Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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)
1962 was a common year ... the highest insurance value for a painting in history. ... Zoë Lund, American musician, model, actress, author, producer, ...
1962 – John Glenn orbits the Earth in Friendship 7, becoming the first American to do so; 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis, the closest nuclear confrontation involving the U.S. and USSR; 1962 – Baker v. Carr, enabling federal courts to intervene in and to decide reapportionment cases; 1962 – Engel v.
February 20: John Glenn, aboard the Friendship 7 space capsule, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. February 12 – As Commander-in-chief, Kennedy commutes the military death sentence of seaman Jimmie Henderson to life imprisonment, marking the last time in the 20th century that an American president was faced with such a decision (As of 28 July 2008, the most recent such decision ...
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [2] was a race riot that occurred at the University of Mississippi—commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American applicant James Meredith.
At the advanced level, American science, engineering, and medicine was world-famous. By the mid-1960s, the majority of American workers enjoyed the highest wage levels in the world, [51] and by the late-1960s, the great majority of Americans were richer than people in other countries, except Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada. Educational outlays ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The value of the Canadian dollar was put at a fixed exchange rate at 92.5 United States cents (USD 0.925) after having had a fluctuating value since September 30, 1950. The Canadian Exchange Fund would purchase U.S. dollars in order to keep the Canadian dollar from going more than one percent above 92 + 1 ⁄ 2 ¢ American, until May 30, 1970.