1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
The next stage, an 18.5 km (11 mi) mountain time trial, was won by Bahamontes with a time of 47 min 23 s. Simpson placed 31st and lost the lead to Jef Planckaert of Flandria, who came in second place, 1 min 25 s down. Anquetil finished a further three seconds behind in third and sat fourth overall. Planckaert had taken over the leadership of Flandria after the departure of Van Looy, with former race leader Schroeders pledging his support. He was considered an able substitute due to his form during the season leading up to the Tour, winning the stage races Paris–Nice and the Tour de Luxembourg and the one-day classic Liège–Bastogne–Liège.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
The final Pyrenean stage, the fourteenth, saw Saint-Raphaël rider Jean Stablinski attack his 10-strong breakaway with 25 km (16 mi) remaining and solo to the finish in Carcassonne with a margin of twelve seconds. The first of the three transitional stages, fifteen, that crossed France's southern coastline ended in a bunch sprint won by Vannitsen. In stage sixteen, Daems and Bailetti escaped the peloton with 60 km (37 mi) to go, with Daems attacking to win with a margin of three minutes; the chasing group of seven came in eight minutes later. Altig won the seventeenth stage in a sprint from a four-rider breakaway that finished over six minutes ahead of the peloton.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
In the first of the two Alpine stages, the eighteenth, attacks were expected. Instead, the riders went at a slow pace; in the first four hours, they had only raced 100 km (62 mi). Later, some attacks took place, but they failed because of punctured tyres and the defensive tactics of the leading riders; in the end, Daems, who was a sprinter and not a climber, was able to win this mountain stage. Poulidor's injured hand was better by stage nineteen, and his team manager told him it was time to attack.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
He was placed ninth in the general classification, ten minutes behind, so he would have not likely been seen as a threat. Attacking over the final climbs, he soloed to the finish at Aix-les-Bains with an advantage of more than three minutes over his rivals, moving him to third place overall, 5 min 43 s in arrears, with Planckaert still leading and Anquetil second, 1 min 8 s down.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
In stage twenty, a 68 km (42 mi) individual time trial finishing in Lyon, Planckaert came in fourth place, losing 5 min 19 s to the winner, Anquetil, who took the overall lead. Anquetil was a time trial specialist and considered unbeatable at the time. Baldini placed second, 2 min 59 s off the time set by Anquetil, and third was Poulidor who came in 5 min 1 s down to keep his third place overall. Stage 21 ended in a bunch sprint won by Dino Bruni of Gazzola.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
In the final stage, Benedetti gained his second victory of the race from a bunch sprint in front of an estimated crowd of 30,000 at Parc des Princes. Anquetil finished the race to claim his third Tour de France, equalling the record number of Tour wins by a rider with Belgian Philippe Thys and Frenchman Louison Bobet. It was revealed later that Anquetil had ridden the race with tapeworm. He beat second-placed Planckaert by 4 min 59 s, with Poulidor third, a further 5 min 25 s down.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and finale
Altig won the points classification with a total of 173, which was 29 ahead of Daems in second. Bahamontes won the mountains classification with 137 points, 60 ahead of second-placed Imerio Massignan (Legnano–Pirelli). Saint-Raphaël won the team classification, which they led from the opening stage, with Mercier coming second and Flandria third. The riders with the most stages wins were Altig and Daems, with three each. The total number of riders who finished the race was 94, a record high to that point.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
During the night after the thirteenth stage, pre-race outsider Hans Junkermann became ill. He was placed seventh in the general classification, and the following day, stage fourteen, his team requested the start be delayed, which the organisation allowed. He was dropped by the peloton on the first climb 50 km (31 mi) in, and abandoned the race, saying "bad fish" was the cause. Fourteen riders withdrew from the Tour that day, all blaming food poisoning from rotten fish at the same hotel, including the former general classification leader Willy Schroeder and another pre-race contender Gastone Nencini.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
Writing in the French sports newspaper L'Équipe, the Tour's race director, Jacques Goddet, said he did not believe their excuse and believed they had doped to recover time lost in the previous stage's time trial. Nothing was proven, although the hotel said they did not serve fish that night. A communiqué released by the Pierre Dumas warned that if riders and their soigneurs did not stop "certain forms of preparation," there would be daily post-stage hotel room inspections.


1962 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping
Upset by this and doping accusations in the press, the riders threatened a fifteen-minute strike, but the journalist Jean Bobet, a former cyclist, was able to talk them into continuing, although he later provided the commentary for the documentary film about the 1962 Tour, Vive le Tour by Louis Malle, which ridiculed the riders and their "bad fish" explanation. In the following days, Dumas began to organise the inaugural European Conference on Doping and the Biological Preparation of the Competitive Athlete, which took place in January 1963. Since four of the riders involved came from Wiel's–Groene Leeuw, more than from any other team, the scandal is referred to as the "Wiel's affair".


1962 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were three main individual classifications contested in the 1962 Tour de France, two of which award jerseys to their leaders, and also a team competition. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses (time subtracted) were awarded to the top two positions at the end of every stage, including the individual time trials, but not the team time trial; first place received one minute and second place got 30 seconds. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Tour. The rider leading the classification wore a yellow jersey.


1962 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In the points classification, riders were awarded points for finishing in the top fifteen places on each stage. The first rider at each stage finish was awarded 25 points, the second 20 points, the third 16 points, the fourth 14 points, the fifth 12 points, the sixth 10 points, down to one point for the rider in fifteenth. The classification leader was identified by a green jersey.


1962 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The mountains classification awarded points to the riders who reached summits first. Most stages of the race included one or more of these climbs, categorised as fourth-, third-, second- or first-category, with the more difficult climbs rated lower. The calculation for the mountains classification was changed in 1962, and the fourth category was added. The leader of the classification was not identified by a jersey.


1962 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The classification for the teams was calculated by adding together the times of the first three cyclists of a team on each stage; the team with the lowest combined time on a stage won one first place point. To determine placings in the overall team classification, second and third place points were also awarded. The split stages (two and eight) were each combined. The riders on the team who led this classification were identified with yellow caps.


1962 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In addition, there was a combativity award given after each stage to the most aggressive rider; the decision was made by a jury composed of journalists. The split stages each had a combined winner. At the conclusion of the Tour, Eddy Pauwels won the overall super-combativity award, also decided by journalists. Similar to the award for most combative rider, there was an award for the unluckiest rider given after every stage. The award for most bad luck during the entire Tour went to Rik Van Looy. Two further individual awards were given at the end of the Tour, the Prix Alex Virot, awarded to Raymond Poulidor for being the most loyal rider in the race, determined by a jury, and the Prix René Dunan, awarded to the 22-year-old Giorgo Zancanaro (Philco) for being the youngest finisher.


1962 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
A total of 3,000,000 French new francs (NF) was awarded in cash prizes in the race, with the overall winner of the general classification receiving 200,000 NF. The points and mountains classification winners got 100,000 NF and 50,000 NF respectively. The team classification winners were given 300,000 NF. The winner of the super-combativity award winner was given 60,000 NF and a Renault R8 car, and the unluckiest rider overall got 20,000 NF. The Prix Alex Virot was given 25,000 NF and the Prix René Dunan got 20,000 NF. There was also a special award with a prize of 3,000 NF, the Souvenir Henri Desgrange, given to the first rider to pass the summit of the 2,058 m (6,752 ft)-high Col du Lautaret on stage nineteen. This prize was won by Juan Campillo of Margnat.


1962 Tour de France, Super Prestige Pernod ranking
Riders in the Tour competed individually for points that contributed towards the Super Prestige Pernod ranking, an international season-long road cycling competition, with the winner seen as the best all-round rider. The 90 points accrued by Jacques Anquetil moved him from outside the ranking to fourth place, whilst Jef Planckaert climbed from third position to take the lead from former leader Rik Van Looy.


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10
The 1962 Tour de France was the 49th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between from 24 June and 15 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4,274 km (2,656 mi). After more than 30 years, the Tour was again contested by trade teams. Frenchman Jacques Anquetil defended his title, winning his third Tour de France.


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 1
24 June 1962 — Nancy to Spa (Belgium), 253 km (157 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 2a
25 June 1962 — Spa (Belgium) to Herentals (Belgium), 147 km (91 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 2b
25 June 1962 — Herentals (Belgium), 23 km (14 mi) (TTT)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 3
26 June 1962 — Brussels to Amiens, 210 km (130 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 4
27 June 1962 — Amiens to Le Havre, 196.5 km (122.1 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 5
28 June 1962 — Pont l'Evêque to Saint-Malo, 215 km (134 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 6
29 June 1962 — Dinard to Brest, 235.5 km (146.3 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 7
30 June 1962 — Quimper to Saint-Nazaire, 201 km (125 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 8a
1 July 1962 — Saint-Nazaire to Luçon, 155 km (96 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 8b
1 July 1962 — Luçon to La Rochelle, 43 km (27 mi) (ITT)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 9
2 July 1962 — La Rochelle to Bordeaux, 214 km (133 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 10
3 July 1962 — Bordeaux to Bayonne, 184.5 km (114.6 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22
The 1962 Tour de France was the 49th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between from 24 June and 15 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4,274 km (2,656 mi). After more than 30 years, the Tour was again contested by trade teams. Frenchman Jacques Anquetil defended his title, winning his third Tour de France.


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 11
4 July 1962 — Bayonne to Pau, 155.5 km (96.6 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 12
5 July 1962 — Pau to Saint-Gaudens, 207.5 km (128.9 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 13
6 July 1962 — Luchon to Superbagnères, 18.5 km (11.5 mi) (ITT)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 14
7 July 1962 — Luchon to Carcassonne, 215 km (134 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 15
8 July 1962 — Carcassonne to Montpellier, 196.5 km (122.1 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 16
9 July 1962 — Montpellier to Aix-en-Provence, 185 km (115 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 17
10 July 1962 — Aix-en-Provence to Antibes, 201 km (125 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 18
11 July 1962 — Antibes to Briançon, 241.5 km (150.1 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 19
12 July 1962 — Briançon to Aix-les-Bains, 204.5 km (127.1 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 20
13 July 1962 — Bourgoin to Lyon, 68 km (42 mi) (ITT)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 21
14 July 1962 — Lyon to Nevers, 232 km (144 mi)


1962 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 22, Stage 22
15 July 1962 — Nevers to Paris, 271 km (168 mi)


1962 Tour de Hongrie
The 1962 Tour de Hongrie was the 18th edition of the Tour de Hongrie cycle race and was held from 30 June to 8 July 1962. The race started and finished in Budapest. The race was won by Adolf Christian.


1962 Tour de Romandie
The 1962 Tour de Romandie was the 16th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 10 May to 13 May 1962. The race started and finished in Geneva. The race was won by Guido De Rosso.


1962 Tour de Suisse
The 1962 Tour de Suisse was the 26th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 14 June to 20 June 1962. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Hans Junkermann of the Torpedo team.


1962 Tour of Flanders
The 46th Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 1 April 1962. It was won by Belgian Rik Van Looy after an ultimate solo attack in Wetteren. 48 of 151 riders finished.


1962 Tour of Flanders, Route
The race started in Ghent and finished in Gentbrugge for the first time – covering 254 km. The finish was on the Emile Verhaerenlaan, where riders had to finish an additional 2.3 km lap. There were six categorized climbs:


1962 Tulane Green Wave football team
The 1962 Tulane Green Wave football team was an American football team that represented Tulane University during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Southeastern Conference. In their first year under head coach Tommy O'Boyle, the team compiled an 0–10 record.


1962 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1962 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their second year under head coach Glenn Dobbs, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 5–5 record (3–0 against Missouri Valley Conference opponents) and won the conference championship. The team's statistical leaders included Stu McBirnie with 1,169 passing yards, Hank Dorsch with 250 rushing yards, and John Simmons with 860 receiving yards.


1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash
The 1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash occurred on 8 March 1962 at 17:43 local time (15:43 UTC) when a Turkish Airlines Fairchild F-27 airliner, registration TC-KOP, on a scheduled domestic flight from Esenboğa Airport (ESB/LTAC) in Ankara to Adana Airport (ADA/LTAF), flew into the Bolkar Mountains on approach to landing.


1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash, Accident
The Turkish Airlines F-27 departed from Esenboğa Airport at 16:20 EET (14:20 UTC) for a flight to Adana. The pilot reported en route passing Aksaray and estimated to arrive in Adana at 17:40 local time. At 17:28, the pilot reported at FL175 and requested a clearance to approach. At 17:40 the flight was cleared to 5,000 ft (1,500 m) and was asked to report crossing 8,000 ft (2,400 m) and 7,000 ft (2,100 m). Nothing more was heard from the flight. It appeared the plane had crashed at 6,800 ft (2,100 m) AMSL some 76 km (47 mi) from the Adana radio range at Bolkar Mountains of southeastern Taurus mountain range.


1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash, Accident
The probable cause of the accident was that the pilot was unable to keep track of his exact position or to maintain exact altitude in avoiding cumulus cloud, and associated turbulent conditions.


1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash, Crew and passengers
The aircraft had three crew and eight passengers on board. All crew and passengers lost their lives at the crash.


1962 Turkish Airlines Taurus Mountains crash, Aircraft
The aircraft, a Fairchild F-27 with two Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop engines, was produced by Fairchild Hiller with manufacturer serial number 83, and made its first flight in 1960.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt
The 1962 attempted coup in Turkey (also known as the February 22 Incident) was led by the Commander of the Turkish Military Academy, Staff Colonel tr:Talat Aydemir and his associates, who were opposed to the democratically elected government in Turkey. Despite taking control of much of Ankara, the coup leaders quickly realised they could not prevail and surrendered without any loss of life occurring. Talat Aydemir went on to lead a further coup attempt in 1963.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, The Armed Forces Union
Following the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, the military National Unity Committee (MBK) purged the formerly governing Democrat Party, oversaw the drafting of a new constitution and returned power to elected civilian authorities. Nevertheless there were groups of junior officers who felt that the direction taken by the MBK was wrong, particularly after it had dismissed “the fourteen” hardline coup supporters on 13 November 1960.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, The Armed Forces Union
Following the dismissal of the fourteen hardliners, the High Command continued to steadily remove officers whom it regarded as unreliable, and to make new appointments of those who would not oppose the return to democracy. While the process of handing over power from the army to the civilian authorities was underway, there were several indications of growing dissent. One was the creation of the Armed Forces Union (Turkish: Silahlı Kuvvetler Birliği) late in 1960 as a voice for officers pressing for a more radical policy. Its membership and aims were unclear and its existence at the time was little known outside the armed forces themselves.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, June - July 1961
Tension between the MBK and the Armed Forces Union first became public in June 1961, when airforce commander Irfan Tansel was removed from his military post and sent to Washington DC as an adviser to Turkey’s military mission. There were rumours of a number of other dismissals and appointments, and Talat Aydemir was one of a group of officers who met in Ankara to agree a six-point protocol which they sent to the General Staff, demanding the reinstatement of Tansel, the cancellation of other dismissals and promotions, and no future interference from the MBK in military appointments. A squadron of jet fighters flew over Ankara to emphasise the seriousness of the Armed Forces Union’s intentions.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, June - July 1961
Faced with this show of determination, the MBK agreed to the demands of the Armed Forces Union, but decided to also to issue a statement, through the General Staff, to all members of the armed forces. This statement, issued on 28 June 1961, offered assurances that the planned civilian regime would not be able to take action against the coup leaders of 1960, and that the sentences of the Yassıada trials would be carried out promptly.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, June - July 1961
In July, the junior officers’ concerns were increased when, in the referendum, the new military-approved constitution was only approved by 61.7% of voters. Following this, on 25 August 1961 members of the Armed Forces Union were required to swear an oath to support the work of the MBK.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, The October Protocol
In the October 1961 elections the Republican People's Party failed to win an outright majority and incoming prime minister İsmet İnönü was obliged to form a coalition government with the newly formed Justice Party, which effectively reconstituted the Democrat Party that had been removed from power by the 1960 coup. Overall, the majority of votes had gone to parties that claimed to be successors of the Democrats.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, The October Protocol
The general election result prompted Talat Aydemir and his associates to begin mobilising their supporters to use force to prevent the return to civilian rule. On 21 October 1961 a large meeting was held at the Turkish Military Academy in Istanbul, following which 10 Generals and 28 Colonels signed what became known as the October Protocol. According to this protocol, the military was to intervene before the newly elected Grand National Assembly of Turkey was convened - no later than 25 October 1961. However, those who signed it had no means of implementing it without the active support of senior officers.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, The October Protocol
Instead of supporting the junior officers, the army High Command intervened to oblige the leaders of the four largest parties to sign the Çankaya Protocol, guaranteeing the continuation of the reforms instituted after the coup, granting immunity to those who had led it, and agreeing not to stand any candidates for the presidency against Cemal Gürsel. The junior officers were unable to do anything to prevent the recently-elected coalition government from taking power.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, The October Protocol
Once the civilian government was installed, the concerns of Aydemir and his colleagues seemed well-founded. Politicians who had been removed from office by the 1960 coup were preparing to make a rapid return to public life: the newly formed Justice Party began examining possible grounds for the pardon of those still held in detention after the Yassiada trials. A particular flashpoint was the funeral of the Democrat Party's Minister of National Education, Tevfik İleri which saw young people protesting against the coup for the first time and demanding the release of political prisoners.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, January - February 1962
A grouping of military officers known as the "Extended Command Council" (Turkish: Genişletilmiş Komuta Konseyi) met at the General Staff Headquarters on 19 January 1962 to discuss a proposal from Chief of the General Staff Cevdet Sunay that they should abandon any thought of staging a military intervention and instead rally behind the government of İsmet İnönü. The Generals and Commanders at that meeting supported Sunay's proposal but Talat Aydemir and the Colonels who attended stated that they did not agree and that a military intervention was necessary. However, without the support of the Generals, especially the Chief of the General Staff, they would have been acting outside the chain of command if they tried to move on their own.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, January - February 1962
Prime Minister İnönü decided to try and defuse the tensions within the army by visiting military units in Istanbul and Ankara. He first visited the 66th Division Command and the War Academies in Istanbul. At the units he went to, he advised the officers to remain calm and patient, making clear that he did not support any action by them. This undermined the plans of those officers who believed that they should seize power in order to offer him their support. On February 5, 1962, he went to visit the Military Academy in Ankara, and no one received him other than the commanders and the inspection unit.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, January - February 1962
On 9 February Lieutenant General tr:Refik Tulga convened a meeting in Balmumcu, Istanbul, that was attended by 59 officers. Thirty seven of those attending, including Talat Aydemir, agreed on the need to carry out a military intervention before 28 February. Cevdet Sunay however refused to support overthrowing the government as long as Inönü, Atatürk’s deputy, remained prime minister.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, January - February 1962
Instead, Sunay alerted İnönü to what Talat Aydemir and the other junior officers were planning. On February 18, 1962, Sunay also summoned the Corps Commanders of the 1st Army, the Governor of Istanbul, Lieutenant General Refik Tulga, the Commander of the War Academies Brigadier General tr:Faruk Güventürk and the Commander of the War Fleet to Ankara. These generals had previously met with Talat Aydemir and other radical colonels, and made clear that they would not agree to support a new coup.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Background, January - February 1962
On February 19, 1962, Sunay also summoned Talat Aydemir, Necati Ünsalan and Selçuk Atakan to the General Staff Headquarters. Air Force Commander İrfan Tansel, Land Forces Commander Muhittin Önür and Gendarmerie General Commander Abdurrahman Doruk Pasha were waiting for them here, but they were still unable to persuade the colonels to give up their plans. There now seemed no alternative but for the government and the High Command to take action against them.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, False alarm, 20 February 1962
Rumours began to spread through the army that Talat Aydemir and his associates were going to stage their coup on the night of February 20-21. In response, officers in the Etimesgut Armored Units School First Armoured Division Tank Battalion placed their troops on alert. Likewise, sections of the 229th Infantry Regiment and the Guard Regiment also prepared to join the coup. By the following morning it was clear that the rumour was unfounded.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, False alarm, 20 February 1962
Cevdet Sunay was enraged when he heard what had happened the previous night. He summoned Talat Aydemir and two other officers to General Staff Headquarters and advised them that they would immediately be transferred to new posts away from the capital, although Aydemir denied any wrongdoing or involvement in the previous night’s events. At a meeting of the General Staff later on February 21, and orders were given for the transfer of officers causing unrest to units in the East. The list of names included including Selçuk Atakan, Emin Arat, İhsan Erkan, Haldun Doran and Şükrü İlkin (commander of the Presidential Guard Regiment) as well as Talat Aydemir


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, Uprising
When Aydemir learned that the transfer order had been issued, he gathered about 600 recent graduates of the Military Academy and made a speech to them at 3pm, explaining the events of recent days. In his speech, Aydemir said:


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, Uprising
“May 27 [i.e. the 1960 coup] failed to reach its goal. Parliament is not working. The army is being criticised. Now commanders are sent East to break up  the forces at the ready. Our plans are ready, the army is with us. Our password is ‘Halaskar’ and our sign is ‘Fedailer’... If this action does not succeed, I will commit suicide.”


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, Uprising
The expressions chosen as passwords and signs alluded to Enver Pasha and the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état that took place outside the chain of command.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, Uprising
The graduates agreed to support him and prepared to fight. The units that had responded to the false rumour on 19th February did not join in this time, as they had new officers in command. Nevertheless Aydemir sent tanks from Military Academy towards the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The government placed anti-tank guns around the building. Soldiers from the barracks in Polatlı and Çubuk were called in to help break the siege, but all of the battalions called to suppress the coup sided with Talat Aydemir and declared their loyalty to him.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, Uprising
On the morning of 22 February the battalion guarding the parliament building went over to the rebels units loyal to Aydemir were effectively in control of central Ankara, including the radio station. Critically however, the Air Force remained loyal to the government, and this was to prove decisive. With unchallenged air superiority, İsmet Inönü’s government made preparations to bomb the Army War College with jets from the Murted airbase.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, Uprising
Aydemir and his colleagues announced their aims as the dissolution of the Grand National Assembly, the resignation of the government and the passing of the administration to them through the suspension of the Constitution.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, The Çankaya mansion
At noon on February 22 Cihat Alpan was appointed to replace Şükrü İlkin as commander of the Presidential Guard Regiment protecting the Çankaya Mansion. However, the cavalry group of the Guard Regiment under Major Fethi Gürcan detained Alpan and then found itself in control of President Cemal Gürsel, Prime Minister İnönü and several other ministers, Chief of General Staff Sunay and the force commanders, who were meeting inside the mansion at that time. Gürcan contacted Talat Aydemir and asked permission to arrest them all. Aydemir refused because he did not want his action to be seen as a coup, so he ordered Gürcan to release them all. As he left the mansion, İnönü smiled and said “Now they have lost.”


