February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
Day of death June 30, 1962
The temperature on June 30, 1962 was between 9.0 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
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