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unusual facts about New South Wales state election, 1962



1961 Academy Awards

34th Academy Awards, the 1962 ceremony honoring the best in film for 1961

1993 Asian Baseball Championship

The tournament was won by defending champions Japan; their eleventh Asian Championship and their third consecutive title, equalling the record they set in two separate sequences previously: 1955-1959-1962 and 1965-1967-1967.

20N

New York State Route 20N, decommissioned in 1962 which stretched from the town of Marcellus to the village of Cazenovia

Academy of Journalism and Communication

The Academy of Journalism and Communication was established in January 16, 1962 by Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam, unified from 3 different schools: Nguyen Ai Quoc School campus 2, School of Propagandizing and Educating and People University.

Appleby-in-Westmorland

Appleby East station, built by the North Eastern Railway was nearby; it closed in 1962 but retains the potential for connection to the Eden Valley Railway.

Benedicto Caldarella

He won in his only Grand Prix race at the 1962 500cc Argentine Grand Prix.

Bill Ely

His career came to an end at the 1932 election, amidst Labor's heavy defeat after Lang was sacked as Premier by Governor Philip Game; one of many Labor MPs to lose their seats, Ely was defeated by United Australia Party candidate Claude Fleck.

Brian Statham

He overtook Alec Bedser's record of 236 Test wickets in the Fourth Test at the Adelaide Oval in 1962–63.

Bruno Maag

Bruno Maag (born 1962) is a Swiss type designer and founder of type design company Dalton Maag.

Charleston Charlies

This club - Charleston's second Triple-A franchise - stayed only those few months and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1962 season to become the Atlanta Crackers.

Christophe Cuvillier

Christophe Cuvillier (born December 5, 1962 in Etterbeek) is a French businessman and current chief executive officer of the European real-estate group Unibail-Rodamco.

DB Class 10

Up to 1962 they were allocated to Bebra locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw), before being transferred to Bw Kassel where they worked alongside the DRG Class 01.10s until 20 March 1967 heading fast-stopping and express trains to and from Gießen.

Delorhynchus

It was first named by the paleontologist R. C. Fox in 1962 and the type species is Delorhynchus priscus.

Dragunov sniper rifle

In 1962, the state armory in Izhevsk developed the Medved (Bear) rifle, initially chambered first in the 9x53mm cartridge and later in the 7.62x51mm NATO round for export.

Edward Francis Hutton

Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 in New York City – July 11, 1962 in Westbury, Long Island, New York) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.

Frank Eyton

Frank Eyton (30 August 1894 – 11 November 1962) was an English popular music lyricist best known for co-writing the lyrics of Johnny Green's "Body and Soul" (1930) with Edward Heyman and Robert Sour.

G. J. Renier

Gustaaf Johannes Petrus Renier (25 September 1892, Flushing – 1 September 1962, Twickenham) was professor of Dutch History at University College London.

Georges-Paul Wagner

He has defended in court Jean-Marie Le Pen, as well as members of the OAS terrorist movement who tried to assassinate General Charles de Gaulle at Le Petit-Clamart in 1962.

Guy Fithen

Guy L. Fithen (born 1962 in Oxford) is a British actor and screenwriter best known for his roles as a pirate.

Harold Shearman

He was Chairman of the London County Council and subsequently first Chairman from 1964-66 of the Greater London Council, Chairman of the Inner London Educational Authortiy, President from 1962-71 of the School Journey Association, and a member of the Robbins Committee.

Heinz Bosl

After graduating in 1962 Bosl became a full time member of the Bavarian State Ballet company and in 1965 he started as a soloist.

Higgins Armory Museum

Norman Rockwell drew an imagined scene in the Higgins armory museum, titled Midnight Snack, for the November 3, 1962 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing

Jimmy Dean's 1962 song "Steel Men" is a ballad about the Second Narrows bridge disaster.

Jan Staaf

Jan Egon Staaf (born January 11, 1962 in Kisa, Östergötland) is a retired male race walker from Sweden.

Jeffrey Gorton

Jeffrey Wayne Gorton (born November 1, 1962) is an American murderer and rapist, who was convicted in 2002 of the rape and murder of flight attendant Nancy Ludwig on February 17, 1991 at the Hilton hotel in Romulus, Michigan.

