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- Dec 4 Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
- Dec 4 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
- Dec 4 WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Dec 4 The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain
- Dec 4 1962 NFL Draft: Ernie Davis from University of Syracuse first pick by Washington Redskins
- Dec 6 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB) (1st African American to win)
- Dec 8 Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
- Dec 8 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
- Dec 8 South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
Event of Interest
Dec 8 Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78
Wilt Chamberlain
- Dec 9 "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 performances
- Dec 9 "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 performances
- Dec 9 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania
- Dec 10 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
- Dec 10 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
- Dec 10 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon
Robert Hofstadter
- Dec 11 "Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes released
#1 in the Charts
Dec 11 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
Elvis Presley
John F. Kennedy
'The Banality of Evil'
Dec 12 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel
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- Dec 12 Amateur radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
Event of Interest
Dec 12 Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstrators are arrested in Albany, Georgia
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Dec 13 The Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
Event of Interest
Dec 13 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
- Dec 13 Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
Film Premier
Dec 13 "The Young Ones" directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Cliff Richard, Robert Morley and Carole Gray premieres in London
Cliff Richard
- Dec 14 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
- Dec 15 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel
- Dec 15 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
- Dec 15 JFK visits Puerto Rico
- Dec 15 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
- Dec 16 "Evening with Yves Montand" closes at John Golden Theatre, NYC after 55 performances
- Dec 17 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
- Dec 17 Niteroi Circus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil catches fire; 323 die after disgruntled employee sets fire to the tent
- Dec 18 Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles
- Dec 18 For 2nd consecutive year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
- Dec 18 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
- Dec 18 KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
- Dec 18 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
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Dec 23 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies
Fidel Castro
Event of Interest
Dec 28 Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana" premieres in NYC
Tennessee Williams
- Dec 28 50th Davis Cup: Australia beats Italy in Melbourne (5-0)
Music Premiere
Dec 30 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 4th Symphony in Moscow (completed 1936)
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Dec 31 "lrma La Douce" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances
- Dec 31 The Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name
- Dec 31 Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon
- Dec 31 Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
- Dec 31 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion