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  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Saturday Aug 4, 1962
    Marilyn Monroe

    Death

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Saturday Aug 4, 1962

    During the final months of her life, Monroe lived at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her housekeeper Eunice Murray was staying overnight at the home on the evening of Saturday, August 4, 1962.Murray awoke at 3:00 a.m. on August 5 and sensed that something was wrong. Although she saw light from under Monroe's bedroom door, she was unable to get a response and found the door locked. Murray then called Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who arrived at the house shortly after and broke into the bedroom through a window, finding Monroe dead in her bed. Monroe's physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, arrived at the house at around 3:50 a.m.and pronounced her dead at the scene. At 4:25 a.m., they notified the Los Angeles Police Department. At last they later discovered that Monroe died between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on August 4,and the toxicology report revealed that the cause of death was acute barbiturate poisoning.




  • Howick, South Africa
    Sunday Aug 5, 1962
    Nelson Mandela

    Police captured Mandela

    Howick, South Africa
    Sunday Aug 5, 1962

    On 5 August 1962, police captured Mandela along with fellow activist Cecil Williams near Howick.




  • U.S
    Friday Aug 10, 1962
    Cuban Missile Crisis

    John A. McCone and John F. Kennedy discussed Soviets' plan

    U.S
    Friday Aug 10, 1962

    CIA director John A. McCone was suspicious. Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, "made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States". On August 10, he wrote a memo to Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.




  • U.S.
    Aug, 1962
    Internet

    On-Line Man-Computer Communication

    U.S.
    Aug, 1962

    In August 1962, Licklider and Welden Clark published the paper "On-Line Man-Computer Communication" which was one of the first descriptions of a networked future.




  • England
    Thursday Aug 16, 1962
    The Beatles

    Best's dismissal

    England
    Thursday Aug 16, 1962

    Already contemplating Best's dismissal, the Beatles replaced him in mid-August with Ringo Starr, who left Rory Storm and the Hurricanes to join them.




  • France
    Wednesday Aug 22, 1962
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle targeted for death

    France
    Wednesday Aug 22, 1962

    De Gaulle was targeted for death by the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), in retaliation for his Algerian initiatives. Several assassination attempts were made on him; the most famous took place on 22 August 1962.




  • Cuba
    Thursday Aug 30, 1962
    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The first issue between US and Soviet

    Cuba
    Thursday Aug 30, 1962

    The first issue that led to a pause in reconnaissance flights took place on August 30, when a U-2 operated by the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command flew over Sakhalin Island in the Soviet Far East by mistake.


  • U.S
    Friday Aug 31, 1962
    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Senator Kenneth Keating warning of a missile base in Cuba

    U.S
    Friday Aug 31, 1962

    On August 31, Senator Kenneth Keating (R-New York) warned on the Senate floor that the Soviet Union was "in all probability" constructing a missile base in Cuba. He charged the Kennedy administration with covering up a major threat to the US, thereby starting the crisis.


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