Jiří Jirmal

He contributed the musical background for Gene Deitch's 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoon Tall in the Trap, in which he was credited as George Jirmal.

Joe Dial

Joe Dial (born 26 October 1962 in Marlow, Oklahoma) is a retired American pole vaulter, best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

Kaiser Jeep

In 1962, Willys introduced the Jeep Wagoneer as a 1963 model to replace the 1940s-style Jeep station wagons.

Karl Heeremans

From this time on, numerous awards and recognitions were presented to him, such as the 1964 - price of Namur, Belgium 1962–1967 Italian Olivetti, Knokke and Ronse, Belgium and Cannes, France.

King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse

Wright designed the house for Arthur Miller's wife, Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), but Miller and Monroe divorced soon after and the project was abandoned.

Lawrence Kasha

Kasha had directed a season of summer stock productions at the Colonie Summer Theatre in Latham, New York in 1959, but his first major directing assignment came in 1962 with Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella at the O'Keefe Center in Toronto.

Mich d'Avray

Jean-Michel (Mich) d'Avray (born 19 February 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a former professional association footballer who spent the majority of his playing career at Ipswich Town.

Michalis Kritikopoulos

Born in Kaisariani, Kritikopoulos began playing football as a striker for local side G.S. Kaisariani in 1962.

Michelle Khan

Michelle Yeoh (born 1962), credited as Michelle Khan in some of her earlier films

Ming Cho Lee

Lee's first Broadway play as Scenic Designer was "The Moon Besieged" in 1962; he went on to design the sets for over 20 Broadway shows, including Mother Courage and Her Children, King Lear, The Glass Menagerie, The Shadow Box, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

Office of Public Safety

The head of the OPS, Byron Engle, sent Los Angeles Police Department officers to Venezuela in 1962 to train local police officers and assist them in repression against the Armed Forces of National Liberation (AFNL).

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

He married Anne Howard, daughter of Peter Howard, in 1962 and became involved through Howard in Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament (MRA) movement, which attracted much negative comment.

Robin Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham

Maugham bought the merchant ship MV Joyita as a hulk in the early 1960s, writing about the mystery of the incident in his book The Joyita Mystery (1962).

Rufus Phillips

Phillips was a protégé of General Edward Lansdale and participated in the 1962 RAND Counterinsurgency Symposium alongside other counterinsurgency experts such as David Galula and Frank Kitson.

Rusty Wailes

John had been a member of the Moral Re-Armament show 'Space is so Startling' (recording year 1962).

San Martín de Porres District

In 1962, after the canonization of St. Martin de Porras, the name of the district was changed to its current name.

Santiago Ostolaza

Santiago Javier Ostolaza Sosa (born July 10, 1962 in Dolores, Soriano) is an Uruguayan former football midfielder and current manager.

Some Other Guy

The song was part of The Beatles' live repertoire in 1962-63, and a recording was made on 19 June 1963 during a live BBC radio performance by the band at The Playhouse Theatre, London.

Sverre Andersen

He won goalkeeper of the year in 1962, 1963, 1965 and 1968 in the VG Awards.

Tanganyika District

From July 11, 1962 to December 28, 1966, this area was known as the province of Nord-Katanga, but the administration of the province was taken over in 1966 by the central government, and it was finally merged into the restored Katanga Province by the Mobutu government.

The Bosstones

In 1962 The Dovells remade "Mope-itty Mope" as "The Mope-itty Mope Stomp".

Tim Hitchens

Timothy Mark Hitchens, CMG, LVO (born 1962) is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999-2002.

Tommy Norden

Other performances include a minor role in the film Five Miles to Midnight (1962), as well as roles on the TV series Naked City (1961), Search for Tomorrow (1971–1973), where he played Dr. Gary Walton and The Secrets of Isis.

Tylman

Stanley D. Tylman (1893–1982), professor of dentistry (1920–1962), University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry

Universidad Central del Este

UCE was founded at a time in which the Dominican Republic only counted with a handful of other universities nationwide, which included the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD), founded by Pope Paul III in 1538; the Catholic University Mother and Teacher (now Pontifical) founded in Santiago in 1962; and the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), founded in 1966.


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