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, The Çankaya mansion
As soon as he left the Çankaya mansion, İnönü headed for the Airforce Command Building, where he met other party leaders as well as the Airforce commanders. The government’s plan was now for President Gürsel and Prime Minister İnönü to make conciliatory speeches over the radio to try and de-escalate the situation. Mediation was established through Ekrem Alican, the leader of the New Turkey Party and a relative of Talat Aydemir, but this made little progress. Cemal Gürsel departed for Murted air base. When Fethi Gürcan seized the radio's transmitting station in Etimesgut with his troops, İnönü’s broadcasts stopped, but he was able to resume his addresses through the transmitter at Ankara Esenboğa Airport a few hours later.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, The Çankaya mansion
In his messages, İnönü stressed that providing no blood was shed, Aydemir and the other soldiers supporting the coup would not be punished. He refused however to consider any of the demands the coup leaders had made. It became clear to Aydemir that no further units were intending to join him, that his forces were surrounded, and that the government, political parties and High Command were steadily regaining the upper hand. He ordered the tanks in central Ankara to withdraw. On the evening of 22 February, the jets of the Air Force began to fly low over the Military Academy.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup, The Çankaya mansion
At 1am in the morning of 23 February, İnönü sent Aydemir a written note confirming that there would be no punishments if he and his followers gave up. Shortly afterwards Aydemir called on his followers to lay down their arms and return to barracks while he himself surrendered.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
When İnönü entered the Grand National Assembly on February 23, he was given an unprecedented standing ovation from deputies of all parties, who expressed their gratitude and confidence in the armed forces.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
The students of the Military Academy were given a week’s early leave and the school was temporarily closed and Semih Sancar was appointed to head it in place of Talat Aydemir. Aydemir, Emin Arat, Dündar Seyhan and Turgut Alpagut were kept under guard for a while, but there were no arrests. Fourteen officers were transferred while Aydemir and 22 others were retired from the army. Aydemir was arrested not for the attempted coup but for insulting İsmet İnönü and as detained in prison for just 9 days.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
İnönü’s conciliatory approach avoided holding a number of trials that would have caused discord and embarrassment to a government working to restore calm and order following the return to civilian rule. Indeed, on 22 April İnönü managed to persuade the Turkish Grand National Assembly to pass an amnesty law that allowed them to return to the ranks. There was a political cost - in return for agreeing to amnesty the coup officers, the Justice Party demanded the early release of Democrat Party prisoners held in Kayseri prison since the 1960 coup. In fact the attempted coup, the pardon debates and the ensuing the party conflicts overwhelmed İnönü, who resigned on 30 May 1962.


1962 Turkish coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
Talat Aydemir continued to oppose the return to civilian rule and gave many interviews sharing his views in the months after his release. On May 20, 1963 he led a second attempted coup, and after this he was arrested, sentenced to death and executed.


1962 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The 1962 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was held in Boston, Massachusetts from February 1 to 4, 1962. The compulsory figures and initial round dance events were held at the Skating Club of Boston rink, while the finals were held at the McHugh Forum rink at Boston College. Medals were awarded in three colors: gold (first), silver (second), and bronze (third) in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.


1962 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The event determined the U.S. team for the 1962 World Championships.


1962 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
It was the first national championship held following the deaths of the entire 1961 U.S. World Figure Skating team in the crash of Sabena Flight 548 near Brussels, Belgium on February 15, 1961. Not only were all of the 1961 champions dead, but so were the skaters who might have been expected to challenge them for the titles.


1962 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Men
Monty Hoyt, the 1961 junior champion, won over 12-year-old Scott Ethan Allen. The junior men's free skating was considered the most exciting event of the entire competition, with Tommy Litz winning a split decision over Gary Visconti. Litz, Allen, and Visconti all went on to win the senior men's title in successive years.


1962 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ladies
The ladies' event was won by 1960 Olympic bronze medalist Barbara Roles Pursley, who had been asked to come out of retirement; she had married and had a baby during the intervening year. She easily won the title with straight first-place ordinals after a poised and confident free skating performance that received an enthusiastic ovation from the crowd.


1962 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Pairs
The new champions were Dorothyann Nelson / Pieter Kollen, who pulled double duty and also won the silver in the dance event.


1962 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ice dancing (Gold dance)
The dance event was won by the newly formed team of Yvonne Littlefield / Peter Betts.


1962 U.S. National Championships (tennis)
The 1962 U.S. National Championships (now known as the US Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills in New York City, United States. The tournament ran from 29 August until 10 September. It was the 82nd staging of the U.S. National Championships, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1962. The men's singles event was won by Australian Rod Laver whose victory completed his first Grand Slam.


1962 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles
Rafael Osuna /  Antonio Palafox defeated  Chuck McKinley /  Dennis Ralston 6–4, 10–12, 1–6, 9–7, 6–3


1962 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles
Maria Bueno /  Darlene Hard  defeated  Karen Hantze Susman /  Billie Jean Moffitt, 4–6, 6–3, 6–2


1962 U.S. National Championships (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles
Margaret Smith /  Fred Stolle defeated  Lesley Turner /  Frank Froehling 7–5, 6–2


1962 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles
Rod Laver defeated Roy Emerson 6–2, 6–4, 5–7, 6–4 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1962 U.S. National Championships, and in turn complete a Grand Slam by winning all four majors in the same year. Laver would not appear in a Grand Slam tournament again until the start of the open era in 1968, due to turning professional in 1963.


1962 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Rod Laver is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1962 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded Margaret Smith defeated fifth-seeded Darlene Hard 9–7, 6–4 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1962 U.S. National Championships. The tournament was played on outdoor grass courts and held from August 29 through September 10, 1962 at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.


1962 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles
The draw consisted of 96 players of which eight were seeded.


1962 U.S. National Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Margaret Smith is the champion; others show in brackets the round in which they were eliminated.


1962 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1962 U.S. Open was the 62nd U.S. Open, held June 14–17 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. Jack Nicklaus defeated 1960 champion Arnold Palmer in an 18-hole Sunday playoff that marked the beginning of their legendary rivalry. For Nicklaus, it was his first professional win, the first of four U.S. Open titles and a record 18 major championships. Though just 22, it was Nicklaus' sixth U.S. Open and tenth major, having played in four Masters. He had won the U.S. Amateur twice (1959, 1961) and was the top amateur at the previous two Opens, placing second to Palmer in 1960 and fourth in 1961.


