• Source: 1962 in the United States

      • Events from the year 1962 in the United States.


      Incumbents




      = Federal government

      =
      President: John F. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts)
      Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas)
      Chief Justice: Earl Warren (California)
      Speaker of the House of Representatives:
      vacant (until January 10)
      John William McCormack (D-Massachusetts) (starting January 10)
      Senate Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield (D-Montana)
      Congress: 87th


      Events




      = January

      =
      January 1
      The United States Navy SEALs are activated. SEAL Team One is commissioned in the Pacific Fleet and SEAL Team Two in the Atlantic Fleet.
      NBC introduces the "Laramie peacock" before a midnight showing of the series Laramie.
      January 2 – NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins praises U.S. President John F. Kennedy's "personal role" in advancing civil rights.
      January 4 – New York City introduces a subway train that operates without a crew on board.
      January 26 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon but later misses its target by 22,000 miles.
      January 30 – Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed, when their famous 7-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.


      = February

      =
      February 3 – The United States embargo against Cuba is announced.
      February 4 – Danny Thomas founds St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
      February 6 – Negotiations between U.S. Steel and the United States Department of Commerce begin.
      February 7 – The United States Government bans all U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports.
      February 10 – Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Berlin.
      February 14 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
      February 20 – Project Mercury: while aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.


      = March

      =
      March 1 – American Airlines Flight 1, an American Airlines Boeing 707, crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after its rudder separates from the tail, killing all 87 passengers and eight crew members aboard.
      March 2 – Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA basketball game.
      March 5–9 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962: One of the ten worst storms in the United States in the 20th century occurs, killing 40 people, injuring over 1,000, and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage in six states.
      March 21 – The Taco Bell fast food restaurant chain is founded by Glen Bell, in Downey, California.
      March 26 – Baker v. Carr: the U.S. Supreme Court rules that federal courts can order state legislatures to reapportion seats.


      = April

      =
      April 6 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks before a concert featuring Glenn Gould with the New York Philharmonic.
      April 9 – The 34th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Bob Hope, is held at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' West Side Story wins ten awards, including Best Motion Picture and a joint Best Director win for Wise and Robbins. The film is tied for the most nominations with Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg; both receive 11.
      April 10 – In Los Angeles, California, the first MLB game is played at Dodger Stadium.
      April 14 – A Cuban military tribunal convicts 1,179 Bay of Pigs attackers.
      April 16 – 20-year-old Bob Dylan premieres his song "Blowin' in the Wind", at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village (New York City).
      April 21 – The Century 21 Exposition World's Fair opens in Seattle, Washington, opening the Space Needle to the public for the first time.


      = May

      =
      May – Larry Allen Abshier becomes the first of six (possibly seven) American defectors to North Korea.
      May 1 – Dayton Hudson Corporation opens the first of its Target discount stores in Roseville, Minnesota.
      May 24 – Project Mercury: Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth 3 times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
      May 25 – The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the U.S., goes out of business.
      May 27 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in Pennsylvania.


      = June

      =
      June 3 – Air France Flight 007, Boeing 707 Chateau de Sully on a charter flight carrying cultural and civic leaders of Atlanta, Georgia, overruns the runway at Orly Airport in Paris; 130 of 132 passengers are killed.
      June 6 – President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
      June 11 – President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at Yale University.
      June 15 – Port Huron Statement completed.
      June 25 – United States Supreme Court rulings:
      Engel v. Vitale: the court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.
      MANual Enterprises v. Day: the court rules that photographs of nude men are not obscene, decriminalizing nude male pornographic magazines.
      June 28 – The United Lutheran Church in America, the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church merge to form the Lutheran Church in America.


      = July

      =
      July 2 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
      July 10 – AT&T's Telstar, the world's first commercial communications satellite, is launched into orbit and activated the next day.
      July 17
      Nuclear testing: the "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
      Robert M. White flies the X-15 to an altitude of 314,750 feet (59 miles, 96 km) to qualify him for USAF Astronaut Wings becoming the first "winged" astronaut and one of a few who have flown into space without a conventional spacecraft.
      July 22 – Mariner program: the Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
      July 23 – Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to be inducted into the Baseball Museum And Hall Of Fame.


