February 1962 calendar

February 1962
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in February 1962.
The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Macmillan (Conservative), Pope John XXIII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on February 1962: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of February 1962?

Events

01 Feb 1962 NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
03 Feb 1962 US President John Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs.
04 Feb 1962 Gay Life closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
05 Feb 1962 Law suit to bar Englewood, New Jersey, from "racial segregated" schools is filed.
06 Feb 1962 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
07 Feb 1962 Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational
08 Feb 1962 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
09 Feb 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
10 Feb 1962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel.
11 Feb 1962 Beatles record Please, Please Me
12 Feb 1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia, USA.
14 Feb 1962 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
15 Feb 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
16 Feb 1962 US Open Tennis: Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win.
17 Feb 1962 Storm in Hamburg, Germany, kills 265.
18 Feb 1962 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
19 Feb 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
20 Feb 1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
21 Feb 1962 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen, Netherlands.
22 Feb 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts.
23 Feb 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
24 Feb 1962 Sail Away closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
25 Feb 1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
26 Feb 1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation.
27 Feb 1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, first US killed of war.
28 Feb 1962 WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
08 Feb 1962 Nine protestors are killed at Charonne station, Paris, by French police under the command of ex-Vichy official and Parisian Prefect of Police Maurice Papon.[51]