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US indus concerned over crisis in Caribbean, through which pass most bauxite shipments to US
Dartmouth beat Harvard to remain unbeaten in the Ivy League. Scores of leading games:
Govs Conf CD com meets, Washington; illus; Kennedy urges accelerated program; assured of com backing in crisis; Wagner sets TV rept on CD
Mex backs Kennedy on neutralization of missile bases; some officials shocked at USSR admission it controls bases; Argentine Cabinet meets; Bolivia reiterates non-intervention stand
1962Erik Thorstvedt, Norwegian footballer and manager[†]
Erik Thorstvedt is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He won 97 caps for the Norway national team, and was the starter in goal at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He played for Viking, Eik-Tønsberg, Borussia Mönchengladbach, IFK Göteborg and Tottenham Hotspur.
1962Daphne Zuniga, American actress[†]
Daphne Eurydice Zuniga is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1982 slasher film The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982) at the age of 19, followed by a lead role in another slasher film The Initiation (1984) two years later.
1962The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.[†]
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war.
In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]