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2 апреля 1962 года: Неру в четвертый раз становится премьер-министром Индии.

В апреле 1962 г. произошли следующие события :

1 апреля 1962 г. (воскресенье) [ править ]

  • Новая Зеландия Broadcasting Corporation была создана. [1]
  • Родился: Филипп Шофилд , английский телеведущий, в Олдхэме [2]
  • Умер: Мишель де Гельдерод , 63 года, бельгийский драматург [3]

2 апреля 1962 г. (понедельник) [ править ]

  • Третий Лок Сабха начал свою пятилетний сессию в парламенте Индии, с 494 законодателями. Он продлился до 3 марта 1967 года. [4] Джавахарлал Неру стал премьер-министром Индии в четвертый раз, хотя и с уменьшенным большинством. [5]

3 апреля 1962 г. (вторник) [ править ]

  • Окружной судья США Дж. Скелли Райт распорядился о десегрегации начальных школ в Новом Орлеане , чтобы афроамериканцы и белые учащиеся вместе посещали с первого по шестой классы. Приказ Райта поступил через неделю после того, как архиепископ Джозеф Раммель приказал объединить римско-католические частные школы в Новом Орлеане . [6]
  • Губернатор Гавайев Уильям Ф. Куинн объявил «чрезвычайное положение с продовольствием» после того, как началась третья неделя забастовки американских кораблестроителей. С 16 марта грузчики отказались выгружать продукты с восьми судов в гавани Гонолулу. Губернатор Куинн подсчитал, что на Гавайях осталось всего две недели основных продуктов питания. [7] Две недели спустя федеральный судья в Калифорнии применит закон Тафта-Хартли, чтобы временно остановить забастовку. [8]
  • Когда война за независимость Алжира подошла к концу, боевики ОАГ из европейских стран около Алжира совершили террористический акт против мусульманской больницы в пригороде Бо-Фрезье, в результате чего погибли девять человек. 15 бывших солдат французской армии, вооруженные автоматами, промчались мимо сотрудников больниц и нацелились на лежачих пациентов, а затем вышли. Большинство пострадавших были госпитализированы в течение нескольких месяцев из-за болезней, не связанных с войной. [9]
  • Родилась: Джая Прада , индийская актриса и политик, в Раджамандри [10]

4 апреля 1962 г. (среда) [ править ]

  • Джон Кеннет Гэлбрейт , в то время посол США в Индии , написал письмо президенту Кеннеди, в котором предлагал заключить мир между Северным Вьетнамом и Южным Вьетнамом до того, как американское присутствие продолжит эскалацию. Кеннеди чувствовал, что план осуществим, и поручил помощнику госсекретаря США Авереллу Гарриману положительно ответить на идею Гэлбрейта. Спустя годы исследователь Гарет Портер обнаружит изменение Гарримана в телеграмме Гэлбрейту, заменив одобрение президентом переговоров о взаимной деэскалации с указанием угрожать дальнейшей эскалацией, если Северный Вьетнам не уйдет. [11]
  • Умер: Джеймс Ханратти , 25 лет, английский преступник, повешен в Бедфордской тюрьме за убийство А6 в 1961 году . Впоследствии свидетели утверждали, что видели его в то время в другом городе. В 1997 году комитет полиции пришел к выводу, что он был незаконно осужден, но решение было отменено Комиссией по рассмотрению уголовных дел и оставлено без изменения апелляционным судом в 2002 году [12].

5 апреля 1962 г. (четверг) [ править ]

  • Федеральное большое жюри предъявило обвинение Билли Сол Эстесу , главному стороннику тогдашнего вице-президента США Линдона Б. Джонсона , вместе с тремя помощниками Эстеса по обвинению в заговоре с целью мошенничества с инвесторами на сумму 24 миллиона долларов. [13]
  • Судья Верховного суда США Феликс Франкфуртер перенес инсульт, находясь в своем офисе, и так и не смог вернуться к рассмотрению дел. Он уйдет в отставку 28 августа. [14]
  • Родилась: Сара Даниус , шведский литературный критик и философ, в Табе (умерла в 2019 г.) [15] Кирсан Илюмжинов , калмыцкий политик-мультимиллионер, бывший президент международной шахматной федерации ФИДЕ и лидер российской республики Калмыкия; в Элисте , РСФСР, СССР [16]

