March 1962 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1962 K-Mart opens
• 02 Mar 1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
• 03 Mar 1962 British Antarctic Territory is formed.
• 04 Mar 1962 The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
• 05 Mar 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 06 Mar 1962 US promises Thailand assistance against communist aggression.
• 07 Mar 1962 Launch of OSO 1, first astronomy satellite (solar flare data).
• 08 Mar 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 09 Mar 1962 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians.
• 12 Mar 1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia.
• 13 Mar 1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty.
• 14 Mar 1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva, Switzerland, without France.
• 15 Mar 1962 No Strings opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 580 performances
• 16 Mar 1962 US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167.
• 18 Mar 1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch becomes member of Supreme Soviet of the USSR
• 19 Mar 1962 All American opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
• 20 Mar 1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world champion figure skater.
• 21 Mar 1962 Bekkers of Bosch makes TV speech in the Netherlands for birth control
• 22 Mar 1962 I Can Get It For You Wholesale opens at Shubert NYC for 300 performances
• 23 Mar 1962 JFK visits San Francisco
• 24 Mar 1962 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys
• 25 Mar 1962 Family Affair closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
• 26 Mar 1962 US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legislature.
• 27 Mar 1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy.
• 28 Mar 1962 Military coup in Syria, President Nazim al-Kudsi flees.
• 29 Mar 1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army.

Famous Birthday

• Jon Bon Jovi

  American musician, the superstar leader of "Bon Jovi.

• Marcia Cross

  American actress, primarily in TV evening soap-style series.

• Rosie O'Donnell

  American actress, comedienne and talk show host, immensely popular.

• Matthew Broderick

  Movie Actor.

• MC Hammer

  American rap musician.

• Terence Trent d'Arby
• Bruno Bellone

  Former French footballer playing for the national team as a left winger.

• Taylor Dayne

  Pop Singer.

• Simon Abkarian
• Stéphane Ostrowski
• Darryl Strawberry

  Baseball Player.

• Seiko Matsuda

  Japanese millionaire singing star and TV talent, married to a famous TV star with one daughter.

• Francesco Quinn
• Charles Reid
• Star Jones

  American attorney and TV personality, one-time co-host of the popular daytime TV talk show, "The View.

• Nicolas Poincaré
• Thomas Ian Griffith

  American actor.

• Clare Grogan

  Scottish actress seen in "Gregory's Girl" in early 1980.

• Meiway (musician)
• Jean-Marc Parent
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Famous Deaths

• Val Paul

  Producer (F-Man), dies at 73.

• Rezso Kokai

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Will Vesper

  German Author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79.

• John Owen Jones

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Andrew E Douglass

  Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings).

• Josephus RH van Schaik

  Lawyer / Vice Premier of the Netherlands, dies at 80.

• Aura Abranches

  Port actress (Lisboa, O Primo Basilio), dies at 65.

• Frank Orth

  Actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers), dies at 82.

• Charles Jean de la Vallee-Poussin

  Belgian mathematician (Born 1866).

• Walter W Bacon

  American politician (Born 1880).

• Cairine R Wilson

  first Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at age 77.

• Anne C Veth

  Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at age 82.

• Otakar Jeremias

  Composer, dies at 69.

• C Wright Mills

  US sociologist (Power Elite), dies at age 45.

• Auguste Piccard

  Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at age 78.

• Marjorie Colton

  inventor of wax paper, dies at age 64.

• George Mogridge

  Major League Baseball pitcher (Born 1889).

• Hugo Wast

  Argentine writer (Born 1883).

• Arthur Compton

  American physicist and joint winner, with C.T.

• Auguste Piccard

  Swiss scientist, inventor and physicist who, as a man of many talents, was the originator of an airtight, airborne gondola in which he...

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Duke Of Earl (Gene Chandler) - Duke Of Earl
2. Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby
3. Connie Francis - Don't Break The Heart That Loves You
4. Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen - Midnight In Moscow
5. Dion - The Wanderer

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love / Rock-A-Hula Baby
2. The Shadows - Wonderful Land
3. Roy Orbison - Dream Baby
4. Helen Shapiro - Tell Me What He Said
5. Del Shannon - Hey Little Girl