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Month January 1962 Calendar

About Month of January Calendar

  • January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as the day of New Year. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer).

    January symbols: The birthstone of January is the garnet which represents constancy. Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus. In Finnish, the month of tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name literally means Oak moon. The zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards). The traditional English birth month flower is the Carnation.

Historical Events for January, 1962

  • Day of Week 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.
  • Day of Week 3rd » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
  • Day of Week 8th » The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
  • Day of Week 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.
  • Day of Week 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.
  • Day of Week 12th » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper (Vietnam) named Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
  • Day of Week 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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