6 апреля 1962 г. (пятница) [ править ]

  • Объединенные сталелитейщики Америки и производители стали заключили новый контракт при посредничестве Министерства труда США, в котором профсоюз снизил свои требования о повышении заработной платы с 17 до 10 центов в час, основываясь на решимости Белого дома сдерживать цены. Четыре дня спустя сталелитейщики все равно подняли цены. Разъяренный президент Кеннеди вынудил US Steel и другие компании отменить повышение 13 апреля [17].
  • Американский дирижер Леонард Бернстайн из Нью-Йоркского филармонического оркестра вызвал споры своими высказываниями перед концертом с участием пианиста Гленна Гулда . Бернштейн заявил, что, хотя он не согласен со стилем исполнения Гулда Фортепианного концерта № 1 Брамса, он нашел идеи Гулда увлекательными и все равно дирижирует. Действия Бернштейна получили резкую критику музыкального критика Гарольда Шенберга из The New York Times . [18]

7 апреля 1962 г. (суббота) [ править ]

  • Военный трибунал из пяти человек на Кубе признал 1179 выживших нападавших во время вторжения в Залив Свиней виновными в попытке свержения правительства годом ранее, приговорив каждого заключенного к 30 годам лишения свободы. Трибунал наложил «штрафы» на общую сумму 62 миллиона долларов за освобождение заключенных. [19] Соединенные Штаты проведут переговоры об освобождении мужчин к концу года с доставкой лекарств и еды на сумму 53 миллиона долларов. [20]
  • В джаз-клубе Ealing в Лондоне Брайана Джонса познакомили с Миком Джаггером и Китом Ричардсом . Эти трое станут сердцем The Rolling Stones , сформированной позже в том же году. [21]
  • Писателя Милована Джиласа , в свое время бывшего вице-президентом Югославии и возможного преемника президента Тито, вернули в тюрьму после нарушения нового югославского закона, который считал преступлением писать о «конфиденциальных предметах, которые могут нанести вред Югославии». Джилас находился в тюрьме с 1957 по 1961 год после критики коммунизма в своей книге «Новый класс» . Новые обвинения вытекают из январской журнальной статьи в итальянском журнале Tempo Presente и готовящейся к выходу книги « Разговоры со Сталиным» . [22]
  • Умер: Ярослав Дурыч , 75 лет, чешский писатель [23].

8 апреля 1962 г. (воскресенье) [ править ]

  • In France, the Évian Accords were ratified in a referendum, with 9 out of every 10 French voters in favor of letting French Algeria become its own independent nation.[24] The final result was 17,866,423 in favor of Algerian independence, and 1,809,074 against.[25]
  • Died: Juan Belmonte, 69, Spanish bullfighter who revolutionized the sport[26]

April 9, 1962 (Monday)[edit]

  • The United States Marine Corps' involvement in the Vietnam War began when HMM-362 arrived at Soc Trang south of Saigon (South Vietnam).[27]
  • The Cosmonautics Day holiday was established in the Soviet Union, a year after the first manned space flight. It remains a holiday (April 12) and is now designated International Day of Human Space Flight.[28]
  • A two-day conference opened in Washington, D.C., between representatives of four of the largest American church organizations. The Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church, the United Presbyterian Church and the United Church of Christ discussed a possible merger of the denominations to create "United Protestantism in America".[29]
  • Arnold Palmer won a three-way playoff for his third Masters Tournament title, beating defending champion Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald. All three of the golfers had finished the first 72 holes the day before in 280 strokes, after Palmer shot 75, Finsterwald 73 and Player 71. In the playoff, Palmer's 68 was followed by Player's 71 and Finsterwald's 77. [30]
  • Police in Marseilles recovered eight Paul Cézanne paintings that had been stolen on August 13 while on loan to a museum in Aix-en-Provence. The value of the works, which included The Card Players, was $2,000,000. "[31]
  • The Cleveland Pipers defeated the Kansas City Steers, 106-102, to win the first and only championship series in the American Basketball League. Cleveland had lost the first two games of the best-of-5 series, then won the next two 116-114 and 100-98, to force the final game, which took place at the small gymnasium at Kansas City's Rockhurst College because the city's arena wasn't available.[32] The Steers would be declared the champions of the 1962–63 ABL season based on having the best record when the league disbanded on December 31, 1962.

