February 1962 in History

Events in History

Feb 3 US President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs

Feb 4 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
Feb 4 US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
Feb 5 French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence
Feb 5 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools, filed
Feb 5 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all within 16 degrees
Feb 6 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
Feb 7 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
Feb 7 US President JFK begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports.
Feb 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 8 In Paris, 8 people killed at a protest against independence for the French colony Algeria
Feb 9 Jamaica signs agreement to become independent
Feb 9 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 10 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
Feb 10 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
Feb 12 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia

Feb 14 US 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV

Feb 20 John Glenn become 1st American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7

Feb 21 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen, Netherlands
Feb 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 24 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
Feb 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 25 India Congress Party wins elections

Feb 27 South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm's palace bombed by dissident air pilots in a failed assassination attempt

Feb 4 Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
Feb 9 Martin D Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
Feb 11 Tammy Baldwin, American politician
Feb 13 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Feb 14 Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist (d. 2002)
Feb 17 Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer and 1st woman to climb Mount Everest alone without bottled oxygen (1995), born in Derbyshire, England (d. 1995)
Feb 19 John Laroche, American orchid poacher
Feb 20 Kenn Nesbitt, American children's author
Feb 21 Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
Feb 21 David Foster Wallace, American writer
Feb 22 Lenda Murray, body builder (4X Ms Olympia), born in Detroit, Michigan

Feb 3 Werner Bock, writer, dies
Feb 7 Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
Feb 10 Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter and graphic artist, dies at 83
Feb 19 Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)
Feb 25 Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81