1962 U.S. Open (golf)
Nicklaus earned $15,000 for his first professional win, and Palmer $8,000 as runner-up. Each received a playoff bonus of $2,500 from the Sunday gate receipts.


1962 U.S. Open (golf)
Only two of the six former champions in the field made the 36-hole cut, Palmer and defending champion Gene Littler.


1962 U.S. Open (golf), Course layout
The first hole was a par 5 for the previous majors at Oakmont, set at 493 yards (451 m) in 1953.


1962 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, First round
Defending champion Littler took the first round lead with a 69 (−2) before a record opening round gallery of 17,486, mostly following Palmer in the afternoon, paired with Nicklaus. The previous record was 13,916 in 1960 near Denver.


1962 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round
Palmer carded a 68 in the morning and Bob Rosburg a 69 to co-lead after 36 holes at 139 (−3), with Nicklaus three strokes back in a tie for fourth. Palmer and Nicklaus were paired together in the first two rounds. The second round attendance record was broken with 19,971 in the gallery, surpassing the previous mark of 15,225 set in 1961 near Detroit.


1962 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
After 54 holes at Oakmont, Palmer held a share of the lead with Bobby Nichols, with Phil Rodgers and Bob Rosburg a stroke back, and Nicklaus and Gary Player two back. Rosburg shot a 79 (+8) in the final round and quickly fell out of contention, while Nichols and Rodgers carded scores of 73 and 72, respectively, to share 3rd place. But the story of this day was the duel between Palmer and Nicklaus. Although he bogeyed the 9th, Palmer still led Nicklaus as they made the turn.


1962 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round
That would change quickly as Nicklaus birdied 11 and Palmer bogeyed 13, evening up the score. Nicklaus missed a birdie attempt at the last to finish with a 69, while Palmer missed a birdie at 18 from 12 feet (4 m) that would have won the championship. This set up an 18-hole playoff between golf's most popular player and the game's rising star.


1962 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff
The 10,000 that showed up for the playoff on Sunday were decidedly pro-Palmer, constantly taunting the 22-year-old upstart from Ohio. (Palmer was from nearby Latrobe and had won two of the last three majors, with five overall.) Nicklaus, however, silenced the crowd by going up by four strokes after six holes. Palmer then launched one of his patented charges with birdies at 9, 11, and 12 to close within one, but a three-putt bogey at 13 proved to be costly for Palmer. Nicklaus held him off from there and prevailed by three strokes, carding a 71 to Palmer's 74.


1962 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff
Nicklaus won the championship on the greens; he had just one three-putt the entire week, while Palmer had 10. Nicklaus became the youngest winner of the U.S. Open since Bobby Jones in 1923, and became the first since Jones to hold the Open and the U.S. Amateur championship at the same time; he had won the Amateur the previous year before turning pro in the winter. For Palmer, this began a frustrating stretch as a runner-up in four U.S. Opens in six years, with three in playoffs. His words after the tournament proved prophetic, saying of Nicklaus: "Now that the big guy is out of the cage, everybody better run for cover."


1962 U.S. Women's Open
The 1962 U.S. Women's Open was the 17th U.S. Women's Open, held June 28–30 at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.


1962 U.S. Women's Open
Murle Lindstrom, age 23, won the title for her first LPGA Tour victory, two strokes ahead of runners-up Ruth Jessen and Jo Ann Prentice. The first of her four wins on tour, it was the only major title for Lindstrom, later known as Murle Breer.


1962 U.S. Women's Open
Defending champion Mickey Wright was a co-leader after 36 holes, but fell back on Saturday morning in the third round and finished five strokes back in a tie for fourth. Wright had won three of the previous four years; she won her fourth U.S. Women's Open two years later in 1964. Jessen led after each of the first three rounds, but a final round 80 (+8) dropped her back.


1962 U.S. Women's Open
Thirty professionals and eleven amateurs made the 36-hole cut at 166 (+22) or better; the low amateur was JoAnne Gunderson at 313 (+25), tied for fifteenth place.


1962 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 1962 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1962 NCAA College Division football season. UC Davis competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The UC Davis sports teams were commonly called the "Cal Aggies" from 1924 until the mid 1970s.


1962 UC Davis Aggies football team
The Aggies were led by seventh-year head coach Will Lotter. They played home games at Toomey Field. The Aggies finished the season with a record of five wins and four losses (5–4, 2–3 FWC). They outscored their opponents 131–110 for the 1962 season.


1962 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft
No UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1963 NFL Draft.


1962 UC Riverside Highlanders football team
The 1962 UC Riverside Highlanders football team represented UC Riverside during the 1962 NCAA College Division football season. The Highlanders competed as an independent in 1962.


1962 UC Riverside Highlanders football team
UC Riverside was led by fourth-year head coach Jim Whitley. They played home games at UCR Athletic Field in Riverside, California. The Highlanders finished the season with a record of three wins and five losses (3–5). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 120–187 for the season.


1962 UC Riverside Highlanders football team, Team players in the NFL
No UC Riverside players were selected in the 1963 NFL Draft.


1962 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
The 1962 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) during the 1962 NCAA College Division football season.


1962 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
UCSB competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA), although 1962 was the last year they were in the conference. The team was led by third-year head coach Bill Hammer, and played home games at La Playa Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2–8, 2–4 CCAA).


1962 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team, Team players in the NFL
No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1963 NFL Draft.


1962 UCI Road World Championships
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1962 UCI Road World Championships
The 1962 UCI Road World Championships took place on 2 September 1962 in Salò, Italy. The team time trial made its debut.


