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  • San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
    Jun, 1962
    Neil Armstrong

    The NACA Medical Exam

    San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
    Jun, 1962

    At Brooks Air Force Base at the end of June, Armstrong underwent a medical exam that many of the applicants described as painful and at times seemingly pointless.




  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Friday Jun 1, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    sculpting dummy

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Friday Jun 1, 1962

    The men concealed their absence while working outside their cells and after the escape itself by sculpting dummy heads from a home-made paper-mâché-like mixture of soap, toothpaste, concrete dust, and toilet paper, and giving them a realistic appearance with paint from the maintenance shop and hair from the barbershop floor. With towels and clothing piled under the blankets in their bunks and the dummy heads positioned on the pillows, they appeared to be sleeping.




  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Jun, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Plan Procedures

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Jun, 1962

    Once the holes were wide enough to pass through, the escapees nightly accessed the utility corridor left unguarded directly behind their cells' tier and climbed to the vacant top level of the cellblock, where they set up a clandestine workshop unbeknownst to prison staff. Here, with over fifty raincoats among other stolen and donated materials, they constructed life preservers, based on a design one of them chanced to find in Popular Mechanics, as well as a six-by-fourteen-foot rubber raft, the seams carefully stitched by hand and sealed by steam pipes' heat. Having manufactured the raft, they inflated it with a concertina ingeniously rigged to serve as bellows and furnished the necessary paddles from scrap wood and pilfered screws. Finally, they climbed up a ventilation shaft bound for the roof, and, finding a ponderous fan-grille in the way, removed the rivets holding it in place.




  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Jun 4, 1962
    Neil Armstrong

    Armstrong applied to become an Astronaut

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Jun 4, 1962

    Armstrong visited the Seattle World's Fair in May 1962, and attended a conference there on space exploration that was co-sponsored by NASA. After he returned from Seattle on June 4, he applied to become an astronaut.




  • Monte Carlo
    Jun, 1962
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill had a fall in Monte Carlo

    Monte Carlo
    Jun, 1962

    In June 1962, when he was 87, Churchill had a fall in Monte Carlo and broke his hip. He was flown home to a London hospital where he remained for three weeks.




  • EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England
    Wednesday Jun 6, 1962
    The Beatles

    Martin's first recording session with the Beatles

    EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England
    Wednesday Jun 6, 1962

    Producer George Martin signed the Beatles to EMI's Parlophone label. His first recording session with the Beatles took place at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London on 6 June 1962. Martin immediately complained to Epstein about Best's poor drumming and suggested they use a session drummer in his place.




  • U.S.
    Thursday Jun 7, 1962
    Marilyn Monroe

    Fox fired Monroe and sued her

    U.S.
    Thursday Jun 7, 1962

    When Monroe was again on sick leave for several days, Fox decided that it could not afford to have another film running behind schedule when it was already struggling to cover the rising costs of Cleopatra (1963). On June 7, Fox fired Monroe and sued her for $750,000 in damages.Fox soon regretted its decision and re-opened negotiations with Monroe later in June.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Inmates

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962

    Frank Lee Morris (September 1, 1926 – disappeared June 11, 1962) was born in Washington, D.C.[19] He was abandoned by his mother and father during his childhood, and orphaned at age 11, The Anglin brothers, John William (May 2, 1930 – disappeared June 11, 1962) and Clarence (May 11, 1931 – disappeared June 11, 1962) were born into a family of thirteen children in Donalsonville, Georgia. Their parents, George Robert Anglin and Rachael Van Miller Anglin, were seasonal farmworkers; in the early 1940s, Allen Clayton West (March 25, 1929 – December 21, 1978) was born in New York City. He was imprisoned for car theft in 1955, first at Atlanta Penitentiary, then at Florida State Prison. After an unsuccessful escape attempt from the Florida facility, he was transferred to Alcatraz in 1957 and became inmate AZ1335.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Beginning The Escape

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962

    On the night of June 11, 1962, with all preparations in place, the men began their escape. However, the cement employed to shore up crumbling concrete around West's vent had hardened, diminishing the hole in size and fixing the grill in place. By the time he managed to remove the grill and re-widen the hole to egress, the others had already left, as he was soon to discover; he busted out to the prison roof only to return to his cell around sunrise and go to sleep. West went on to cooperate fully with investigators and give them a detailed description of the escape plan, in consequence of which he was not punished for his role in it.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962
    10 PM
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Executing The Plan