      = August

      =
      August 5 – Marilyn Monroe is found dead at age 36 from "acute barbiturate poisoning".
      August 15 – The New York Agreement is signed trading the West New Guinea colony to Indonesia.
      August 27 – NASA launches the Mariner 2 space probe.


      = September

      =
      September 12
      President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University featuring the words "We choose to go to the Moon", reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
      The first Kohl's department store opens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
      September 22 – Bob Dylan premieres his song "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
      September 23 – Animated sitcom The Jetsons premieres on ABC.
      September 25 – Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson two minutes into the first round of his fight for the boxing world title at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
      September 29 – The Canadian Alouette 1, the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union, is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
      September 30 – CBS broadcasts the final episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, marking the end of the Golden Age of Radio.


      = October

      =

      October 1
      The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the university of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals.
      Johnny Carson takes over as permanent host of NBC's The Tonight Show, a post he will hold for 30 years.
      Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance return to TV with The Lucy Show, two years after the end of I Love Lucy (Vance is the first person to portray a divorcée on a weekly series).
      October 12
      Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship Incorporated is founded at Morgan State College.
      The infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph (270 km/h); 46 are killed, 11 billion board feet (26 million m3) of timber is blown down, with $230 million U.S. in damages.
      Jazz bassist/composer Charles Mingus presents a disastrous concert at Town Hall in New York City. It will gain a reputation as the worst moment of his career.
      October 13 – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway.
      October 14 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins: a U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. A stand-off then ensues the next day between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with nuclear war.
      October 16 – The New York Yankees defeat the San Francisco Giants 1–0 in Game 7 of the 1962 World Series.
      October 22 – In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces to the nation the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
      October 27 – The British revue play Beyond the Fringe makes its Broadway debut.
      October 28 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look like the Soviets have backed down.


      = November

      =
      November 7 – Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more".
      November 17 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport.
      November 20 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends: in response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.


      = December

      =
      December 2 – Vietnam War: after a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a non-optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
      December 8 – The 1962 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers; it lasts for 114 days.
      December 9 – Petrified Forest National Park is established.
      December 14 – U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 flies by Venus, becoming the first probe to successfully transmit data from another planet.
      December 24 – Cuba releases the last 1,113 participants in the Bay of Pigs Invasion to the U.S., in exchange for food worth $53 million.
      December 30 – An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to miss a publication date for the first and only time in its history.


      = Undated

      =
      American advertising man Martin K. Speckter invents the interrobang, a new English-language punctuation mark.
      La Grenouille French restaurant opens in midtown Manhattan.
      Publication of Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl.


      = Ongoing

      =
      Cold War (1947–1991)
      Space Race (1957–1975)


