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Saturday June 02, 1962
US date format: 6/2/1962, UK date format: 2/6/1962
It was Saturday, under the sign of Gemini (see birth chart on June 2, 1962). The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democrat).
Famous people born on this day include Denis Baupin and Guy Lecluyse.
In that special week of June people in US were listening to I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles.
In UK Good Luck Charm by Elvis Presley was in the top 5 hits.
Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Sidney Lumet, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1962
while The Fox In The Attic by Richard Hughes was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching The Big Pull.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Spacewar!.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
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Movies
Which were the most popular Movies released in those months?
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Country: United States of America
Carnival of Souls
Directed by: Herk Harvey
Starring: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison
Country: United States of America
The Master of Ballantrae
Directed by: William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell
Big Red
Directed by: Norman Tokar
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Émile Genest, Janette Bertrand
The Miracle Worker
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Country: United States of America
Historical Events
Which were the important events of June 02, 1962?
- Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy.
- Shavuoth (Judaism) (2006).
- Xenia name day in Slovakia.
- The Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Nicephorus' death - see also March 13.
Holidays
- 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
Events
- Denis Baupin: French politician, the Deputy Mayor of...
- Guy Lecluyse
- Ian Shaw: British singer and pianist known for his...
- Darnell Coles: Baseball player.
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Famous Birthday
- Franc S Finzgar: Slovic writer (Service Girls).
- V Sackville-West: Writer, dies at 70.
- Vita Sackville-West: British poet, novelist, and...
Famous Deaths
Music charts
Which were the top hits in that special week of June 02, 1962?
- Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
- Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore
- The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
- Dion - Lovers Who Wander
- Dee Dee Sharp - Mashed Potato Time
- Brenda Lee - Everybody Loves Me But You
- Ernie Maresca - Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)
- Walter Brennan - Old Rivers
- Mary Wells - The One Who Really Loves You
- Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance
Top #10 songs in the USA
- Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm
- Do You Want To Dance / I'm Looking Out The Window - Cliff Richard
- Mike Sarne With Wendy Richard - Come Outside
- Joe Brown - A Picture Of You
- B Bumble & The Stingers - Nut Rocker
Top #5 songs in the UK
- Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
- Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
- The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
- Dee Dee Sharp - Mashed Potato Time
- James Brown And The Famous Flames - Night Train
- Mary Wells - The One Who Really Loves You
- Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore
- Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)
- The Marvelettes - Playboy
- King Curtis And The Noble Knights - Soul Twist
Top #10 R&B songs
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TV Series
Which were the most popular TV Series released in those months?
The Big Pull
Starring: John Barrett, Michael Browning, Jean Dallas, Felix Deebank
Richard the Lionheart
Directed by: Dermot Walsh
Starring: Dermot Walsh, Robin Hunter, Alan Haywood, Iain Gregory
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Andromeda Breakthrough
Fitil
Musik erklingt...
Magazine Covers
What news were making the headlines those days in June 1962?
- LIFE: Rene Carpenter
- Time: TIME Magazine Cover: Bear v. Bull -- June 1, 1962
- SportsIllustrated: Sports Illustrated: no.7770
Books
Which were the most popular books released in the last weeks?
The Fox In The Attic
By: Richard Hughes
A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes’s monumental historical fiction, “The Human Predicament.”
The Agony and the Ecstasy
By: Irving Stone
Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel of Michaelangelo—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven …
Ship of Fools
By: Katherine Anne Porter
The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests.
Chairman Of The Bored
By: Edward Streeter
Stated first edition, printed in 1961 by Harper; pages clean and tight, some yellowing, 274 pages.
O'Neill
By: Arthur and Barbara Gelb
Never before in the annals of American letters have biographers returned to their subject with the aim of radically rethinking and retelling their story form beginning to end.
Videogames
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