1962 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The men's road race at the 1962 UCI Road World Championships was the 29th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 2 September 1962 in Salò, Italy. The race was won by Jean Stablinski of France.


1962 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1962 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Milan, Italy from 24 to 28 August 1962. Nine events were contested, 7 for men (3 for professionals, 4 for amateurs) and 2 for women.


1962 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1962 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth year under head coach Bill Barnes, the Bruins compiled a 4–6 record (1–3 AAWU) and finished in fifth place in the Athletic Association of Western Universities.


1962 UCLA Bruins football team
UCLA's offensive leaders in 1962 were quarterback Larry Zeno with 458 passing yards, Kermit Alexander with 472 rushing yards, and Mel Profit with 229 receiving yards.


1962 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
The UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1962 Final Tournament was held in Romania.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 36th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The decrease in attendances continued as a result of the Betting and Gaming Act 1960, which contributed to more track closures. Boundary Park Stadium in the Hellesdon area of Norwich closed on 1 December 1962, to become a redeveloped site for the Eastern Electricity Company. Rochdale switched to independent status and Charlton Stadium closed after difficulties (it would re-open four years later however), in the meantime their top event the Cloth of Gold would take place at Wandsworth Stadium.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
English Greyhound Derby finalist Dromin Glory, a brindle dog trained by John Bassett had a brilliant year winning both the Scottish Greyhound Derby and Cesarewitch at West Ham Stadium in consecutive months. This was achieved in addition to lifting the Birmingham Cup, Gymcrack and Select Stakes and was voted Greyhound of the Year.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
The Grand National at White City was finally given recognition as a classic event; the race offered £500 for the first time in 1961 a winner's prize worthy of its status.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
The George Waterman trained brindle dog Summerhill Fancy had an excellent year, winning the Welsh Greyhound Derby, the International, the Chelsea Cup, the Flying Four and Evening Standard Trophy.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
As a result of the death of Leslie Reynolds, Wembley appointed Jack Kinsley to take up the vacant range at the Wembley kennels. This in turn allowed Stan Gudgin to take over Jack Kinsley's range at Park Royal Stadium. Tom Johnston Sr. retired and his son Tom Johnston Jr. took over his range at West Ham Stadium. Johnston Sr. had won the 1928 English Greyhound Derby with Boher Ash when based in Scotland.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Following the decision to cover all sports the Greyhound Express is renamed the Sporting and Greyhound Express.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Francis Steward Gentle chairman of the Greyhound Racing Association and president of the NGRS died on 25 September, he leaves an estate of £181,750.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Coronation Street featured an episode at Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium and a racing greyhound called Lucky Lolita (real name Black Star).


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
The Grand Canal, the English Derby winner and Easter Cup returned a hero when returning to Irish shores, after winning the English Derby.


1962 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland
1962 Irish Greyhound Derby winner Shanes Legacy was sold after the final presentation by owner Bob McCann, for £2,500 to London building contractor Bob Gough who put the greyhound with Tony Dennis. Dark Baby went on to win the Laurels at Cork and break the track record.


1962 UMass Redmen football team
The 1962 UMass Redmen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1962 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Vic Fusia and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. UMass finished the season with a record of 6–3 overall and 4–1 in conference play.


1962 USAC Championship Car season
The 1962 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 13 races, beginning in Trenton, New Jersey on April 8 and concluding in Phoenix, Arizona on November 18. There was also one non-championship event at Pikes Peak, Colorado. The USAC National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Rodger Ward. Hugh Randall was killed in the Langhorne 100 at Langhorne Speedway; he was 29 years old.


1962 USAC Championship Car season, Schedule and results
- The Ted Horn Memorial was rained out, and a suitable alternative date was not found.


1962 USAC Road Racing Championship
The 1962 USAC Road Racing Championship season was the fifth and final season of the USAC Road Racing Championship. It began April 1, 1962, and ended October 21, 1962, after five races. The series was contested for Formula Libre at the first two rounds, and sports cars at the final three rounds. Roger Penske won the season championship.


1962 USA–USSR Track and Field Dual Meet
The 1962 USA–USSR Track and Field Dual Meet was an international track and field competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. The fourth in a series of meetings between the nations, it was held on July 21–22 at the Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California, United States, and finished with the Soviet Union beating the United States 173 to 169. A total of 32 events were contested, 22 by men and 10 by women. The meet marked a high point in public interest in the competition, with an attendance of more than 150,000 over the two-day event – the largest ever on a non-Olympic track and field competition. Even the Soviet workouts attracted crowds of 5000.


1962 USA–USSR Track and Field Dual Meet
Two world records were broken at the competition: Soviet athlete Valeriy Brumel set a record of 2.26 m (7 ft 4 3⁄4 in) in the men's high jump and Hal Connolly broke the men's hammer throw record with a mark of 70.67 m (231 ft 10 1⁄4 in).


1962 USC Trojans football team
The 1962 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1962 NCAA University Division football season. In their third year under head coach John McKay, the Trojans compiled an 11–0 record (4–0 against conference opponents), won the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU or Big 6) championship, defeated Wisconsin in the 1963 Rose Bowl, outscored their opponents by a combined total of 261 to 92, and finished the season ranked #1 in both the AP Poll and UPI Coaches Poll.


1962 USC Trojans football team
Pete Beathard was the team's quarterback, completing 54 of 107 passes for 989 yards with ten touchdown passes and only one interception. (Bill Nelsen also completed 36 of 80 passes for 682 yards and eight touchdown passes with two interceptions.) Willie Brown was the team's leading rusher with 574 rushing yards (and 291 receiving yards). Hal Bedsole was the team's leading receiver with 33 catches for 827 yards and 11 touchdowns. Bedsole was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2012.


1962 USC Trojans football team
Two USC players were selected by the Associated Press (AP) as first-team players on the 1962 All-Pacific Coast football team. They were end Hal Bedsole and linebacker Damon Bame. Bedsole was also a consensus first-team All-American in 1962, while Bame received first-team All-America honors from the AP.


