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President: John F Kennedy Vice
President: Lyndon B Johnson |
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The population of the United States
is 185,771,000 |
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National Debt 302.9 Billion |
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Unemployment is 6.7% (up 1.2% from
1961) |
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Life Expectancy: 70.1 years |
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Family median income = $6,000 (up
$300. from 1961) |
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Academy Award : West Side Story (click to buy)
 (Best
Picture) |
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Grammy Award : Moon River: (click to buy)
 (song),
Judy At Carnegie Hall (click to
buy)  (album) |
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Pulitzer Prize : The Edge of Sadness (click to
buy) 
(Fiction) |
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The United States Navy Commissions
the first SEAL (SEa, Air and Land)Team |
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President Kennedy announces an
embargo blocking any soviet ships from reaching Cuba |
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Francis Gary Powers the U-2 pilot
who was shot down over Russia is exchanged for captured Soviet
spy Rudolf Abel in Berlin |
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Adolph Eichmann, the captured Nazi,
is found guilty of war crimes and executed in Israel |
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The United States Supreme Court
rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are
unconstitutional (Engel v. Vitale) |
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Wal-Mart opens its first store in
Rogers, Arkansas |
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American artist Andy Warhol
premieres his Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit |
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AT&T launches Telstar, the
world's first commercial communications satellite |
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Telstar relays the first live
trans-Atlantic television signal |
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Nelson Mandela is arrested and
jailed in S. Africa |
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The Beatles (click for Beatles pages)replace
drummer Pete Best with Ringo Starr |
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Johnny Carson takes over as host of
NBC's Tonight Show, he hosts the show until 1992 |
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Dr. No, the first James Bond film,
premieres |
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The US discovers the building of
Soviet missiles in Cuba, in a series of diplomatic and military
moves President Kennedy forces their removal from the communist
nation |
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Britain and France sign an
agreement to develop the Concorde supersonic airliner |
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Mariner II, the first
interplanetary probe, reaches Venus sending the first ever signal
from another planet |
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Popular dances were of course the
twist also the mashed potato, the jerk, the swim, the monkey and
the Watusi |
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Television debuts included:
The Jetsons, and
The
Beverly Hillbillies (click show title for
more info) |
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Marilyn Monroe apparently committed
suicide leading to conspiracy theories centered around her
involvement with the Kennedys |
Pop History
/ 1962