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962
    10 PM

    From the service corridor, Morris and the Anglins climbed the ventilation shaft to the roof. Guards heard a loud crash as they broke out of the shaft, but since nothing further was heard, the source of the noise was not investigated. Hauling their gear with them, they descended 50 feet (15 m) to the ground by sliding down a kitchen vent pipe, then climbed two 12-foot (3.7 m) barbed-wire perimeter fences. At the northeast shoreline, near the power plant—a blind spot in the prison's network of searchlights and gun towers they inflated their raft with the concertina. At some time after 10 p.m., investigators estimated, they boarded the raft, launched it and departed toward their objective, Angel Island, two miles to the north.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Discovery of the escape

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1962

    The escape was not discovered until the morning of June 12, 1962, due to the successful dummy head ruse. At the time of the escape, Warden Olin G. Blackwell was on vacation in Lake Berryessa in Napa County, California, and he did not believe the men could have survived the waters and make it to shore. In a joint effort, multiple military and law-enforcement agencies conducted extensive air, sea, and land search over the next 10 days. On June 14, a Coast Guard cutter picked up a paddle floating about 200 yards (180 m) off the southern shore of Angel Island.


  • Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Ñuñoa, Chile
    Sunday Jun 17, 1962
    Pelé

    1962 World Cup

    Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Ñuñoa, Chile
    Sunday Jun 17, 1962

    When the 1962 World Cup started, Pelé was the best rated player in the world. In the first match of the 1962 World Cup in Chile, against Mexico, Pelé assisted the first goal and then scored the second one, after a run past four defenders, to go up 2–0. He injured himself in the next game while attempting a long-range shot against Czechoslovakia. This would keep him out of the rest of the tournament.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Thursday Jun 21, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Investigations

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Thursday Jun 21, 1962

    On the same day and in the same general location, workers on another boat found a wallet wrapped in plastic complete with names, and addresses, and photos of the Anglins' friends and relatives. On June 21, shreds of raincoat material, believed to be remnants of the raft, were found on a beach not far from the Golden Gate Bridge. The following day, a prison boat picked up a deflated life jacket made from the same material 50 yards (46 m) off of Alcatraz Island. No other physical evidence of the men's fate was ever found. According to the final FBI report, the escapee's raft was never recovered.


  • San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
    Jun, 1962
    Neil Armstrong

    The NACA Medical Exam

    San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
    Jun, 1962

    At Brooks Air Force Base at the end of June, Armstrong underwent a medical exam that many of the applicants described as painful and at times seemingly pointless.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Friday Jun 1, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    sculpting dummy

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Friday Jun 1, 1962

    The men concealed their absence while working outside their cells and after the escape itself by sculpting dummy heads from a home-made paper-mâché-like mixture of soap, toothpaste, concrete dust, and toilet paper, and giving them a realistic appearance with paint from the maintenance shop and hair from the barbershop floor. With towels and clothing piled under the blankets in their bunks and the dummy heads positioned on the pillows, they appeared to be sleeping.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Jun, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Plan Procedures

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Jun, 1962

    Once the holes were wide enough to pass through, the escapees nightly accessed the utility corridor left unguarded directly behind their cells' tier and climbed to the vacant top level of the cellblock, where they set up a clandestine workshop unbeknownst to prison staff. Here, with over fifty raincoats among other stolen and donated materials, they constructed life preservers, based on a design one of them chanced to find in Popular Mechanics, as well as a six-by-fourteen-foot rubber raft, the seams carefully stitched by hand and sealed by steam pipes' heat. Having manufactured the raft, they inflated it with a concertina ingeniously rigged to serve as bellows and furnished the necessary paddles from scrap wood and pilfered screws. Finally, they climbed up a ventilation shaft bound for the roof, and, finding a ponderous fan-grille in the way, removed the rivets holding it in place.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Jun 4, 1962
    Neil Armstrong

    Armstrong applied to become an Astronaut

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Monday Jun 4, 1962

    Armstrong visited the Seattle World's Fair in May 1962, and attended a conference there on space exploration that was co-sponsored by NASA. After he returned from Seattle on June 4, he applied to become an astronaut.


  • Monte Carlo
    Jun, 1962
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill had a fall in Monte Carlo

    Monte Carlo
    Jun, 1962

    In June 1962, when he was 87, Churchill had a fall in Monte Carlo and broke his hip. He was flown home to a London hospital where he remained for three weeks.


  • EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England
    Wednesday Jun 6, 1962
    The Beatles

    Martin's first recording session with the Beatles

    EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England
    Wednesday Jun 6, 1962

    Producer George Martin signed the Beatles to EMI's Parlophone label. His first recording session with the Beatles took place at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London on 6 June 1962. Martin immediately complained to Epstein about Best's poor drumming and suggested they use a session drummer in his place.


  • U.S.
    Thursday Jun 7, 1962
    Marilyn Monroe

    Fox fired Monroe and sued her

    U.S.
    Thursday Jun 7, 1962

    When Monroe was again on sick leave for several days, Fox decided that it could not afford to have another film running behind schedule when it was already struggling to cover the rising costs of Cleopatra (1963). On June 7, Fox fired Monroe and sued her for $750,000 in damages.Fox soon regretted its decision and re-opened negotiations with Monroe later in June.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Inmates

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962

    Frank Lee Morris (September 1, 1926 – disappeared June 11, 1962) was born in Washington, D.C.[19] He was abandoned by his mother and father during his childhood, and orphaned at age 11, The Anglin brothers, John William (May 2, 1930 – disappeared June 11, 1962) and Clarence (May 11, 1931 – disappeared June 11, 1962) were born into a family of thirteen children in Donalsonville, Georgia. Their parents, George Robert Anglin and Rachael Van Miller Anglin, were seasonal farmworkers; in the early 1940s, Allen Clayton West (March 25, 1929 – December 21, 1978) was born in New York City. He was imprisoned for car theft in 1955, first at Atlanta Penitentiary, then at Florida State Prison. After an unsuccessful escape attempt from the Florida facility, he was transferred to Alcatraz in 1957 and became inmate AZ1335.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Beginning The Escape

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962

    On the night of June 11, 1962, with all preparations in place, the men began their escape. However, the cement employed to shore up crumbling concrete around West's vent had hardened, diminishing the hole in size and fixing the grill in place. By the time he managed to remove the grill and re-widen the hole to egress, the others had already left, as he was soon to discover; he busted out to the prison roof only to return to his cell around sunrise and go to sleep. West went on to cooperate fully with investigators and give them a detailed description of the escape plan, in consequence of which he was not punished for his role in it.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962
    10 PM
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Executing The Plan

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Monday Jun 11, 1962
    10 PM

    From the service corridor, Morris and the Anglins climbed the ventilation shaft to the roof. Guards heard a loud crash as they broke out of the shaft, but since nothing further was heard, the source of the noise was not investigated. Hauling their gear with them, they descended 50 feet (15 m) to the ground by sliding down a kitchen vent pipe, then climbed two 12-foot (3.7 m) barbed-wire perimeter fences. At the northeast shoreline, near the power plant—a blind spot in the prison's network of searchlights and gun towers they inflated their raft with the concertina. At some time after 10 p.m., investigators estimated, they boarded the raft, launched it and departed toward their objective, Angel Island, two miles to the north.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Discovery of the escape

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Tuesday Jun 12, 1962

    The escape was not discovered until the morning of June 12, 1962, due to the successful dummy head ruse. At the time of the escape, Warden Olin G. Blackwell was on vacation in Lake Berryessa in Napa County, California, and he did not believe the men could have survived the waters and make it to shore. In a joint effort, multiple military and law-enforcement agencies conducted extensive air, sea, and land search over the next 10 days. On June 14, a Coast Guard cutter picked up a paddle floating about 200 yards (180 m) off the southern shore of Angel Island.


  • Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Ñuñoa, Chile
    Sunday Jun 17, 1962
    Pelé

    1962 World Cup

    Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Ñuñoa, Chile
    Sunday Jun 17, 1962

    When the 1962 World Cup started, Pelé was the best rated player in the world. In the first match of the 1962 World Cup in Chile, against Mexico, Pelé assisted the first goal and then scored the second one, after a run past four defenders, to go up 2–0. He injured himself in the next game while attempting a long-range shot against Czechoslovakia. This would keep him out of the rest of the tournament.


  • Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Thursday Jun 21, 1962
    June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt: Escape from Alcatraz

    Investigations

    Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA
    Thursday Jun 21, 1962

    On the same day and in the same general location, workers on another boat found a wallet wrapped in plastic complete with names, and addresses, and photos of the Anglins' friends and relatives. On June 21, shreds of raincoat material, believed to be remnants of the raft, were found on a beach not far from the Golden Gate Bridge. The following day, a prison boat picked up a deflated life jacket made from the same material 50 yards (46 m) off of Alcatraz Island. No other physical evidence of the men's fate was ever found. According to the final FBI report, the escapee's raft was never recovered.


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