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- Sep 22 MLB Baltimore Orioles Jim Gentile ties record of 5 grand slams in a single season
Music History
Sep 22 Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" premieres at Warsaw Autumn Festival,Andrzej Markowski conducting Kraków Philharmonic
Baseball Record
Sep 26 Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record
Baseball Record
Sep 27 Sandy Koufax sets NL strikeout season record at 269
- Sep 27 Sierre Leone becomes 100th member of UN
- Sep 28 "Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV
Hazel
Sep 28 "Hazel" starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV
Dr. Kildare
Sep 28 American medical drama series "Dr. Kildare", starring Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, premieres on NBC-TV
- Sep 28 Syria withdraws from United Arab Republic
- Sep 28 USN Comdr Forrest S Petersen takes X-15 to 30,720 m
- Sep 28 Walt Disney's movie "Grey Friars Bobby" premieres
- Sep 29 "Detectives" TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV
- Sep 29 Mamum Kuzbari becomes premier of Syria
Boston Tea Party
Sep 30 Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
- Oct 1 A volcanco believed to be extinct erupts in Tristan da Cunha
- Oct 1 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
- Oct 1 KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 1 NY Yankees right-fielder Roger Maris becomes MLB’s all-time home run leader when he passes Babe Ruth's mark with No. 61 off Boston rookie Tracy Stallard in 1-0 win at Yankee Stadium
Music Premiere
Oct 1 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 12nd Symphony
- Oct 1 The Beach Boys record their debut single "Surfin", introducing a new musical style
- Oct 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 1 WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Oct 1 WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
- Oct 2 American medical drama series "Ben Casey", starring Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe, premieres on ABC-TV
- Oct 2 USSR performs 250 kilo-ton nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- Oct 2 WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, D.C. (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 2 WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, Vitginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Oct 3 "The Dick Van Dyke Show" created by Carl Reiner, starring Dick van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore premieres on CBS-TV
- Oct 3 KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 3 TV sitcom "Mr Ed" premieres on CBS
- Oct 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Oct 5 "Breakfast at Tiffany's" film, based on the novella by Truman Capote, directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, and Buddy Ebsen, premieres
- Oct 5 China & Nepal sign treaty
- Oct 6 USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 8 American Phil Hill's Ferrari team does not participate in season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen having already clinched World Drivers Championship; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus' first ever Grand Prix
- Oct 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- Oct 9 Tanganyika, in east Africa, becomes independent within British Commonwealth
- Oct 9 US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police
- Oct 9 Volcanic eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic)
- Oct 10 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros & NY Mets
- Oct 10 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
- Oct 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
The Bob Newhart Show
Oct 10 Variety TV show "The Bob Newhart Show" premieres on NBC in the US
Event of Interest
Oct 17 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m
- Oct 18 Emergency crisis proclaimed in South Vietnam due to communist attack
West Side Story
Oct 18 Film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical "West Side Story", directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, and starring Natalie Wood, premieres (Academy Award - Best Picture, 1962)
Event of Interest
Oct 18 NY's Museum of Modern Art displays Henri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" upside down, takes 47 days and 116,000 people before someone notices [1]
Music History
Oct 21 Barbra Streisand opens in "Another Evening with Harry Stones"
- Oct 21 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
- Oct 22 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium
- Oct 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 26 First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle
- Oct 27 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
- Oct 27 American Basketball League starts play
Music Premiere
Oct 27 David Diamond's 8th Symphony premieres with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein
- Oct 27 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of United Nations
- Oct 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR
- Oct 28 "Fiorello!" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC starring Tom Bosley after 796 performances and a Pulitzer Prize
- Oct 28 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
- Oct 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 30 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated
- Oct 31 Federal judge rules that laws in Birmingham, Alabama, against integrated playing fields are illegal
- Oct 31 Hurricane Hattie kills 400 in British Honduras
- Nov 2 Max Frisch's play "Andorra" premieres in Zürich
Election of Interest
Nov 3 UN General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant as acting Secretary-General after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash
Event of Interest
Nov 5 India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru arrives in NY
- Nov 5 NFL St Louis Cardinals' Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas Cowboys
- Nov 6 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball - actually Canadian)
- Nov 7 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
- Nov 8 Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die
Whitney Wins Cy Young
Nov 8 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
- Nov 9 Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" premieres in NYC
- Nov 9 PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
The Beatles Meet Epstein
Nov 9 The Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein after a lunch time performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
- Nov 9 The X-15 rocket plane under USAF Major Robert M White achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
- Nov 11 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published by Simon and Schuster in New York
- Nov 11 Adulterous couple ride a dung cart through Staphorst, Netherlands
- Nov 11 City of Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
- Nov 11 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
- Nov 13 Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
- Nov 13 WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Nov 15 Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
