America - 1962AD
In 1962AD:
The University of Mississippi was forced to admit black student James Meredith.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school prayers are a violation of the 1st Amendment.
Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
The U.S. launched Telstar, the first commercial communications satellite.
The Mariner 2 spacecraft passed within 21,598 miles of Venus.
Rachel Carson criticized indiscriminate use of pesticides in her book
Silent Spring
.
American historian Barbara Tuchman published
The Guns of August
.
Sonny Liston defeated Floyd Patterson to become heavyweight boxing champion.
Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scored a record 100 points in one game.
American artist Jim Dine painted the pop art subject
Black Saw
.
Pop artist Andy Warhol began making silk screen prints of mass-media images.
Folk-rock singer and composer Bob Dylan wrote
Blowin' in the Wind
.
Television journalist Walter Cronkite was made anchorman of CBS Evening News.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor starred in
Cleopatra
, the most expensive film to date.
American film actress Marilyn Monroe died from a drug overdose.
Edward Albee's play
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
was produced on Broadway.
American writer Ken Kesey published
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
.
American writer Katherine Anne Porter published the novel
Ship of Fools
.
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