June 1962 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1962 Oscar 2 (ham radio satellite) launched into Earth orbit.
• 02 Jun 1962 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson
• 03 Jun 1962 Betsy Rawls and Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
• 04 Jun 1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
• 06 Jun 1962 Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record Besame Mucho with Peter Best on drums
• 07 Jun 1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
• 08 Jun 1962 Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
• 09 Jun 1962 Bill of Hare, premieres in USA
• 10 Jun 1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament
• 11 Jun 1962 President FDR accepted an honorary degree from Yale
• 12 Jun 1962 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
• 13 Jun 1962 Bob Newhart Show, last airs on NBC-TV
• 14 Jun 1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris : later becoming the European Space Agency.
• 15 Jun 1962 WWUP TV channel 10 in Sault Ste Marie, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 16 Jun 1962 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
• 17 Jun 1962 62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont Country Club - Pennsylvania
• 21 Jun 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
• 22 Jun 1962 1st test flight of Hoovercraft
• 23 Jun 1962 Subways Are after Sleeping closes at St. James NYC after 205 performances
• 24 Jun 1962 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
• 25 Jun 1962 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
• 26 Jun 1962 Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo, Illinois
• 27 Jun 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 km/h, 37,700 m
• 28 Jun 1962 Thalidomide drug banned in the Netherlands
• 29 Jun 1962 Frank Howard, hits the 5,000th Dodger home run
• 30 Jun 1962 French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria

Famous Birthday

• Paula Abdul

  American singer with Syrian-Brazilian-French-Canadian ancestry.

• Lio

  Belgian singer and actress who was a pop icon in France and Belgium during the 1980s.

• Frédéric Lenoir

  French writer, philosopher and essayist, born to René Lenoir, politician.

• Gina Gershon

  American actress singer and producer.

• Nick Rhodes

  English musician, best known as the founding member and keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran.

• Ally Sheedy

  American actress and dancer with a film debut in "Bad Boys" in 1983.

• Princess Astrid of Belgium Archduchess of Austria-Este
• Tony Leung Chiu Wai

  Hong Kong actor.

• Arnold Vosloo

  South African-American actor.

• Amanda Donohoe

  London, England -- Actress (CJ Lamb-LA Law).

• Stephen Chow

  Hong Kong actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Carl Cox
• Jeff Garlin

  American comedian.

• Denis Baupin

  French politician, the Deputy Mayor of the City of Paris, where, as an elected member of the city council, he represents Europe Écologie–The...

• Ismaël Ferroukhi
• Thierry Hazard

  French singer and songwriter.

• Jean-Luc Nélias

  French sailor, a professional skipper who has won several races including Tour de France à la voile (1999), Tour de Bretagne (1999),...

• Billy Wirth
• Guy Lecluyse
• Trinidad Jiménez
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Famous Deaths

• Yves Klein

  French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art.

• Frank Borzage

  United States -- Director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69.

• Volkmar Andreae

  Swiss conductor / Composer (Bruckner), dies at 82.

• Ephraim Lisitsky

  Hebrew poet.

• Caspar Neher

  German set designer / librettist, dies at 65.

• Franc S Finzgar

  Slovic writer (Service Girls).

• V Sackville-West

  Writer, dies at 70.

• Lucile Watson

  Actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian), dies at 83.

• Anna Sleasers

  is first Boston Strangler victim.

• Alfred Cortot

  Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor.

• Mickey Cochrane

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1962).

• Paul Viiding

  Estonian author poet and critic (d. 1962).

• Eugene Goossens

  English conductor and composer (d. 1962).

• John Ireland

  English composer and educator (d. 1962).

• Clem McCarthy

  American sportscaster (Born 1882).

• Cy Morgan

  American baseball player (Born 1878).

• William Beebe

  US biologist / explorer, dies at 84.

• Guinn Williams

  Actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63.

• Henry Kendall

  American physicist photographer and mountaineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999).

• John N Ireland

  English Composer / pianist (Epic March), dies at 82.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
2. Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore
3. David Rose and His Orchestra - The Stripper
4. The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
5. Dion - Lovers Who Wander

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm
2. Ray Charles - I Can't Stop Loving You
3. Cliff Richard - Do You Want To Dance / I'm Looking Out The Window
4. Frank Ifield - I Remember You
5. Mike Sarne With Wendy Richard - Come Outside