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Min Chen Yi acknowledges science lag, int on Swiss radio
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US, GB and Belgium seen greatly increasing their aid programs as part of 21-point plan of inducements and pressures to force Katanga acceptance of Const; details
Rusk to start round of talks with USSR Amb Dobrynin; impasse discussed; speculation includes possible Khrushchev appearance at UN Assembly meeting; W Berliners expect new Communist move; new explosion causes small hole in wall
clandestine broadcast directed to Viet Cong reveals rebel leaders concern over defeat by Govt troops in July 20 action, 1st such admission
1962Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-American basketball player and coach[†]
Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. is a Jamaican-American basketball coach and former professional player who is a basketball ambassador for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he played most of his career as the starting center before ending his playing career with brief stints with the Seattle SuperSonics and Orlando Magic. Ewing is regarded as one of the greatest centers of all time, playing a dominant role in the New York Knicks' 1990s success.
1962Otis Thorpe, American basketball player[†]
Otis Henry Thorpe is an American former professional basketball player who played for several teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an NBA All-Star in 1992 and won an NBA championship with the Houston Rockets in 1994.
1962Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.[†]
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. Under this minoritarian system, white citizens held the highest status, followed by Indians, Coloureds and black Africans, in that order. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day, particularly inequality.
1962American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.[†]
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million by her death in 1962.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]