- Nov 15 Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
- Nov 15 UN bans nuclear arms
- Nov 16 United Kingdom limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
- Nov 16 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops
- Nov 18 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
- Nov 18 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
Banda's 7 touchdowns
Nov 19 Houston Oilers quarterback George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns in a 49-13 rout of NY Titans at Jeppesen Stadium, Houston
Robinson NL MVP
Nov 22 Frank Robinson, Cincinnati Reds outfielder, selected as NL MVP
Making Connery a Star
Nov 22 Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
Pettit's Free Throw Record
Nov 22 St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws
- Nov 26 For 2nd time in his career, St Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions
- Nov 26 Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball
Howe 1st to 1,000 Games
Nov 27 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
- Nov 27 KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Nov 28 General Meeting of UN debates New Guinea
Der Abstecher
Nov 28 German writer Martin Walser's play "Der Abstecher" (The Detour) premieres in Munich
McCone CIA Director
Nov 29 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone
- Nov 29 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
- Nov 29 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA
- Nov 29 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
- Nov 30 Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 30 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Nov 30 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
- Dec 1 The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
Leading Cuba to Communism
Dec 2 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist & will lead Cuba to Communism
- Dec 2 Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing
- Dec 3 Dutchman Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion
- Dec 3 George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
- Dec 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Ernie Davis
Dec 4 1962 NFL Draft: Ernie Davis, University of Syracuse RB #1 pick by Washington Redskins
Patterson vs. McNeeley
Dec 4 Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
- Dec 4 NY's Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" the right side up, after stock-broker Genevieve Habert notices it is displayed upside down, the first of 116,000 people in 47 days to notice [1]
- Dec 4 Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
- Dec 4 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
Contraceptive Pill
Dec 4 The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain
- Dec 4 WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Dec 6 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse RB; 1st African American to win)
- Dec 8 Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
- Dec 8 Construction workers top off the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington, less 8 months after work began
- Dec 8 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
Chamberlain's 78 Points
Dec 8 Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores 78 points in 151-147 3OT defeat to LA Lakers at Philadelphia Civic Center; 2nd highest game total in the NBA history
- Dec 8 South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
- Dec 9 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania - with Ukuru (Freedom) Torch lit on the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro
Cannon Rush/Receiving Record
Dec 10 Houston Oilers utility back Billy Cannon gains AFL record 373 yards combined rushing/receiving in 48-21 win over NY Titans at the Polo Grounds, NYC
Physics Nobel to Hofstadter, Mössbauer
Dec 10 Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleon
- Dec 10 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
- Dec 10 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
Blue Hawaii
Dec 11 Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
Omar Sívori Wins
Dec 12 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' Argentine forward Omar Sívori wins award for best football player in Europe ahead of Spanish midfielder Luis Suárez and English forward Johnny Haynes
Adolf Eichmann Guilty
Dec 12 Nazi German army officer Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel
The Young Ones
Dec 13 "The Young Ones" directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Cliff Richard, Robert Morley and Carole Gray premieres in London
Death Penalty Demand for Eichmann
Dec 13 Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
- Dec 13 The Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
- Dec 14 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
- Dec 15 Court in Israel sentences Nazi party official Adolf Eichmann to death for war crimes for his participation in organizing the Holocaust
- Dec 15 Equal access rule, US political parties get TV broadcasting time
- Dec 15 L. J. Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium
King Joins Jailed Albany Protesters
Dec 15 Martin Luther King Jr. joins over 500 civil rights demonstrators in jail, arrested for protesting in Albany, Georgia [1] [2]
- Dec 15 US President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy visit Puerto Rico - last official sitting presidential visit until Barack Obama in 2011
- Dec 17 India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
- Dec 17 Niteroi Circus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil catches fire; 323 die after disgruntled employee sets fire to the tent
Sports History
Dec 18 For second consecutive year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
- Dec 18 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
- Dec 18 KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
Operation Trikora
Dec 19 Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization for Operation Trikora in preparation for attempting to seize Netherlands New Guinea
J.F.K., MacMillan Meeting
Dec 21 US President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meet in Bermuda
- Dec 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 23 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies
- Dec 23 KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
- Dec 23 Train accident in Italy, 70 die
- Dec 24 AFL Championship, Balboa Stadium, San Diego: Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3; Billy Cannon scores game's only TD
- Dec 27 Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations
"Subways Are For Sleeping"
Dec 27 Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's musical "Subways Are For Sleeping" premieres at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 205 performances
"Night of the Iguana"
Dec 28 Tennessee Williams' play "Night of the Iguana" premieres in NYC
- Dec 30 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 4th Symphony in Moscow (completed 1936)
- Dec 31 Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon
- Dec 31 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
- Dec 31 The Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name
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