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What Happened In January 1962 In History

Historical Events for January, 1962

  • 1st » Samoa e.g Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
  • 1st » United States Navy SEALs established.
  • 3rd » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
  • 8th » The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
  • 10th » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
  • 11th » Cold War: While tied to its pier in Russian Shipyard Number 10 called Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
  • 11th » An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
  • 12th » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper (Vietnam) named Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
  • 26th » Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

Famous Birthdays on January in 1962

  • 1st » Anton Muscatelli, Italian conomist
  • 4th » Harlan Coben, American author
  • 4th » Laila Elwi, Egyptian actress
  • 4th » Michael France, American screenwriter (d. 2013)
  • 4th » Robin Guthrie, Scottish guitarist and producer (Cocteau Twins)
  • 4th » Joe Kleine, American basketball player
  • 4th » André Rouvoet, Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
  • 4th » Peter Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Type O Negative, Carnivore (band) known as Carnivore and Fallout (heavy metal band) named Fallout) (d. 2010)
  • 5th » Suzy Amis, American actress and model
  • 5th » Perry Fenwick, English actor
  • 5th » Danny Jackson, American baseball player
  • 5th » Andrew Rawnsley, English journalist
  • 6th » Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
  • 6th » Vangelis Vlachos, Greek footballer
  • 7th » Aleksandr Dugin, Russian sociologist
  • 7th » Hallie Todd, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
  • 8th » Chris Marion, American singer and keyboard player (Little River Band and Western Flyer)
  • 10th » Michael Fortier, Canadian lawyer and politician
  • 11th » Chris Bryant, Welsh politician, Minister of State for Europe
  • 11th » Kim Coles, American actress
  • 11th » Susan Lindauer, American journalist and activist
  • 12th » Joe Quesada, American author and illustrator
  • 12th » Luna Vachon, American-Canadian wrestler (d. 2010)
  • 13th » Trace Adkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
  • 13th » Paul Higgins, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 13th » Kevin Mitchell (baseball player) or Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player
  • 14th » Michael McCaul, American politician
  • 16th » Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian politician, 51st Minister for Defence (Australia) or Minister of Defence for Australia
  • 16th » John T. Riedl, American computer scientist (d. 2013)
  • 16th » Paul Webb, English bass player (Talk Talk and .O.rang)
  • 17th » Jun Azumi, Japanese politician
  • 17th » Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor and producer
  • 17th » Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author
  • 17th » Taija Rae, American porn actress
  • 17th » Ari Up, German-English singer (The Slits and New Age Steppers) (d. 2010)
  • 19th » Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
  • 19th » Chris Sabo, American baseball player
  • 19th » Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
  • 21st » Tyler Cowen, American economist and academic
  • 21st » Brian Hildebrand, American wrestler, referee, and manager (d. 1999)
  • 21st » Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
  • 22nd » Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
  • 22nd » Dajan Ahmet, Estonian actor (d. 2006)
  • 22nd » Sirous Ghayeghran, Iranian footballer (d. 1998)
  • 22nd » Jimmy Herring, American guitarist (Widespread Panic)
  • 22nd » Huw Irranca-Davies, Welsh politician
  • 22nd » Eric Schaeffer, American actor and director
  • 23rd » David Arnold, English composer
  • 23rd » Aivar Lillevere, Estonian footballer and coach
  • 23rd » Elvira Lindo, Spanish journalist
  • 23rd » Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor
  • 24th » Sly Bailey, English businesswoman
  • 24th » Argiris Kambouris, Greek basketball player
  • 25th » Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
  • 26th » Guo Jian, Chinese Australian artist
  • 26th » Oscar Ruggeri, Argentinian footballer
  • 27th » Roberto Paci Dalò, Italian director and composer
  • 28th » Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
  • 28th » Creflo Dollar, American pastor
  • 28th » Sam Phillips (musician) e.g Sam Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 29th » Nicholas Turturro, American actor
  • 30th » Abdullah II of Jordan
  • 31st » Sophie Muller, English director

Famous Deaths for January 1962

  • 3rd » Hermann Lux (footballer) named Hermann Lux, German footballer (b. 1893)
  • 4th » Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
  • 12th » Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869)
  • 13th » Ernie Kovacs, American actor (b. 1919)
  • 16th » Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
  • 16th » Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor, designed the Monument to the Unknown Hero and Pobednik (b. 1883)
  • 20th » Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)
  • 24th » André Lhote, French painter (b. 1885)
  • 24th » Stanley Lord, English captain (b. 1877)
  • 26th » Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)
  • 28th » Hermann Wlach, Austrian actor (b. 1884)
  • 29th » Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (b. 1875)
  • 30th » Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)

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