MLB: Dodgers Using Umpires in Batting Practice
Feb. 26, 1962 - The Los Angeles Dodgers came up with an innovation today: they used umpires in batting practice. Manager Walter Alston,...
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Feb 26, 2022
Maris and Yankees Settle on $70,000 for 1962
Feb. 26, 1962 - Roger Maris today settled for $70,000 as his 1962 salary with the Yankees. Then the man whose 61 home runs in 1961 topped...
Feb 26, 2022
President Kennedy Speaks to Employees of Voice of America
Feb. 26, 1962 - President Kennedy told employees of the Voice of America today that their job was to tell the truth about the United...
Feb 26, 2022
Feb. 26, 1962 - Robert F. Kennedy Arrives in Paris
Feb. 26, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy is approaching the end of his month-long goodwill tour. Today, he arrived in Paris...
Feb 26, 2022
Glenn Gets Roaring Welcome Home
Feb. 26, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. and his family received a joyous, roaring welcome from their neighbors that almost got out...
Feb 26, 2022
Caroline Kennedy to Col. Glenn: "Where's the Monkey?"
Feb. 26, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John Glenn Jr. told Congress today that President Kennedy’s 4-year-old daughter, Caroline, seems to have him...
Feb 26, 2022
South Vietnamese President Diem's Palace Bombed
Feb. 26, 1962 - Two fighter-bombers bearing markings of the South Vietnamese Air Force attacked President Ngo Dinh Diem’s today with...
Feb 26, 2022
Colonel Glenn Cheered Along Pennsylvania Avenue
Feb. 26, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. was cheered up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol today by thousands of drenched spectators...
Feb 25, 2022
Heavyweight Champ Floyd Patterson Speaks at NAACP Conference in Mississippi
Feb. 25, 1962 - Floyd Patterson (pictured right with Eleanor Roosevelt), the heavyweight boxing champion, said today that he felt guilty...
Feb 25, 2022
Moscow Denounces Kennedy World Tour
Feb. 25, 1962 - The travels of the Kennedy brothers resulted in a violent denunciation from Moscow today. Attorney General Robert F....
Feb 25, 2022
Edward M. Kennedy Visits Irish Kinfolk
Feb. 25, 1962 - Edward M. Kennedy, the youngest brother of President Kennedy, arrived in Dublin from London today on what he described as...
Feb 25, 2022
All Seven Mercury Astronauts Headed to New York
Feb. 25, 1962 - All seven Mercury astronauts will come to New York City for the parade honoring Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. on...
Feb 25, 2022
United States Will Continue Offering All Necessary Aid to Vietnam
Feb. 25, 1962 - The U.S. is not interested in engaging in any international consultations over the situation in Vietnam as demanded by...
Feb 24, 2022
NFL: Jim Brown Continues Rushing Dominance
Feb. 24, 1962 - Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns is the only player in NFL history to win individual rushing titles five times, the...
Feb 24, 2022
Robert F. Kennedy: Democracy is "Wave of the Future"
Feb. 24, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (pictured with Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin) predicted today that Eastern Europe...
Feb 24, 2022
Communist China Protests American Buildup in Vietnam
Feb. 24, 1962 - Communist China declared today that its security was seriously affected by an “undeclared war” waged by the U.S. in South...
Feb 24, 2022
Robert F. Kennedy Visits Bonn
Feb. 24, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy told a group of university students in Bonn today that the U.S. would not go to war to...
Feb 23, 2022
Richardson Signs 1962 Contract with Yanks, Maris Still Holding Out
Feb. 23, 1962 - Second baseman Bobby Richardson (pictured left with Mickey Mantle) signed his 1962 contract with the New York Yankees...
Feb 23, 2022
VIDEO: CBS-TV News Presentation on Glenn Spaceflight
Feb. 23, 1962 - Here is a special CBS News presentation on the historic flight of Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr. #nasa #nasabeyond...
Feb 23, 2022
Colonel Glenn Appeared on 1957 Quiz Show
Feb. 23, 1962 - It would have been hard to convince anyone in a television quiz-show audience in New York a little more than four years...
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