      Births


      January 4 – Peter Steele, singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2010)
      January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron, actress and model
      January 6
      Michael Houser, singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)
      Kevin Rosier, mixed martial artist and boxer (died 2015)
      January 7 – Hallie Todd, actress, producer, and screenwriter
      January 12 – Luna Vachon, American-Canadian professional wrestler (died 2010)
      January 14 – Michael McCaul, lawyer and politician
      January 17 – Denis O'Hare, actor
      January 18 – Mike Lynch, cartoonist
      January 19 – Cynthia Coffman, convicted murderer
      January 21 – Brian Hildebrand, wrestler, referee and manager (died 1999)
      January 24 – Stephen Gould, opera singer (died 2023)
      January 25 – Christopher Coppola, film director and producer
      January 26
      Malcom Gregory Scott, writer, activist, and AIDS survivor
      Anna LaCazio, singer (Cock Robin)
      January 28 – Creflo Dollar, evangelist
      January 30 – Mary Kay Letourneau, child rapist (died 2020)
      January 31 – David Oliver, actor (died 1992)
      February 2 – Michael T. Weiss, actor
      February 4
      Clint Black, country musician, record producer, and actor
      Jim O'Heir, actor and comedian
      February 6 – Axl Rose, rock singer
      February 7
      Garth Brooks, country singer-songwriter
      David Bryan, rock musician (Bon Jovi)
      February 10 – Lisa Blunt Rochester, politician
      February 11
      Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 2013
      Sheryl Crow, musician and singer
      February 22 – Lenda Murray, bodybuilder
      February 23 – Frank Luntz, political consultant
      March 2 – Jon Bon Jovi, American musician
      March 3
      Jackie Joyner-Kersee, athlete
      Herschel Walker, American football player
      March 7
      James Barnes, murderer (died 2023)
      Cathy Wood, serial killer
      March 10
      Jasmine Guy, actress, director, singer and dancer
      Dan O'Shannon, television writer and producer
      March 11
      Jeffrey Nordling, actor
      Barbara Alyn Woods, actress
      March 12 – Titus Welliver, actor
      March 15 – Jimmy Baio, actor
      March 18
      Thomas Ian Griffith, actor
      Mike Rowe, television personality and presenter
      March 21
      Matthew Broderick, actor
      Rosie O'Donnell, comedian
      March 24 – Star Jones, TV personality
      March 26
      Chris Bailey, animator and film director
      John Stockton, basketball player
      Keith Diamond, actor and voice actor
      March 30
      Mark Begich, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 2009 to 2015
      MC Hammer, rapper
      Bil Dwyer, stand-up comedian and game show host
      March 31 – Stockton Rush, engineer, pilot, and businessman (died 2023)
      April 2 – Clark Gregg, actor, director, and screenwriter
      April 3 – Mike Ness, musician
      April 4 – Melissa Hart (politician), lawyer and politician
      April 6 – Steven Levitan, director, writer and producer
      April 7 – Hugh O'Connor, actor, son of Carroll O'Connor (died 1995)
      April 8 – Izzy Stradlin, guitarist
      April 10
      Rick Florian, Christian musician and real estate agent
      Steve Tasker, American football player
      April 14 – Laura Richardson, politician
      April 15 – Tom Kane, voice actor
      April 16
      Antony Blinken, 71st secretary of state
      Douglas Elmendorf, economist and politician
      Ian MacKaye, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
      Jason Scheff, bassist
      April 17 – Bill Kopp, actor, voice actor and animator
      April 20
      Scott McGehee, film director and screenwriter
      Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.), comedian (died 2001)
      April 21
      Craig Robinson, college basketball coach
      Carmen Osbahr, American-Mexican muppeteer
      April 26
      Michael Damian, actor, recording artist and producer
      Debra Wilson, actress and comedian
      April 28 – Scott La Rock, hip-hop DJ and producer (died 1987)
      April 30 – Tom Fahn, voice actor
      May 2 – Elizabeth Berridge, actress
      May 5 – Robby Robbins, politician
      May 7 – Robbie Knievel, motorcyclist and daredevil performer (died 2023)
      May 12 – Emilio Estevez, actor, director, and writer
      May 22 – Brian Pillman, pro wrestler (died 1997)
      May 25 – Lionel James, American football player (died 2022)
      May 28 – James Michael Tyler, actor (died 2021)
      June 1 – Sherri Howard, Olympic athlete
      June 3 – David Cole, DJ, producer and songwriter (died 1995)
      June 4 – Pam Shriver, tennis player
      June 5 – Jeff Garlin, comedian and actor
