1962 in History (Part 4)

Events in History

Events 301 - 400 of 466

• Sep 1 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 2 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• Sep 4 French president De Gaulle visits German FR
• Sep 6 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 8 Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
• Sep 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 8 Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 'Evening Star'
• Sep 9 Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
• Sep 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 15 KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk
• Sep 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 16 Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
• Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 17 Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools
• Sep 17 US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts
• Sep 18 Charlie Finley is denied permission to move As to Dallas-Fort Worth


• Sep 18 Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN
• Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 19 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 20 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria

• Sep 23 Martin Walser's "Esche und Angora" premieres in Berlin
• Sep 23 NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts
• Sep 24 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi
• Sep 25 Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon, Georgia
• Sep 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Sep 25 "New Painting of Common Objects" exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum opens - 1st show on American Pop Art
• Sep 26 Yemen Arab Republic proclaimed (National Day)
• Sep 27 Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen
• Sep 27 US sells Israel Hawk anti-aircraft missiles

• Sep 28 Alouette (Canada), 1st Canadian satellite, launched
• Sep 28 Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.
• Sep 29 Algerian government of Ben Bella forms
• Sep 29 Indians & Angels set AL record of 40 strikeouts in a doubleheader

• Sep 29 Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
• Sep 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 30 A's Bill Fischer ends 84 1/3 consecutive innings pitched without a walk
• Sep 30 JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi
• Sep 30 James Meredith registers for classes at University of Mississippi

• Oct 1 James Meredith becomes the 1st black student at the University of Mississippi
• Oct 1 The Lucy Show premieres
• Oct 1 UN gives Netherlands control of New Guinea
• Oct 1 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope
• Oct 2 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• Oct 3 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
• Oct 4 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
• Oct 6 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• Oct 7 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• Oct 8 Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
• Oct 8 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party
• Oct 8 Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", uncovering sorry state of West German army. Magazine soon accused of treason.
• Oct 9 Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
• Oct 9 NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m
• Oct 9 Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
• Oct 10 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
• Oct 11 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show

• Oct 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 12 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
• Oct 12 Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
• Oct 14 Houston Oiler George Blanda throws for 6 TD passes vs NY Titans 56-17
• Oct 14 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba
• Oct 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 15 Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court
• Oct 16 Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice

• Oct 18 JFK meets Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko
• Oct 18 US launches Ranger 5 for lunar impact; misses Moon
• Oct 18 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island

• Oct 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 20 Chinese army lands in India
• Oct 20 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• Oct 22 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis
• Oct 22 JFK receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote
• Oct 22 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
• Oct 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• Oct 23 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m
• Oct 24 Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba
• Oct 25 110th member of UN admitted (Uganda)
• Oct 25 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation

• Oct 25 US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
• Oct 26 JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba

• Oct 26 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island

• Oct 27 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• Oct 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 27 The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian oil industry's most powerful figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances
• Oct 28 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
• Oct 28 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 28 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement
• Oct 30 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
• Nov 1 Greece enters European Common Market
• Nov 1 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island

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