August 1962 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1962 Failed assassination on President Nkrumah of Ghana
• 03 Aug 1962 29th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 42, All-Stars 20 (65,000)
• 04 Aug 1962 Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
• 05 Aug 1962 1st quasar located by radio
• 06 Aug 1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
• 10 Aug 1962 Marvel Comics publishes Amazing Fantasy#15, which features the first published appearance of the superhero character of Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
• 11 Aug 1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
• 12 Aug 1962 1st time 2 people in space
• 13 Aug 1962 Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (FSL) pitches ambidextrously
• 14 Aug 1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m
• 15 Aug 1962 Netherlands and Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
• 16 Aug 1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
• 17 Aug 1962 E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector
• 18 Aug 1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their first hit "If I Had a Hammer".
• 19 Aug 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
• 21 Aug 1962 Verne Gagne beats Mister M (doctor X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
• 22 Aug 1962 The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage.
• 23 Aug 1962 1st Europe-US live TV program
• 24 Aug 1962 Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
• 26 Aug 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Salt Lake City Golf Open
• 27 Aug 1962 Mariner 2 launched; first probe to fly by Venus.
• 28 Aug 1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
• 29 Aug 1962 Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
• 30 Aug 1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
• 31 Aug 1962 Trinidad and Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)

Famous Birthday

• Manuel Valls

  French politician, born to Xavier Valls, catalan painter.

• Steve Carell

  American actor and writer, Carell is considered one of comedy’s emerging talents.

• Marc Lavoine

  French singer and actor.

• Tariq Ramadan
• James Marsters

  American actor.

• David Fincher

  American music video and film director.

• Valérie Kaprisky

  French actress, of Polish ancestry on her mother's side, and of Turkish and Argentine descent on her father's side.

• Michelle Yeoh

  Malaysian-Hong Kong actress and producer.

• Alain Robert (Spider-Man)
• Isabel Otero
• Cairo (Egypt)
• Bruno Pelletier

  Canadian singer and actor.

• Emmanuel Chain

  French journalist and television presenter, who hosted the "Capital" business program on channel M6 from 1988 to 2003.

• Kimberly Conrad
• Miss Cleo (psychic)
• Roger Clemens

  American baseball player: star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox who drafted him in 1983.

• John Slattery

  American actor and director, best known for his role as Roger Sterling on AMC's series Mad Men.

• Sophie Fontanel
• Jesse Garon
• Mac Lesggy
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Famous Deaths

• Marilyn Monroe

  American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during...

• Hoot Gibson

  Silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70.

• Morris Louis

  US Painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49.

• Carlos Lavin

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Cleo Ridgely

  Silent screen actress (I Remember Mama), dies at 68.

• Lei Feng

  Chinese revolutionary (Born 1940).

• Peter Fechter

  East German defector (Born 1944).

• Leon Kruczkowski

  Polish Author (Niemcy), dies at 62.

• Walter Anderson

  Belarusian-German ethnologist and academic (d. 1962).

• Ted Husing

  NYC, New York -- Sportscaster (Monday Night Fights).

• Irving Fine

  Boston, Massachusetts -- Composer (Toccata).

• Hermann Hesse

  German writer whose popularity extended well beyond his lifetime.

• Kerstin Hesselgren

  1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90.

• Henry George Ley

  Composer, dies at 74.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bobby Vinton - Roses Are Red (My Love)
2. Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
3. Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
4. Tommy Roe - Sheila
5. Brian Hyland - Sealed With A Kiss

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Frank Ifield - I Remember You
2. Pat Boone - Speedy Gonzales
3. Elvis Presley - She's Not You
4. Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
5. Bobby Darin - Things