April 10, 1962 (Tuesday)[edit]

  • U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough informed President Kennedy, at a 5:45 pm meeting at the White House, that the largest steel manufacturer in the world was planning to raise its prices by six dollars per ton at 12:01 a.m. Kennedy reportedly told Blough, "You've made a terrible mistake."[11] As Blough's press release reached American newspapers, the President announced that he would have a special press conference on Thursday.[33]
  • The Houston Colt .45s, later renamed the Houston Astros, played their very first game, defeating the visiting Chicago Cubs, 11–2, and in Los Angeles, the first MLB game was played at Dodger Stadium, where 52,564 fans watched the home team lose, 6–3, to the Cincinnati Reds.[34]
  • Jamaica held its first parliamentary elections, in preparation for its independence from the United Kingdom. The Jamaica Labour Party won 26 of 45 parliamentary seats, making Alexander Bustamante the new Prime Minister. Losing its legislative majority was the People's National Party, led by colonial Chief Minister Norman Manley.[35]
  • Died:
    • Stu Sutcliffe, 21, original bass player for The Beatles until being replaced by Paul McCartney, died of a cerebral hemorrhage[36]
    • Michael Curtiz (Kertész Kaminer Manó), 75, Hungarian-American director of multiple films, including Casablanca, for which he won an Academy Award[37]

April 11, 1962 (Wednesday)[edit]

  • As three other American steelmakers announced a price hike, President Kennedy denounced "Big Steel" in a press conference "with the strongest language he has leveled at anyone or anything since becoming President".[38] In March, the U.S. Department of Labor had helped mediate a contract between the United Steelworkers of America and the companies, with the union agreeing to a smaller wage increase in order to prevent a price rise.
  • The New York Mets played their first game, losing to the St. Louis Cardinals, 11–4, at St. Louis.[39]
  • Died: George Poage, 81, first African-American athlete to win an Olympic medal[40]

April 12, 1962 (Thursday)[edit]

  • President Kennedy demanded that American steelmakers completely roll back the price hike that they had announced earlier in the week, and the U.S. Department of Justice ordered a federal grand jury investigation for possible antitrust violations.[11] U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough said in a press conference that the $6 per ton increase would not be rescinded. Meanwhile, two smaller companies, Inland Steel and Armco Steel, refused to go along with the six that did raise their prices.[41]
  • Nine miners were killed and nine injured in an accident at Tower Colliery, Hirwaun, Wales.[42]
  • Born: Jarosław Kalinowski, Polish politician who briefly served as Deputy Prime Minister of Poland; in Wyszków[43]
  • Died: Antoine Pevsner, 76, Belarusian Soviet sculptor[44]

April 13, 1962 (Friday)[edit]

  • U.S. Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg met privately in New York City with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, and outlined the steps that the Kennedy administration would take if the steel price increase continued.[45] At 3:05 pm, Kaiser Steel rescinded its price increase, followed by Bethlehem Steel at 3:21 pm. The largest of the companies, U.S. Steel, capitulated at 5:25 pm, followed by Republic Steel (5:57), Pittsburgh Steel (6:26), Jones & Laughlin (6:37), National Steel (7:33) and Youngstown Sheet & Tube (9:09).[11][46]
  • Edmond Jouhaud, the second-in-command of the Organisation armée secrète, was sentenced to death in France.[47]

April 14, 1962 (Saturday)[edit]