      June 7
      Cecil Exum, basketball player (died 2023)
      Lance Reddick, actor (died 2023)
      June 12 – Jodi Thelen, actress
      June 13
      Ally Sheedy, actress
      Hannah Storm, television anchor and presenter
      June 19 – Paula Abdul, musician and judge on American Idol
      June 23
      Mark DeCarlo, actor
      Billy Wirth, actor, film producer and artist
      June 24
      Sean Vincent Gillis, serial killer
      Andrew P. Gordon, judge
      June 25 – Anthony Allen Shore, serial killer and child molester (died 2018)
      June 28 – Don Chambers, newspaper comic strip artist
      June 29 – Michael J. Juneau, jurist (died 2023)
      June 30 – Deirdre Lovejoy, actress
      July 1 – Andre Braugher, actor (died 2023)
      July 2 – Doug Benson, comedian, marijuana rights advocate, television host and actor
      July 3
      Tom Cruise, actor and film producer
      Thomas Gibson, actor
      Hunter Tylo, actress and author, previously model
      July 4 – Pam Shriver, tennis player
      July 5 – Jeff Innis, baseball player (died 2022)
      July 7
      Tom Conroy, state legislator
      MC Jazzy Jeff, rapper
      July 12 – Dan Murphy, rock guitarist
      July 13 – Tom Kenny, actor and comedian
      July 14 – Jeff Olson, percussionist (Trouble)
      July 15 – Glen Edward Rogers, serial killer
      July 17 – Fred Wadsworth, professional golfer
      July 18
      Lee Arenberg, actor
      Jack Irons, drummer
      July 20 – Carlos Alazraqui, actor
      July 22 – Steve Albini, musician and music producer (died 2024)
      July 31 – Kevin Greene, footballer (died 2020)
      August 4
      Roger Clemens, baseball player
      Jim Hagedorn, politician (died 2022)
      August 8 – Jim Sweeney, footballer (died 2022)
      August 10 – Suzanne Collins, author and television writer
      August 16 – Steve Carell, comedian, actor, voice artist, producer, writer and director
      August 17 – John Marshall Jones, actor
      August 24 – Major Garrett, journalist and author
      August 25 – Tommy Blacha, comedy writer
      August 26 – Bob Mionske, cyclist and attorney
      August 28
      Craig Anton, actor and comedian
      David Fincher, director and producer
      August 31 – Dee Bradley Baker, voice actor
      September 5 – Brian A. Joyce, politician (died 2018)
      September 6 – Chris Christie, 55th Governor of New Jersey
      September 9 – Mark Linkous, singer, songwriter and musician (died 2010)
      September 11 – Kristy McNichol, actress and singer
      September 12 – Amy Yasbeck, actress
      September 14 – Tom Kurvers, ice hockey player (died 2021)
      September 15
      Dina Lohan, television personality
      Rebecca Miller, actress and director
      September 17 – Don Rogers, American football player (died 1986)
      September 26
      Gregory Crewdson, photographer
      Al Pitrelli, guitarist
      October 1 – Esai Morales, actor
      October 6 – Rich Yett, baseball player
      October 11
      Joan Cusack, actress and comedian
      Leslie Landon, actress
      October 12
      Chris Botti, trumpeter and composer
      Deborah Foreman, actress
      October 13
      T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, actress and comedian
      Kelly Preston, actress..
      October 15 – Aron Ra, author, podcaster and atheist activist
      October 21 – Drew Griffin, journalist (died 2022)
      October 23
      Doug Flutie, American football player
      Mike Tomczak, American football player
      October 24
      Dave Blaney, race car driver
      Mark Miller, motorcycle racer
      Jay Novacek, American football player and coach
      November 3 – Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve
      November 10 – David Petrarca, television, film and theatre director, producer
      November 11 – Demi Moore, actress, film producer, film director, songwriter and model
      November 15
      Mark Acres, basketball player and educator
      Judy Gold, comedian, actress and producer
      November 18 – Kirk Hammett, metal guitarist (Exodus and Metallica)
      November 19
      Jodie Foster, actress, film director and producer
      Sean Parnell, 10th Governor of Alaska
      November 20 – Gail Ann Dorsey, musician
      November 27 – Conrad Anker, mountaineer
      November 28 – Jon Stewart, comedian and political commentator
      December 9 – Felicity Huffman, actress
      December 12 – Peter Bergen, journalist and author
      December 17 – Richard Jewell, victim of defamation
      December 21 – Steven Mnuchin, 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury
      December 24 – Kate Spade, born Katherine Brosnahan, fashion designer (died 2018)
      December 31
      Don Diamont, actor
      Jeff Flake, politician
      Lance Reddick, actor


