May 1962

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The following events occurred in May, 1962

May 1, 1962 (Tuesday)

• Norwich City F.C. wins the English Football League Cup, beating Rochdale F.C. in the final.
• The Dayton Hudson Corporation opens the first of its Target discount stores in Roseville, Minnesota.
• Billy Wright replaces George Swindin as manager of Arsenal F.C..
• Died: Sir Sydney Cockerell, 94, English curator and art collector

May 2, 1962 (Wednesday)

• An OAS bomb explodes in Algeria – this and other attacks kill 110 and injure 147.
• The USA's Operation Dominic I and II continue at Kiritimati (Christmas Island).
• Born: Elizabeth Berridge, American actress, in New Rochelle, New York; Jimmy "Whirlwind" White, English snooker player, in Tooting

May 3, 1962 (Thursday)

• Mikawashima train crash: 160 people are killed in a triple-train disaster near Tokyo, Japan.
• UK supermarket executive Alan Sainsbury is created a life peer.

May 4, 1962 (Friday)

• During the Carupanazo revolt against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft begin a 2-day attack on rebel positions at Carúpano.
• US President John F. Kennedy attends a Fire Power Demonstration at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

May 5, 1962 (Saturday)

• Twelve East Germans escape through a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
• Tottenham Hotspur F.C. retain the FA Cup with a 3-1 win over Burnley F.C. at Wembley Stadium. Goals are scored by Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Smith and Spurs captain Danny Blanchflower.

May 6, 1962 (Sunday)

• Antonio Segni is elected President of the Italian Republic.

May 7, 1962 (Monday)

• Opening of the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
• The USA's Operation Nougat nuclear testing programme continues with a blast at the Nevada Test Site.
• The single track Hooton to West Kirby branch of the Birkenhead Railway closes to all rail traffic.

May 8, 1962 (Tuesday)

• Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich replaces Mario Echandi Jiménez as President of Costa Rica.
• Brian Epstein visits the HMV (EMI) store at 363 Oxford Street, London, to have The Beatles' Decca audition tape transferred to 78rpm acetates.
• Died: Alfred Madsen, 74, Norwegian engineer, newspaper editor, trade unionist and politician

May 9, 1962 (Wednesday)

• Federico Fellini begins shooting the film 8½.
• Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium is confirmed by Bishop Fulton Sheen.
• Born: Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter, in North Weald, Essex

May 10, 1962 (Thursday)

• Oliver Franks, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, is made a life peer.
• Born: John Ngugi, Kenyan athlete, in Kigumo, Muranga District

May 11, 1962 (Friday)

• Radio Station Belarus begins broadcasting.
• Died: Hans Luther, 83, German politician, Chancellor of Germany 1925-1926

May 12, 1962 (Saturday)

• Archie Moore gives up his world light heavyweight boxing title to move up to heavyweight. His successor is Harold Johnson.
• Born: Emilio Estévez, American actor, to Martin and Janet Sheen, in Staten Island, New York

May 13, 1962 (Sunday)

• Born: Paul McDermott, Australlian comedian and television presenter, in Adelaide

May 14, 1962 (Monday)

• Juan Carlos of Spain marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.
• Milovan Djilas, former vice-president of Yugoslavia, is given a further sentence for publishing Conversations with Stalin.
• Died: Silpa Bhirasri, 69, Italian-born Thai sculptor
• Fulbert Virgilio Mingoa Fabella born on May 14, 1962, passed the licensure Real Estate Broker given by PRC licensure board examinations April 1, 2011

May 15, 1962 (Tuesday)

• American reconnaissance satellite FTV-1126 is launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base.
• Died: Michael Dillon, 47, English physician, the first female-to-male transsexual to undergo phalloplasty

May 16, 1962 (Wednesday)

• László Papp wins the European Boxing Union middleweight championsship.

May 17, 1962 (Thursday)

• José Águas makes his last international appearance for the Portugal national football team, against Belgium. Belgium win the match 1-2.
• Placido Domingo plays the role of Maurizio in Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur for the first time, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.
• Born: Arturo Peniche, Mexican telenovela actor, in Mexico City
• Died: E. Franklin Frazier, 67, American sociologist

May 18, 1962 (Friday)

• Born: Karel Roden, Czech actor, in České Budějovice

May 19, 1962 (Saturday)

• Marilyn Monroe makes her last significant public appearance, singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" at a birthday party for President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden.
• Typhoon Hope becomes the second typhoon of the season, peaking at 95 mph (153 km/h) winds on the following night.
• Died: Gabriele Münter, 85, German expressionist painter

May 20, 1962 (Sunday)

• The 1962 Dutch Grand Prix at Circuit Park Zandvoort opens the Formula One Championship season. It is won by Graham Hill. The non-championship 1962 Naples Grand Prix takes place on the same day at the Posillipo Circuit, and is won by Willy Mairesse.
• The Conseil national de la Résistance is founded in Rome.
• Born: Aleksandr Dedyushko, Belarussian television actor, at Vawkavysk, Hrodna Voblast (died 2007); Christiane F., German memoirist, as Vera Christiane Felscherinow, in Hamburg

May 21, 1962 (Monday)

• Born: Tina Landau, American playwright and theatre director, in New York City; Hege Storhaug, Norwegian journalist and activist

May 22, 1962 (Tuesday)

• Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes near Unionville, Missouri after the in-flight detonation of a bomb near the rear lavatory. All 45 passengers and crew aboard are killed.

May 23, 1962 (Wednesday)

• Drilling for the new Montreal subway commences.
• Raoul Salan, founder of the French terrorist Organisation armée secrète, is sentenced to life imprisonment in France.
• Ernst Krenek's opera, What Price Confidence?, is premièred at Saarbrücken, seventeen years after its composition.

May 24, 1962 (Thursday)

• Project Mercury: Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth 3 times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.

May 25, 1962 (Friday)

• The new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated.

May 26, 1962 (Saturday)

• Acker Bilk's "Stranger On The Shore" becomes the first British recording to reach number one in the US Billboard Hot 100.

May 27, 1962 (Sunday)

• Born: Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer, in Bombay
• Died: Egon Petri, 81, Dutch pianist

May 28, 1962 (Monday)

• The Soviet Union launches the Kosmos 5 scientific research and technology demonstration satellite, becoming the last satellite in the Kosmos programme to reach orbit successfully.
• Born: Monie Captan, Liberian politician; Mary Portas, English retail adviser, journalist and television presenter, in Rickmansworth
• Died: Assar Gabrielsson, 70, Swedish industrialist

May 29, 1962 (Tuesday)

• Negotiations between the OAS and the FLA lead to a real armistice in Algeria.

May 30, 1962 (Wednesday)

• The 1962 FIFA World Cup begins in Chile.
• Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is performed for the first time, in the arts festival held to celebrate the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral.
• Born: Timo Soini, Finnish politician, in Rauma
• Died: Pierre Gilliard, 85, Swiss academic, former tutor to the Russian royal family

May 31, 1962 (Thursday)

• The Northern Ireland general election produces a large majority for the Ulster Unionist Party, who win 34 out of 51 seats. The Nationalist Party gains 2 seats to give it a total of 9.
• Born: Sebastian Koch, German actor, in Karlsruhe
• Died: Adolf Eichmann, 56, German war criminal, executed in prison at Ramla, Israel