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St Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan: small bomb thrown outside Cardinal Spellman residence at 1:45 AM shatters windows but causes no injury; details
HR unanimously approves 'fight-if-necessary' resolution; Brandt and Kennedy conf on crisis
US asst naval attache Comdr R D Smith expelled for spying while on visit to Leningrad; US denies charge; charges he was 'roughed up'; Western officials view action as reprisal for US expulsion of 2 USSR diplomats at UN
Vietcong troops attack S Vietnamese task force of over 1,000, kill US Army helicopter crewman, cripple entire S Vietnam co, Ap My Luong; 100 guerrillas reptd killed
HR accepts compromise
1962David Baker, American biologist and academic[†]
David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures. He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He was awarded the shared 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design.
1962Rich Yett, American baseball player[†]
Richard Martin Yett is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball from 1985 to 1990.
1962Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (born 1880)[†]
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 genres between 1915 and 1939, but was primarily known for horror films. Browning was often cited in the trade press as "the Edgar Allan Poe of cinema."
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]