July 1962 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1962 Algeria votes for independence
• 02 Jul 1962 Fidel Castro visits Moscow
• 03 Jul 1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains independence on July 5).
• 04 Jul 1962 Island Records begins
• 05 Jul 1962 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
• 06 Jul 1962 76th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Martin Mulligan (62 62 61)
• 07 Jul 1962 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
• 08 Jul 1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kelly Girls Golf Open
• 09 Jul 1962 The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States of America.
• 10 Jul 1962 32nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at D.C. Stadium, Washington
• 11 Jul 1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
• 12 Jul 1962 The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
• 13 Jul 1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
• 14 Jul 1962 Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
• 15 Jul 1962 Algeria becomes member of Arab League
• 17 Jul 1962 East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
• 18 Jul 1962 Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
• 19 Jul 1962 The First Annual Swiss amp Wielder Hoop and Stick Tournament is held.
• 20 Jul 1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 13th Symphony
• 21 Jul 1962 Battles on Chinese and Indies boundary
• 22 Jul 1962 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
• 23 Jul 1962 Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
• 25 Jul 1962 House passes bill requiring equal pay for equal work regardless of sex
• 26 Jul 1962 Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
• 27 Jul 1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
• 28 Jul 1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
• 30 Jul 1962 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
• 31 Jul 1962 Federation of Malaysia forms.

Famous Birthday

• Tom Cruise

  American actor, one of the "most beautiful people.

• Jordan Belfort

  Self-Help Author.

• Wesley Snipes

  American actor.

• Hunter Tylo

  American actress, the star of the TV soap "Beautiful," playing the role of Dot Taylor.

• Rochelle Redfield
• Thomas Gibson

  American actor.

• Cleo Rocos

  Brazilian born British star, a regular on The Kenny Everett Show in the '80s as "Miss Whiplash.

• Thierry Frémont

  French actor, who starred in the film "Fortune Express" (1991), selected at the 41st International Film Festival Berlin.

• Joan Osborne

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dead and Trigger Hippy).

• Philippe Vandel

  French journalist; a newspaper, radio and television reporter.

• Daisy d'Errata
• Serge Élissalde
• Licia Colò

  Italian TV hostess and journalist, who began her television career in 1982 as host or writer of several shows for RAI, Italian state...

• Eriq La Salle

  American actor director and producer.

• Nicolas Briançon
• Stéphane Taponier
• Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
• Giovanna Amati

  Italian race car driver.

• Steve Albini
• Dominique Quélen
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Famous Deaths

• Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington

  Novelist / biographer.

• Richard Adlington

  Writer, dies at 70.

• William [Harrison] Faulkner

  US writer (Nobel 1949), dies at 64.

• Louis A van Gasteren

  Dutch actor (Willem van Oranje), dies at 74.

• Jan M Romein

  Historian (Breaking of Two Ages).

• George MacAulay Trevelyan

  English royal historian, dies at 86.

• Myron McCormick

  Actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54.

• Archduke Joseph August of Austria

  Austrian field marshal (Born 1872).

• Roger Wolfe Kahn

  American band leader (Born 1907).

• Yehuda Leib Maimon

  Israeli rabbi and government minister (Born 1875).

• James H Kindelberger

  American aerospace pioneer (Born 1895).

• Georges Bataille

  French writer, essayist, philosopher, socialist and mystic, he was interested in sex, death, and power as topics of his reflection and...

• Rex Bell

  American district attorney (of Clark County, Las Vegas) and son of silent film legend Clara Bow and actor Rex Bell (born George Francis...

• Thibaudeau Rinfret

  Canadian lawyer and jurist 9th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1962).

• Richard Aldington

  English author and poet (d. 1962).

• Wilfrid Noyce

  English mountaineer and author (d. 1962).

• Victor Moore

  Comedian, dies of heart attack at 86.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
2. David Rose and His Orchestra - The Stripper
3. Bobby Vinton - Roses Are Red (My Love)
4. The Orlons - The Wah-Watusi
5. Freddy Cannon - Palisades Park

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
2. Frank Ifield - I Remember You
3. Joe Brown - A Picture Of You
4. Mike Sarne With Wendy Richard - Come Outside
5. Jimmie Rodgers - English Country Garden