September 1962 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1962 KATC TV channel 3 in Lafayette, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 02 Sep 1962 The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba.
• 03 Sep 1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
• 04 Sep 1962 Beatles record How Do You Do It at EMI
• 05 Sep 1962 Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II
• 08 Sep 1962 Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)
• 09 Sep 1962 76th US Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Darlene Hard (97 64)
• 10 Sep 1962 KLRN TV channel 9 in San Antonio, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 11 Sep 1962 Beatles cut Love Me Do andPS I Love You with Andy White on drums
• 15 Sep 1962 Bravo, Giovanni closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 performances
• 16 Sep 1962 Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8)
• 17 Sep 1962 Justice Department files 1st suit to end segregation in public schools
• 18 Sep 1962 Bob Aspromonte sets NL 3rd baseman record of 57 cons errorless games
• 19 Sep 1962 Atlantic College opens it doors for the first time, marking the birth of the pioneering UWC educational movement.
• 20 Sep 1962 Ben Bella wins 1st elections in independent Algeria
• 22 Sep 1962 Bob Dylan plays NYC Carnegie Hall
• 23 Sep 1962 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open
• 24 Sep 1962 KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 25 Sep 1962 Yankees clinch AL pennant
• 26 Sep 1962 LA Dodger Maury Wills becomes 1st to steal 100 bases (en route to 104)
• 27 Sep 1962 Military uprising under Col Abdullah as-Sallal North Yemen
• 28 Sep 1962 Brighter Day, last airs on CBS-TV daytime
• 29 Sep 1962 Alley Cat by Bent Fabric and His Piano peaks at #7
• 30 Sep 1962 JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi

Famous Birthday

• Melissa Sue Anderson
• Frank Rijkaard

  Surinam / Dutch soccer star (Ajax, AC Milan).

• Baton Rouge (Louisiana)
• Kalthoum Sarrai

  Tunisian-French psychologist and journalist (d. 2010).

• Ruud Gullit

  Dutch TV host and sportscaster on the news, giving the commentary of European Nations Cup Football.

• Dominique Farrugia

  French actor, writer, humorist and head of his own production company for French cable television.

• Reign of Terror (French Revolution)
• Frigide Barjot

  French humorist and right-catholic political activist.

• Nia Vardalos

  Movie Actress.

• Baz Luhrmann

  Australian film director.

• Sabine Paturel
• Rebecca Miller
• Thomas Kretschmann

  German-American actor.

• Juliette (singer)
• Jean-Félix Lalanne

  Famous French guitarist (Uruguayan mother), brother of pop singer Francis Lalanne.

• Rob Morrow

  American actor singer and director.

• Kevin Willis

  American basketball player and fashion designer.

• Laurent Fontaine

  French television host and producer.

• Paulo Portas

  Portuguese journalist and politician, co-founder of the newspaper O Independente in the 1980s.

• Luciana Rothberg
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Famous Deaths

• Charles Reisner

  American silent actor and film director (Born 1887).

• Karen Blixen-Finecke

  Baroness / writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77.

• Hermann Standiger

  German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84.

• Marcel Delannoy

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Saif al-Islam Achmad

  Monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71.

• Therese Neumann

  German stigma, dies at 64.

• Pogodin

  Writer.

• Pat Rooney

  Vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82.

• E E Cummings

  American poet (Born 1894).

• E[dward] e cummings

  US Poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies at 67.

• Patrick Corry

  developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx, New York.

• William Wilkerson

  American founder of the Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel and nightclub owner (Born 1890).

• Graham Walker

  British motorcycle racer (Born 1897).

• Hanns Eisler

  Composer (North Vietnam / East German National Anthem), dies at 64.

• Seiichiro Kashio

  Japanese tennis player (Born 1892).

• Kirsten Flagstad

  Norwegian singer (Born 1895).

• Eiji Yoshikawa

  Japanese novelist (Born 1892).

• Francisco Brochado da Rocha

  Prime Minister of Brazil (1962), dies at age 52.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tommy Roe - Sheila
2. The 4 Seasons - Sherry
3. Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
4. Ray Charles - You Don't Know Me
5. Nat King Cole - Ramblin' Rose

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Frank Ifield - I Remember You
2. The Tornados - Telstar
3. Elvis Presley - She's Not You
4. Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
5. Bobby Darin - Things