February 1962

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February 17, 1962: 345 West Germans die in North Sea floods
February 20, 1962: John Glenn becomes first American in orbit

The following events occurred in February 1962:

February 1, 1962 (Thursday)

  • The Soviet Union and Ghana ratified a $42,000,000,000 trade pact, with Soviet engineers to assist in the construction of new industries and railroad lines in the West African nation.[1]
  • U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered "the first presidential message entirely devoted to public welfare",[2] proposing that federal aid to the poor be extended to include job training programs and day care for children of working parents.[3]
  • NASA Headquarters announced that John Glenn's Mercury 6 mission would be launched no earlier than February 13, and that repair of the Atlas launch vehicle fuel tank leak would be completed well before that time.[4]
  • Born: Takashi Murakami, Japanese contemporary artist; in Tokyo
  • Died: Westropp Bennett, 95, Irish politician[citation needed]

February 2, 1962 (Friday)

February 2, 1962: John Uelses hits new world record

February 3, 1962 (Saturday)

  • At 7:05 a.m. Indian Standard Time (0135 UTC), a "doomsday period" (as predicted by Hindu astrologers) began. It was reported that the astrologers had predicted that on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the earth would be "bathed in the blood of thousands of kings" because of the alignment of six planets, the Earth, the Sun and the Moon.[13] In Britain, Aetherias Society director Keith Robertson spent the next day awaiting disaster, along with many of the society's members. He had forecast that "very soon the world will do a 'big flip' when the poles will change places with the equator... 75 percent of the world's population will be killed", but the alignment and eclipse ended without any notable disaster.[14]
  • The
    Presidential Proclamation 3447 was made pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, "effective 12:01 A.M., Eastern Standard Time, February 7, 1962".[16]
  • U.S. wrestlers Luther Lindsay & Ricky Waldo defeated Toyonobori & Rikidōzan in Tokyo to win the All Asia Tag Team Championship.[17]
  • Born: Michelle Maenza, last victim of the Alphabet murders (d. 1973); in Rochester, New York[18]

February 4, 1962 (Sunday)

February 4, 1962: St. Jude Hospital established
  • The
    Saint Jude Thaddaeus (patron saint of the lost and helpless) "if I made good". After becoming successful, he began raising funds in 1951. Fifty years later, the hospital was treating 7,800 children per year at no cost, and funding cancer research worldwide.[19][20]
  • Gnostic Philosopher Samael Aun Weor declared February 4, 1962, to be the beginning of the "Age of Aquarius", heralded by the alignment of the first six planets, the Sun, the Moon, and the constellation Aquarius.[21]
  • The Sunday Times became the first paper in the United Kingdom to print a colour supplement. At the time that the Colour Section was introduced, such supplements "were already commonplace in North America".[22]
  • Born: Clint Black, American country music singer; in Long Branch, New Jersey[23]
  • Died: Jacob Kramer, 69, UK-based Ukrainian painter[24]

February 5, 1962 (Monday)

Ringo Starr

February 6, 1962 (Tuesday)

  • The Warner Brothers studio outbid MGM for the movie rights to produce the Broadway hit musical, My Fair Lady, for the unprecedented price of USD$5,500,000. The deal included an agreement to pay the play's owners 47.5% of any gross revenues over $20,000,000 and a 5% of the distributors' gross to the estate of George Bernard Shaw, upon whose play Pygmalion, the Lerner & Loewe musical had been based. The bid was more than twice the old record, $2,270,000 paid by 20th Century Fox in 1958 for the rights to South Pacific.[30]
  • Víctor Balaguer
    with the song "Llámame", selected by representatives of regional radio stations.
  • The city of Memphis, Tennessee, ordered the desegregation of its lunch counters, formerly limited to white customers only.[31]
  • Negotiations between U.S. Steel and the United States Department of Commerce began.
  • Born: Axl Rose, American rock musician and lead vocalist for Guns N' Roses; as William Bruce Rose Jr. in Lafayette, Indiana[32]
  • Died: Candido Portinari, 58, Brazilian painter, of lead poisoning from paint[33]

February 7, 1962 (Wednesday)

  • The
    U.F.O. sightings, there was no evidence that any of the 7,369 unidentified flying object reports indicated a threat to national security, any technological advances "beyond the range of our present day scientific knowledge", and no sign of "extraterrestrial vehicles under intelligent controls".[34]
  • The United States government ban against all U.S.-related Cuban imports (and nearly all exports) went into effect at one minute after midnight. The next day, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR approved a $133 million program of military aid to Cuba, after having delayed action on it for four months.[35]
  • LPGA Tour event.[37]
  • A coal mine explosion in Saarland, West Germany, killed 299 people. The blast occurred at the coal mine, located near Völklingen, at around 9:00 a.m.[38]
  • Born: Garth Brooks, American country singer and songwriter; in Tulsa, Oklahoma[39]

February 8, 1962 (Thursday)

February 9, 1962 (Friday)

February 10, 1962 (Saturday)

Powers
Abel

February 11, 1962 (Sunday)

February 12, 1962 (Monday)

February 13, 1962 (Tuesday)

  • A crowd of at least 150,000 people, and perhaps as many as 500,000 marched in Paris in the first massive protest against the continuing
    Charonne metro station the previous Thursday. With many of the participants walking off of their jobs to protest, business in Paris and much of France was brought to a halt.[56]
  • Born: May Sweet, Myanmar singer and actress; in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar)
  • Died: Hugh Dalton, 74, Welsh politician and former British Chancellor of the Exchequer