      Deaths


      January 9 – Leroy Shield, film score and radio compose (born 1893)
      January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, comedian and actor (born 1919)
      January 19 – Snub Pollard, actor (born 1889 in Australia)
      January 20 – Robinson Jeffers, poet (born 1887)
      January 25 – Lucy Robins Lang, political activist (born 1884 in Russia)
      January 26 – Lucky Luciano, gangster (born 1897 in Italy)
      January 29 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-born American violinist and compose (born 1875 in Austria-Hungary)
      February 1 – Carey Wilson, screenwriter (born 1889)
      February 6 – Roy Atwell, actor, comedian and composer (born 1878)
      February 17 – Joseph Kearns, actor (born 1907)
      February 19
      James Barton, actor (born 1890)
      Georgios Papanikolaou, cytopathologist, inventor of the Pap smear (born 1883 in Greece)
      February 27 – Willie Best, actor (born 1916)
      February 28 – Chic Johnson, actor (born 1891)
      March 1
      Roscoe Ates, actor (b. 1895)
      Arnold Kirkeby, hotelier, art collector, and real estate developer (b. 1901)
      March 15 – Arthur Compton, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 (born 1892)
      March 27 – Augusta Savage, African American sculptor (born 1892)
      April 8 – Esther Kerr Rusthoi, author, poet, composer, singer, and evangelist (born 1909)
      April 10
      Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American director (born 1886 in Austria-Hungary)
      Manton S. Eddy, general (born 1892)
      April 15 – Clara Blandick (born 1876)
      April 20 – Grover Whalen, politician (born 1886)
      April 24 – Milt Franklyn, film composer (born 1897)
      April 27 – Wendell Holmes, actor (born 1914)
      May – Helen Tufts Bailie, social reformer and activist (born 1874)
      May 12 – Dick Calkins, comic book writer (Buck Rogers) (born 1894)
      May 28 – Robert Francis Anthony Studds, admiral and engineer, fourth Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (born 1896)
      May 31 – Henry F. Ashurst, politician (born 1874)
      June 6 – Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, actor (born 1899)
      June 9 – Polly Adler, brothel owner (born 1900 in Russia)
      June 19
      Frank Borzage, film director and actor (born 1894)
      Will Wright, actor (born 1894)
      July 2 – Valeska Suratt, stage actress and silent film star (born 1882)
      July 6 – William Faulkner, fiction writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 (born 1897)
      July 25 – Nelle Wilson Reagan, mother of United States President Ronald Reagan (born 1883)
      August 5 – Marilyn Monroe, film actress and icon (born 1926)
      August 23 – Hoot Gibson, actor (born 1892)
      August 28 – John Collum, child actor (born 1926)
      September 2 – Morris Louis, painter (born 1912)
      September 3 – E. E. Cummings, poet (born 1894)
      September 7 – Louis King, film director (born 1898)
      September 19 – Ben J. Tarbutton, interpreter (born 1885)
      September 24
      Sam McDaniel, actor (born 1886)
      Charles Reisner, silent film actor and director (born 1887)
      October 2 – Frank Lovejoy, actor (born 1912)
      October 6 – Tod Browning, film director, actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and entertainer (born 1880)
      October 7 – Scrapper Blackwell, blues guitarist and singer (born 1903)
      October 26 – Louise Beavers, actress (born 1900)
      November 7 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (born 1884)
      November 8
      William Bailey, actor (born 1886)
      Willis H. O'Brien, stop motion animator (born 1886)
      November 9 – Carroll McComas, actress (born 1886)
      November 18 – Dennis Chávez, U.S. Senator from New Mexico from 1935 to 1962 (born 1888)
      December 4 – Jens Christian Bay, writer and librarian (born 1871 in Denmark)
      December 7 – Bobo Newsom, baseball player (born 1907)
      December 10 – Robert C. Giffen, admiral (born 1886)
      December 15 – Charles Laughton, British-American actor (born 1899 in the United Kingdom)
      December 17 – Thomas Mitchell, Irish-American actor and writer (born 1892)
      December 22 – Roy Palmer, jazz trombonist (born 1892)
      December 31 – Al Mamaux, baseball player and manager (born 1894)


      See also



      List of American films of 1962
      Timeline of United States history (1950–1969)


      References




      External links


      Media related to 1962 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons

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