  • Michel Debre resigned the office of Prime Minister of France after more than three years, bringing to a close "the longest French parliamentary government since the 18th century"[48] and was replaced by Georges Pompidou, who would succeed Charles de Gaulle as President of France
  • Cuba's new revolutionary socialist prime minister Fidel Castro, "in an unexpected burst of generosity", allowed 60 of the 1,179 Bay of Pigs invaders to be released from Principe Prison for reasons of health, and to be flown from Havana to Miami on a Pan American World Airways jet, without conditions.[49]
  • Elgin Baylor scored a playoff record 61 points for the Los Angeles Lakers, who won Game 5 of the NBA finals, 128–121, against the Celtics at the Boston Garden.[50] The record would stand for 24 years, until broken by Michael Jordan on April 20, 1986, also against the Celtics at Boston Garden.[51]
  • Died: Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, 101, Indian engineer and statesman[52]

April 15, 1962 (Sunday)[edit]

  • The Society of Toxicology assembled for its first meeting, conducted in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[53]
  • Born: Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan athlete, in Casablanca[54]
  • Died:
    • Arsenio Lacson, 50, Mayor of Manila, after suffering a stroke at a hotel suite while preparing to leave to make his weekly radio and television broadcast.[55]
    • Clara Blandick, 85, American stage and film actress best known for portraying "Aunt Em" in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, committed suicide in her Hollywood apartment after suffering for years from arthritis and facing the loss of her eyesight.[56]

April 16, 1962 (Monday)[edit]

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  • Walter Cronkite, a former United Press reporter best known for hosting the CBS program You Are There, replaced Douglas Edwards as the anchorman for the CBS Evening News, at that time a 15-minute program that ran from 6:45 to 7:00 pm Eastern Time. Cronkite, who would be nicknamed "The Most Trusted Man in America", would anchor the news until his retirement in 1981, when he would be replaced by Dan Rather.[57]
  • Folk singer Bob Dylan, who had recently released his debut album, made the first public performance of what would become his signature song, "Blowin' in the Wind". The setting was Gerde's Folk City, a "jazz club" located at 11 West 4th Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.[58]
  • Byron White was sworn in as a new Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, five days after being confirmed by the Senate on a voice vote. The first Justice to have been a former clerk, and the only former NFL player to ever serve on the High Court, White served until 1993, when he would be replaced by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.[59]
  • Born: Martin Zaimov, Bulgarian financier and politician, in Geneva, Switzerland

April 17, 1962 (Tuesday)[edit]

  • The Strategic Hamlet Program was started by United States funding in South Vietnam, with the forcible move of residents of small villages to new locations that could be protected from Viet Cong infiltration. Within the first year, nearly eight million people were settled in more than 6,000 such hamlets.[60]
  • After concluding that the sealing of East Germany's borders had been successful, the Politburo for the DDR's Germany's Communist Party, the SED, approved a new policy instructing police to make fewer arrests and for the courts to apply lesser penalties for violations of the law. In June, 6,000 prisoners would be released from prison.[61]
  • In a by-election for the UK parliamentary constituency of Derby North, caused by the death of sitting MP Clifford Wilcock, Niall MacDermot retained the seat for the Labour Party.[62]

April 18, 1962 (Wednesday)[edit]

  • The Commonwealth Immigrants Act in the United Kingdom received royal assent, removing free immigration from the citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, requiring proof of employment in the UK. The law would go into effect on July 1.[63]
  • The Boston Celtics won their 4th consecutive NBA Championship in the 7th game of the best-of-seven series, in overtime. The Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, tied 3–3 in the series, were tied 100–100 at the end of regulation. L.A.'s Frank Selvy had tied the game, then missed a jump shot that would have won in regulation.[64]
  • What was described as a fireball (a brighter than usual meteoroid) exploded ten miles south of the town of Eureka, Utah, at 8:15 pm local time. The burst of light was visible across the western United States, as far east as Gridley, Kansas.[65] Although subsequent retellings of the story have referred to the sighting as an unidentified flying object that "landed near a power plant" in Eureka, stayed for 40 minutes, and blacked out the entire town until its departure,[66] p83, contemporary reports indicated that only the town's street lights were off momentarily because the photo-sensors reacted to the daylight-like brightness. Other authors books have described the object as being seen in Oneida, New York, minutes before reaching Utah, while reports at the time noted that NORAD received one report "from as far away as New York", though all other sightings were from eleven western states.[67]
  • The first underground ballistic missile base in the U.S. became operational, with the delivery of the first nine Titan I missiles, to silos at Lowry Air Force Base, in, Colorado.[68] By September 28, all 54 Titans would be activated at bases in five western U.S. states.[69] However, all of the Titan I group would be removed by April 1, 1965 when they were made obsolete by the more efficient Atlas ICBM rockets, which did not have to be raised from the silo in order to be fueled and armed.[70]
  • Died: Harry A. Franck, 80, American travel writer

