Events Date 1962 P 4 | History by KabAstro

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Please Please Me

Nov 26 The Beatles re-record "Please Please Me" at a faster tempo, based on producer George Martin's suggestion

Nov 27 1st Boeing 727 jet rolls out of assembly plant in Renton, Washington [1]
Nov 27 Sumner Arthur Long's play "Never Too Late" premieres in NYC
Nov 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 28 Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored
Nov 29 Great Britain & France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner
Nov 29 Major League Baseball decides to revert to 1 All-Star game per year, after 4 seasons in which 2 All-Star games were played
Dec 1 Classifications in minor league baseball are overhauled; Eastern and South Atlantic leagues are promoted from Class-A to Class-AA; classes B, C and D are abolished with those leagues being promoted to Class-A
Dec 1 KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
Dec 3 1963 NFL Draft: Terry Baker from Oregon State first pick by Los Angeles Rams
Dec 3 Edith Sampson sworn-in as 1st Black female judge in the state of Illinois
Dec 3 Pravda criticizes western art
Dec 4 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 6 US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program
Dec 7 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 8 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
Dec 8 Attempted coup in British-controlled Brunei

Queen Wilhelmina's Funeral

Dec 8 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)

Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Dec 9 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
Dec 9 Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth

Lawrence of Arabia

Dec 10 David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia", based on life of T. E. Lawrence and starring Peter O'Toole, premieres at Odeon Leicester Square (Academy Awards Best Picture 1963)

Dec 10 Hunters Point (San Francisco) jitney ends service after 50 years
Dec 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 13 Relay 1 communication satellite launched
Dec 14 Mariner 2 makes 1st US fly-by of another planet (Venus)
Dec 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1st Family

Dec 15 Comedian-impressionist Vaughn Meader's "1st Family" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 weeks

Lawrence of Arabia

Dec 16 "Lawrence of Arabia" film directed by David Lean and starring Peter O'Toole, is released in the United States

Dec 16 Nepal establishes its constitution and becomes a Constitutional Hindu Monarchy
Dec 16 NY Giant Y. A. Tittle sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
Dec 17 Beatles 1st British TV appearance on "People & Places"
Dec 17 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
Dec 18 Ballon d'Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger

Shostakovich's 13th Symphony

Dec 18 Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony premieres in Moscow

Dec 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Dec 18 WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
Dec 19 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
Dec 19 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
Dec 19 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched

Osmond Brothers Debut

Dec 20 Pop singing group the Osmond Brothers debut on "The Andy Williams Show"

Dec 21 Angolin leaves Comecon
Dec 21 US & Cuba negotiate accord for Cuba to release "Bay of Pigs" captives in exchange for $23M worth of medicine and baby food [1]
Dec 22 1,000,000th NBA point scored
Dec 22 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
Dec 22 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
Dec 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Dec 23 AFL Championship, Jeppesen Stadium, Houston: Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers, 20-17; Tommy Brooker lands winning 25-yard field goal in overtime
Dec 23 Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
Dec 24 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

"To Kill a Mockingbird"

Dec 25 "To Kill a Mockingbird", a film adaptation of the novel by Harper Lee, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck, is released (Gregory Peck - Best Actor Academy Awards 1963)

Dec 25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Dec 26 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Katerina Ismailova" premieres at the Stanislavski-Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre, in Moscow, USSR
Dec 27 28th Heisman Trophy Award: Terry Baker, Oregon State (QB)
Dec 28 UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga

Hill F1 Champion

Dec 29 British driver Graham Hill wins the South African Grand Prix at Prince George Circuit in a BRM; takes out his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Scotsman Jim Clark

Dec 31 "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
Dec 31 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
Dec 31 Dutch leave New Guinea
Dec 31 Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo
Dec 31 Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs