1962-1988\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gen\u2019l. Ne Win ruled over Burma. During his rule he periodically reorganized the government with a purge where powerful opponents were either jailed or banished.