April 19, 1962 (Thursday)[edit]

  • Communist China's Prime Minister Zhou En-lai arrived in Delhi to begin six days of meetings with India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to negotiate an end to a boundary dispute between the world's two largest nations. No resolution was had, and the two would go to war six months later.[71]
  • Born: Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver who won the Indianapolis 500 in 1992 and 1994; in Albuquerque, New Mexico[72]

April 20, 1962 (Friday)[edit]

  • OAS leader Raoul Salan was arrested in Algiers, after a tip from a drug dealer led French Army security forces to his hideout on the fifth floor of a luxury apartment building in Algiers. Salan had dyed his gray hair black and grown a mustache. General Salan had once been commander of the French Army in Algeria, before leading a revolt against the plan to separate French Algeria as a state independent of France.[73]
  • The National Socialist Movement (NSM) was founded by right-wing Britons Colin Jordan and John Tyndall, as a Neo-Nazi political party and a revival of Oswald Mosley's pre-World War II British Union of Fascists.[74]
  • Died: Grover Whalen, 75, New York City public events co-ordinator credited with inventing the ticker-tape parade.[75]

April 21, 1962 (Saturday)[edit]

  • The Century 21 Exposition World's Fair opened in Seattle, Washington, at 11:00 am local time. A group of 1,000 newsmen had previewed the fair the day before. In addition to the 606 foot tall Space Needle building, which became a symbol of Seattle, the Fair included a carnival that would "fit a working man's budget". The carnival, in operation for the duration of the fair, was called "Gayway".[76] The fair would run until October 21, hosting 9,609,969 guests over six months.[77]
  • A flight formation of 24 U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy jets, part of the opening ceremonies of the Seattle World's Fair, ended in tragedy. One of the F-102 Dagger jet fighters experienced flight trouble. The pilot ejected safely, but the jet crashed into a residential neighborhood at the suburb of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, destroying two homes and killing an elderly couple. A five-member family, that normally resided in the other home, had gone on Easter vacation to avoid the traffic associated with the fair opening.[78]
  • Carlos Ortíz defeated Joe Brown to win the world lightweight boxing championship. Ortíz had formerly been in a heavier class as the world junior welterweight champion. Brown had been the lightweight champion for more than five years.[79]
  • Died: Frederick Handley Page, 76, founder of Britain's first aircraft manufacturing company, Handley Page, Ltd.[80]

April 22, 1962 (Sunday)[edit]

  • The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Chicago Blackhawks, 2–1, to win ice hockey's Stanley Cup in the sixth game of a best-of-seven series.[81]
  • Soviet citizens who had been living in China's Xinjiang Province began crossing the Chinese-Soviet border to escape famine and persecution. Over the next six weeks, 67,000 people fled from Xinjiang into the Kazakh SSR, without interference from either side.[82]
  • Born: Han Aiping, Chinese badminton player and 1985 and 1987 women's world champion; in Wuhan
  • Died: Vera Reynolds, 62, American film actress[83]

April 23, 1962 (Monday)[edit]

