Saturday 27 October 1962
It was Saturday, under the sign of Scorpio. The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democratic).
In that special week of October people in US were listening to Monster Mash by Bobby (Boris) Pickett.
In UK Telstar by The Tornados was in the top 5 hits.
Gypsy, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1962
while O Ye Jigs & Juleps! by Virginia Cary Hudson was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching The Scales of Justice.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Spacewar! or Spacewar!.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
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Historical Events
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Holidays:
- St. Namatius
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Independence Day (from Britain, 1979)
- Turkmenistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
- St. Desiderius
- R.C. saints - October 27th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: St. Abraham the Poor
- St. Vincent, Sabina, & Christeta
- St. Capitolina
- St. Odhran
- St. Elesbaan
- St. Florentius
- St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia.
- St. Gaudiosus
- St. Abban of Murnevin
Famous Birthdays:
See famous people born on 27 OctoberFamous Deaths:
- Enrico Mattei: Italian industrialist who was one of the most powerful oil men in the world.
- Fatso Marco: Comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56.
- Rudolph Anderson: U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba.
- Rudolf Anderson: American pilot and officer (Born 1927).
Facts:
- Beyond the Fringe opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances
- Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
- Soviet Union leasder Nikita Khrushchev publicly calls for the dismantling of U.S. missile bases in Turkey. US President Kennedy agrees to remove the sites at a later date.
- Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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Magazine Covers
What news were making the headlines those days in October 1962?
- Life: Marvel of motion The human body
- Time: TIME Magazine Cover: John M. Kemper -- Oct. 26, 1962
- SportsIllustrated: Sports Illustrated: no.7791
Books
Which were the most popular books released in the last weeks ?
The Guns Of August
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeThe Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara
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Portrait In Brownstone
hard cover no dust jacket, pencil mark in front cover, pages are perfect, bent corners, looks very new.
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Videogames
What videogames would you be playing back in the days ?
Spacewar!