Historical Events in January 1962

Jan 5 Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints"

Jan 7 Assassination attempt fails on Indonesian President Sukarno

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 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
Jan 11 Volcano Huascaran in Peru erupts killing 4,000
Jan 12 Operation Chopper begins, America's first combat mission in the Vietnam War
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 15 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] is the subject of the BBC TV programme "This is Your Life"

Jan 15 50th Women's Australian Championships: Margaret Court beats Jan Lehane O'Neill (6-0, 6-2)

Jan 15 50th Men's Australian Championships: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (8-6, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4)

Jan 17 NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690m

Jan 23 British intellegence officer Kim Philby defects to USSR

Jan 23 Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
Jan 23 "Jules et Jim", based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, directed by François Truffau and starring Jeanne Moreau is released
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 African American elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame. Bob Feller is also elected.

Jan 26 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
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 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 30 Laughter epidemic begins at a girls' mission school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, goes on to affect 14 schools and over 1000 people
Jan 31 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
Jan 31 Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout", first African American to command a combat ship