  • The American Ranger 4 satellite was launched at 2:50 pm local time from Cape Canaveral, with the objective of gathering data from the Moon. A few hours later, ground control found that the satellite would be unable to keep still enough to provide useful information. One NASA official commented, "All we've got is an idiot with a radio signal."[84]
  • After starting with nine consecutive losses in their first season, baseball's New York Mets finally won a game, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, who had started 1962 with ten consecutive wins.[85] The Mets would finish the 1962 season with a record of 40 wins and 120 losses, 60+1⁄2 games out of first place.[86]
  • At a motor racing meeting at Goodwood Circuit, UK, Graham Hill won the 1962 Glover Trophy and Bruce McLaren won the 1962 Lavant Cup. During the Glover Trophy race, Stirling Moss suffered serious injuries in an accident, which effectively ended his career as a top-level racing driver.[87]
  • Born: John Hannah, Scottish actor, in East Kilbride[88]

April 24, 1962 (Tuesday)[edit]

  • In a joint session of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev was re-elected as Premier of the Soviet Union, and Leonid Brezhnev was re-elected as President of the Presidium.[89] Khrushchev would be replaced on October 14, 1964, as both the Premier (by Alexei Kosygin) and Communist Party First Secretary, by Brezhnev.[90]
  • The Soviet Kosmos 4 satellite, the first designed to cover the entire land area of the United States from orbit, was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1002 UTC. It would circuit the Earth for three days before returning with its data.[91][92]
  • Died:
    • Emilio Prados, 63, Spanish poet[93]
    • Prince Sahle Selassie, 31, youngest child of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia[94]

April 25, 1962 (Wednesday)[edit]

  • The United States ended its moratorium on atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons at 10:45 pm local time near Christmas Island.[95]
  • "We have created the first synthetic thunderstorm in space", NASA scientist Dr. Wernher Von Braun announced, after an American Saturn rocket released 95 tons of water into the ionosphere. At an altitude of 65 miles, explosives on the rocket were detonated by ground control, creating a 25 mile wide cloud of ice that was visible from Florida. Von Braun announced that electrical charges were detected in the ice mass.[96]
  • In Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev informed the USSR's legislature, the Supreme Soviet, that the nation would need to replace the constitution that had been in place since 1936.[97]

April 26, 1962 (Thursday)[edit]

  • The American Ranger 4 satellite mission was not fully successful, but marked the first time that the United States was able to place an object on the Moon. A malfunction in the guidance system prevented Ranger 4 from sending back usable photographs or other data. Tumbling out of control, the satellite crashed (as planned) into the far side of the Moon at 7:49 a.m. Eastern Time (1249 UTC), after a 64-hour journey from Earth. Impacting at nearly 6,000 miles per hour, Ranger 4 was destroyed, but proved that the U.S. could land on the Moon.[98]
  • The first British satellite, Ariel 1, was launched at 1800 UTC from the Wallops Flight Facility in the United States, and remained in Earth orbit until April 24, 1976. The United Kingdom and United States collaboration made the launch the first multinational space effort in history.[92][99]
  • The A-12 Blackbird, prototype for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird jet airplane, made its first flight, piloted by Lou Schalk, who took off and landed at the Groom Lake base in Nevada.[100]
  • At a stockholders meeting at the Studebaker-Packard Corporation, the Packard name was dropped entirely, bringing an end to the automobile brand that had existed since 1902. The company had assumed the name after Packard Motor Car Company had merged with Studebaker Corporation in 1954.[101]
  • Cleveland Indians catcher Harry Chiti was traded to the New York Mets "for a player to be named later". On June 15, the Mets would name Chiti as the player to be sent to the Indians' farm system, making him the first Major League Baseball player to be "traded for himself".[102]
  • Died: Jerry Skinner, 62, New Zealand politician and war hero[103]

April 27, 1962 (Friday)[edit]

