October 1962 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
• 02 Oct 1962 San Francisco and Los Angeles play a 4-hour, 18-minute nine-inning game.
• 03 Oct 1962 Stop the World, I Want to Get Off opens at Shubert NYC for 886 performances
• 04 Oct 1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m
• 05 Oct 1962 Beatles release their first single record "Love Me Do".
• 06 Oct 1962 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
• 07 Oct 1962 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
• 08 Oct 1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of the United Nations.
• 09 Oct 1962 Battles to decide Algeria-Morocco boundary kills 130
• 10 Oct 1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
• 11 Oct 1962 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
• 12 Oct 1962 US / USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology
• 13 Oct 1962 At the Riverside International Raceway in California, the Los Angeles Times Three-Hour Invitational Grand Prix race is held. 1963 model production Corvettes make their racing debut, as does the Ford-powered Cobra. Finishing 1st overall is the Mickey Thompson #119 black Corvette Z06, driven by Doug Hooper. He averages 84-mph over the 250-mile course. The 260-ci Cobra leads by about one mile after one hour of racing when its rear suspension fails.
• 14 Oct 1962 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Thunderbird Tourney Golf Tournament
• 15 Oct 1962 WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 16 Oct 1962 Byron R White becomes a Supreme Court Justice
• 17 Oct 1962 Yanks beat Giants for 20th world championship
• 18 Oct 1962 JFK meets Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko
• 19 Oct 1962 Stalin-monument removed in Prague
• 20 Oct 1962 Mr President opens at St. James Theater NYC for 265 performances
• 21 Oct 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Carlsbad Cavern Golf Open
• 22 Oct 1962 JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
• 23 Oct 1962 Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis
• 24 Oct 1962 In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins
• 25 Oct 1962 1st Belgian nuclear reactor begins operation
• 26 Oct 1962 Beatles tape Please Please Me andAsk Me Why
• 27 Oct 1962 Beyond the Fringe opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances
• 28 Oct 1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
• 31 Oct 1962 The UN General Assembly asks the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), but the constitution comes into effect on November 1.

Famous Birthday

• Arnaud Montebourg

  French socialist minister (industrial Renewal) he was dismissed by President François Hollande, in agreement with Prime Minister Manuel...

• Tommy Lee

  Drummer.

• Flea (musician)
• Kelly Preston

  Movie Actress.

• Arsène Jiroyan
• Jorge Burruchaga

  Argentinian footballer and manager.

• Sophie Duez

  French actress, who made her film debut in "Marche à l'ombre" (1984), directed by Michel Blanc.

• Joan Cusack

  American actress and comedienne, nominated twice for Best Supporting Actress Oscar, a "Saturday Night Live" regular from 1985-1986, who has...

• Evander Holyfield

  Boxer.

• Guy Georges

  French homicide perpetrator, a serial killer in Paris who was given the moniker "The Beast of the Bastille.

• Mahamandaleshwar Swami Nityanand
• Cary Elwes

  British actor.

• Valérie Vogt
• Dmitri Hvorostovsky

  Russian opera singer.

• Bebi Dol
• Mike Judge

  American cartoonist, filmmaker and voice actor.

• Daphne Zuniga

  San Francisco, California -- Actress (Jo Reynolds-Melrose Place, Spaceballs).

• Lorenza Pavarotti
• David Furnish
• Michèle Tabarot
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Famous Deaths

• Tod Browning

  American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1962).

• Enrico Mattei

  Italian industrialist who was one of the most powerful oil men in the world.

• Fatso Marco

  Comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56.

• Rudolph Anderson

  U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba.

• Pierre Froidebise

  Composer, dies at 48.

• Naphtali Siegfried Salomon

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Frank Lovejoy

  Actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48.

• Boris Y Bukreev

  Russian mathematician (Born 1859).

• Lulu McConnell

  comediene (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at age 80.

• Solomon Linda

  South African singer and composer (Born 1909).

• Rudolf Anderson

  American pilot and officer (Born 1927).

• Gaston Bachelard

  French philosopher who influenced the work of intellectuals in the history of science, psychoanalysis, epistemology and the New Criticism.

• Hattie McDaniel

  Actress (Gone With the Wind), dies at 67.

• Natalia Goncharova

  Russian painter costume designer and illustrator (d. 1962).

• Milan Vidmar

  Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (Born 1885).

• John Lowry

  Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79.

• Louise Beavers

  American actress and singer (d. 1962).

• Mauritius Dekker [Boris Robazki]

  Writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The 4 Seasons - Sherry
2. Bobby (Boris) Pickett - Monster Mash
3. The Crystals - He's A Rebel
4. Nat King Cole - Ramblin' Rose
5. The Contours - Do You Love Me

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Tornados - Telstar
2. Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
3. Tommy Roe - Sheila
4. Carole King - It Might As Well Rain Until September
5. Elvis Presley - She's Not You