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Spottswood Poles was an American outfielder in baseball's Negro leagues. One of the fastest players of his era, Poles was sometimes referred to as "the black Ty Cobb."
Spot Poles, American baseball player and soldier (born 1887)
Rangeya Raghava was an Indian writer.
Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (born 1923)
Frederick William Schule was an American track and field athlete, football player, athletic coach, teacher, bacteriologist, and engineer. He competed for the track and field teams …
Frederick Schule, American hurdler, football player, and coach (born 1879)
Therese Neumann was a German Catholic mystic and stigmatic. Neumann has been considered a Servant of God by the Catholic Church since 2005.
Therese Neumann, German mystic (born 1898)
Armenter Chatmon, known as Bo Carter, was an early American blues musician. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in concerts and on a few of their recordings. He also managed …
Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1892)
Charles Francis Reisner was an American film director and actor of the 1920s and 1930s.
Charles Reisner, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1887)
Roger Nimier was a French novelist.
Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (born 1925)
Tod Browning was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. He directed a number of films of various g…
Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (born 1880)
Milan Vidmar was a Yugoslav-Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in …
Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player and engineer (born 1885)
Stancho Belkovski, was a Bulgarian architect.
Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian-Polish architect (born 1891)
Iván Petrovich was a Serbian film actor and singer.
Iván Petrovich, Serbian-German actor and singer (born 1894)
Louise Beavers was an American film and television actress who appeared in dozens of films and two hit television shows from the 1920s to 1960. She played a prominent role in advan…
Louise Beavers, American actress (born 1902)
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of e…
Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (born 1884)
Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian av…
Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and set designer (born 1882)
Rudolf Anderson Jr. was an American Air Force major and pilot. He was the first recipient of the Air Force Cross, the U.S. military's and Air Force's second-highest award and decor…
Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (born 1927)
Enrico Mattei was an Italian public administrator. After World War II, he was given the task of dismantling the Italian petroleum agency Agip, a state enterprise established by Fas…
Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (born 1906)
The Century 21 Exposition was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington, United States. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair during its …
The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into E…
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule
Association football, more commonly known as just football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball …
One of the most violent football matches took place at the World Cup as Chile defeated Italy in a group match
Aeroflot Flight 213 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by Aeroflot from Chersky Airport to Keperveyem Airport. On 18 September 1962, the Ilyushin Il-14 operating …
Aeroflot Flight 213 crashed into a mountain near Chersky Airport, killing 32 people.
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on Chesapeake Bay, primar…
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, went out of business
A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials, including municipal solid waste. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial o…
A fire at a landfill in Centralia, Pennsylvania, spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning today
On the night of June 11, 1962, inmates Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island…
American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States'
The 1962 Rangoon University protests, also known as the 7 July Student Uprising, were a series of marches, demonstrations, and protests against stricter campus regulations, the end…
Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic…