Historical Events in August 1962

Aug 4 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police

Aug 5 1st quasar located by radio
Aug 5 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and for illegally leaving South 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 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 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15

Aug 16 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles' drummer, first official concert two days later

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 first hit "If I Had a Hammer"
Aug 19 Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55
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 attempt 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 25 23rd Venice Film Festival: "Family Diary" directed by Valerio Zurlini and "Ivan's Childhood" directed by Andrei Tarkovsky jointly awarded Golden Lion
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)