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'62 Nobel Med Prize to Prof Watson (US) and Drs Wilkins and Crick (GB) for discovery of molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid
Slays wife, is wounded by police; attempts suicide
USN assignment of jet fighters to S Fla linked to disclosures of USSR MIGs in Cuba
Fed Reserve eases money mkt by cutting some reserve requirements; concern over econ lag linked; background, likely effects discussed
TRENTON, Oct, 18--Gov. Richard J. Hughes ordered tonight a suspension of all state controls over milk prices.
1962Claude Callegari, English YouTube personality (died 2021)[†]
Claudio Luciano Ricardo Callegari was an English Arsenal supporter and a contributor to the football YouTube channel AFTV. He made his first appearance in 2012 before becoming a regular until 2020. He died on 29 March 2021.
1962Tracy Chevalier, American-English author[†]
Tracy Rose Chevalier is an American-British novelist. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
1962Brian Henninger, American golfer[†]
Brian Hatfield Henninger is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He has won two tournaments on the PGA Tour and three on the Nationwide Tour.
1962Bendik Hofseth, Norwegian saxophonist and composer[†]
Bendik Hofseth is a Norwegian jazz musician, who plays the saxophone and sings. He is also a bandleader, and arranges and composes music.
1962Evander Holyfield, American boxer and actor[†]
Evander Holyfield is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion in the cruiserweight division in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three-belt era", a feat later surpassed by Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk, who became two-weight undisputed champions in the four-belt era. Nicknamed "the Real Deal", Holyfield is the only four-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unified World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles from 1990 to 1992, the WBA and IBF titles again from 1993 to 1994, the WBA title a third time from 1996 to 1999; the IBF title a third time from 1997 to 1999 and the WBA title for a fourth time from 2000 to 2001.
1962Svetlana Zainetdinova, Soviet-Estonian chess player and coach[†]
Svetlana Zainetdinova is an Estonian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master and ICCF title of Lady Grandmaster.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]