February 14, 1962 (Wednesday)

February 14, 1962: Jackie Kennedy gives White House tour on TV

February 15, 1962 (Thursday)

February 16, 1962 (Friday)

  • Voting in India's national parliamentary election commenced, with 210 million voters going to the polls. There were 14,744 candidates for the 494 seats in the Lok Sabha and the 2,930 seats in the legislatures of 13 Indian states.[65] The final result was that 119,904,284 eligible voters participated, and the Indian National Congress, led by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, won 361 (or about 73%) of the seats. The Communist Party of India was a distant second with 29 seats (6%).[66]
  • U.S. President Kennedy issued nine
    Executive Orders, numbered 10095 to 11105, delegating "emergency preparedness functions" for various federal agencies and departments, to be implemented in the event of a national emergency that required a declaration of martial law.[67][68]
  • Rioters in British Guiana (now Guyana) set fire to much of the capital city of Georgetown, as Guianans of African descent attacked those of Indian descent. British troops were sent in to restore order.[69][70]
  • Walter C. Williams, Project Mercury Operations Director, announced that because of weather conditions February 20 would be the earliest date that the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission could be launched.[4]

February 17, 1962 (Saturday)

281 dead in Hamburg

February 18, 1962 (Sunday)

February 19, 1962 (Monday)

February 20, 1962 (Tuesday)

February 20, 1962: Launch of Friendship 7

February 21, 1962 (Wednesday)

February 22, 1962 (Thursday)

February 23, 1962 (Friday)

February 23, 1962: John Glenn receives the NASA Distinguished Service Medal from President Kennedy
  • Astronaut John Glenn arrived in Cape Canaveral to a hero's welcome and was reunited with his family for the first time since before going into space. U.S. President John F. Kennedy, for whom Cape Canaveral would be renamed temporarily during the 1960s and early 1970s, greeted Glenn and personally awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to Glenn and Robert R. Gilruth.[4][96] Kennedy praised Glenn for "professional skill, unflinching courage and extraordinary ability to perform a most difficult task under physical stress."[96] It was then that Glenn revealed in an interview that the heat shield on his capsule began to break up upon re-entry, the loss of which would have been fatal. Glenn calmly said, "it could have been a bad day for everybody".[97]
  • Born: Lise Haavik, Norwegian singer; in Narvik
  • Died: James Halliday McDunnough, 84, Canadian entomologist who identified almost 1,500 different species of butterflies in North America[98]

February 24, 1962 (Saturday)

General arrangement of liquid rocket systems (OAMS and RCS) in the Gemini spacecraft

February 25, 1962 (Sunday)

  • The Judy Garland Show, a one-off special, appeared on the United States TV channel CBS and received a 49.5 rating, the highest rating CBS had had for a variety show to that time. The success of the special led to a weekly series in 1963, which CBS cancelled after a year because of low ratings.[103]
  • Inspection of Atlas launch vehicle 107-D, designated for the May 24 Mercury 7 mission of Scott Carpenter, was conducted at the Convair Division of General Dynamics in San Diego.[4]
  • Born: Birgit Fischer, German kayaker; Olympic gold medalist in 1980 and 1988, and world champion in 1978–79, 1981–83, 1985 and 1987 for East Germany; Olympic gold medalist in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 and world champion in 1993–95, 1997–98 for united Germany; in Brandenburg an der Havel[104]

February 26, 1962 (Monday)

February 26, 1962: John Glenn receives key to the city in Washington, D.C., as six-year-old Maria Shriver looks on

February 27, 1962 (Tuesday)

  • Sublieutenant
    Ngô Đình Diệm. One of the 500-pound (230 kg) bombs landed in the room where the President and his advisers were but failed to detonate because it had been dropped from too low an altitude to arm itself. Quốc was arrested after being forced to land, while Cử fled to neighboring Cambodia. Both men would be reinstated to the Air Force after Diem's assassination in 1963.[108][109]
  • After getting word that U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was preparing to fire him from his job as Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover gave the Attorney General a memorandum of an FBI investigation of Judith Exner, noting that she had made phone calls to the private line of Robert's brother, U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Hoover remained FBI Director until his death in 1972.[110]
  • The United Kingdom's House of Commons voted 277–170 in favor of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962, designed to limit the immigration into Great Britain by residents of India, Pakistan, and the West Indies.[111]
  • An explosion at the Tito Coal Mine in
    Bosnia republic of Yugoslavia, trapped 177 miners underground. Rescuers were able to save 123 of the men, but 54 were trapped inside and died.[112]

February 28, 1962 (Wednesday)

  • A group of 15 American
    Izmir U.S. Air Force Base at Çiğli, within range to strike the Soviet Union 1,000 miles (1,600 km) away. The presence of American nuclear missiles in a nation bordering the USSR became an issue eight months later during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Soviet nuclear missiles were brought to Cuba, within striking distance of the United States. The missiles would be withdrawn from both Turkey and Cuba following the crisis.[113]
  • Professor
    Spanish Republican government in Exile. He would hold the position for nine years.[114]
  • Cavern Club in Liverpool on a triple bill with Gerry and the Pacemakers and Johnny Sandon and the Searchers.[115]

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