  • In Los Angeles, a confrontation outside a mosque between two LAPD officers, and two members of the Nation of Islam, led to a shootout that killed one of the men. When a group of Black Muslims came out of the building, the situation escalated involving 75 police. When the confrontation was over, mosque secretary Ronald Stokes was dead, and six other Muslims and seven policemen were injured. The two policemen claimed self-defense in the face of an attack[104] while the Muslims said that their secretary, Ronald Stokes, had been beaten and shot at close range, after which the officers fired into an unarmed crowd.[105] The incident, which heightened racial tensions in L.A., first brought Malcolm X to national attention, and led to a split between him and NOI leader Elijah Muhammad.[106]
  • Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the General Secretary of Romania's Communist Party, announced that the implementation of collective farming nationwide had been successful, with the government fully controlling all agricultural production.[107]
  • Wake Forest University was made fully integrated, after trustees voted 17–9 to allow qualified undergraduates to be admitted regardless of race. A year earlier, the North Carolina college had dropped racial bars to admission to Wake's post-graduate schools, and for nighttime classes.[108]
  • The USAF Special Air Warfare Center was activated at Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Florida.[109]
  • Died: A. K. Fazlul Huq, 88, Bengali statesman who had served as Governor of East Pakistan (now the nation of Bangladesh) from 1956 to 1958, and Chief Minister of the Bengal state in British India (1937–43)

April 28, 1962 (Saturday)[edit]

  • Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Baker v. Carr, a federal court in Atlanta ruled that Georgia's county-unit system was unconstitutional. Since 1868, voting in primary elections was done in a system similar to that of the American electoral college, with each of Georgia's 159 counties having at least two "unit votes", and a provision that whichever candidate finished first in a county would receive that county's units. Eight counties had six units, and 30 had four units, so voters in rural and low populated counties had a greater share of representation in a statewide election.[110]
  • Norway's Parliament, the Storting, voted 113–37 in favor of Norway applying to join the European Economic Community. France would veto the application later in the year, but Norway would join the Common Market in 1972.[111]
  • Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist and Nazi Party member who had saved more than 1,200 Polish Jews from extermination by the Nezi government, was honored on his 54th birthday at the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, and proclaimed as a ger toshav ("a righteous Gentile").[112]
  • Ipswich Town F.C. finished in first place in the English League, winning the league championship with a record of 24 wins, 8 draws and 10 losses. The team was in its first season in the soccer football league's First Division, having been promoted from Second Division play after its 1960–61 finish. It was the first time since 1889 that the major league championship was captured by a first year team. Dundee F.C. won its first Scottish League title on the same day, with a record of 25-4-5.[113]
  • Died: Gianna Beretta Molla, 39, Italian pediatrician and mother who would be canonized as a Roman Catholic Saint in 2004.[114]

April 29, 1962 (Sunday)[edit]

  • In one of the largest White House state dinners in modern times, the President and Mrs. Kennedy hosted 173 scientists, educators and writers, including 49 Nobel Prize laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy made the famous remark, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge ever gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."[115] Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of the 1954 prize in chemistry, picketed outside of the White House in an anti-nuclear demonstration earlier in the day, then went inside to join the President for dinner.[116] On greeting Dr. Pauling, Kennedy said, "I'm glad you decided to come inside."[115]
  • Dick Thompson won the President's Cup Race at Virginia International Raceway.[117]

April 30, 1962 (Monday)[edit]

  • The pamphlet "Burmese Way to Socialism" (Myanma Hsoshelit Lanzin) was published and distributed throughout Burma, explaining the political philosophies of General Ne Win, who had overthrown the government on March 2.[118] Ne Win's Revolutionary Council would form the Burma Socialist Programme Party on July 4 to implement his vision for transforming the nation by establishing "a socialist economy based on justice", and would be national dogma until he left office in 1988.[119]
  • NASA test pilot Joe Walker set a new altitude record for a fixed wing aircraft, flying an X-15 jet up to 246,700 feet (75,190 meters). Afterwards, Walker told reporters "there is no question that we can put a winged vehicle in orbit and land it".[120] On August 22, 1963, Walker would pass the 100 kilometer mark to reach outer space, though not orbit, in an airplane, attaining 107.955 km altitude.[121]
  • Died: Lester Volk, 77, child prodigy musician, physician, lawyer, journalist, and U.S. Congressman (R-N.Y.) 1920 to 1923[122]

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