1962 USC Trojans football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1962 USC football team.


1962 USSR Chess Championship
The 1962 Soviet Chess Championship was the 30th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 21 November to 20 December 1962 in Yerevan. The tournament was won by Viktor Korchnoi. It was preceded by six semifinals events at Dnipropetrovsk, Novosibirsk, Riga and three of which were simultaneously the finals of thechampionships of the sports societies Spartak, Trud and Burevestnik.


1962 Ugandan Independence Tournament
The Ugandan Independence Tournament was an association football event taking place in 1962 to celebrate Ugandan Independence held at the Nakivubo Stadium in Kampala. Three visiting teams played each other for theright to face Uganda in the final. Kenya was invited to replace Egypt which was unable to participate due to its domestic schedule; as a result, the eventual teams were Ghana, Kenya and an 'all-star' representative team from the English Isthmian League. The competition took the format of a formal group stage and final and also featured exhibition matches between both teams within the formal competition and other international teams, taking place from 29 September to 18 October 1962.


1962 Ugandan Independence Tournament, Tournament
The three challenging teams took part in a group stage from 29 September to 7 October in a round-robin format, in which they each played 2 games. The winner of this competition then proceeded through to the final against Uganda on 10 October.


1962 Ugandan Independence Tournament, Tournament, Group Stage
In the group stage, two points were awarded for a win, with one point awarded for a draw. Ghana won their first game against Kenya 6-3, before drawing with Isthmian League to secure first place and move on to the final of the competition.


1962 Ugandan Independence Tournament, Tournament, Final
Ghana won the group stage and moved onto the final on 10 October 2019, where they subsequently beat Uganda, winning 4-1 at the Nakivubo Stadium.


1962 Ugandan Independence Tournament, Winners Tour
The winners of the competition, Ghana, were to go on a short tour following the competition featuring friendlies in away games against Kenya, and the then national football teams of the prior states of Tanganyika and Nyasaland. They won all three games, playing each at the respective teams national stadiums.


1962 Ugandan Independence Tournament, Friendlies
A friendly was played between Uganda and Isthmian League on 8 October, which ended in a 1-1 draw. This was the Isthmian's third game in 4 days and two of their players were replaced by members of the Kenyan team due to injury.


1962 Ugandan general election
General elections were held in Uganda on 25 April 1962 in preparation for independence on 9 October. However, elections were not held in all parts of the country, with the Parliament of Buganda nominating 21 members (all of whom belonged to the Kabaka Yekka party) to the national parliament instead. The result was a victory for the Uganda People's Congress, which won 37 of the 82 seats, and went on to form an alliance with Kabaka Yekka.


1962 Ukrainian Class B
The 1962 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was the 32nd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Ukrainian Class B. It was the thirteenth in the Soviet Class B.


1962 Ukrainian Class B
The 1962 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was won by FC Trudovi Rezervy Luhansk.


1962 Ukrainian Class B
There was reorganization of professional football competitions with Class A being expanded by adding extra tier and all Class B competitions including in Ukraine were moved to the third tier. This season due to reorganization 35 out of 39 teams were relegated to lower tier by continuing next season to compete in the Ukrainian Class B competitions.


1962 Ukrainian Class B, Format
Some 150 teams took part in competitions of the Soviet football championship in Class B. Collectives of the second echelon were distributed among 10 zones (groups) and represented all Union republics in the championship. The most teams in competitions represent the Russian Federation. They were competing not in six zones as in 1961, but in five.


1962 Ukrainian Class B, Format
The total number of teams was not diminished, and number of games in each zone increased. Also, same as in Russia, independent championship (with three zones) was conducted in Ukraine. In the rest two zones were competing teams of other Union republics. Competitions in Class B identified champion of Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and the best team of Union republics zone. All of them received a right to compete next season in the 1963 Class A.


1962 Ukrainian Class B, Format
The winning teams of championship of bigger cities, oblasts, krais, and republics were granted permission to play-off with teams of Class B of own republic and in case of win were to be promoted to Class B and the Class B teams that lost play-off were relegated out of teams of masters competitions.


1962 Ukrainian Class B, Format
The Class B teams that placed 1 through 3 in zones were freed from relegation play-offs.


1962 Ukrainian Class B, Relegation play-offs
Please, note that FC Silmash Lviv next season was reformed into better known FC Karpaty Lviv and right away admitted to the Soviet Class A.


1962 United States Grand Prix
The 1962 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 7, 1962, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 8 of 9 in both the 1962 World Championship of Drivers and the 1962 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 100-lap race was won by Lotus driver Jim Clark after starting from pole position. Graham Hill finished second for the BRM team and Cooper driver Bruce McLaren came in third.


1962 United States Grand Prix, Summary
New Lotus star Jim Clark of Scotland took his third victory of the season, and the third of his career, to keep alive his hopes of catching Graham Hill for the 1962 World Driver's Championship with one race remaining. Hill finished nine seconds back in second place for BRM, while Bruce McLaren was third, despite being a lap down.


1962 United States Grand Prix, Summary
For the third consecutive year, Ferrari had decided not to make the trip across the Atlantic for the American race. It had been a miserable year for the team, finishing sixth in the eight-team Constructor's Championship (without a victory), after winning it the year before. The powerful new V8 engines built by Climax and BRM for the second year of the 1.5-liter formula had taken the series by storm, and Ferrari's advantage from 1961 had been completely erased.


1962 United States Grand Prix, Summary
Also, as a result, American Phil Hill was again without a drive in his home country, and, worse yet, he learned from a reliable source at The Glen that he had been fired!


1962 United States Grand Prix, Summary
In Friday's qualifying session, Graham Hill, Hill's BRM teammate Richie Ginther, Clark and Jack Brabham (using his own BT3 model for just the second time) all bettered the previous year's lap record of 1:18.2. Clark then went out and shattered the absolute course record, set under the 2.5-liter formula by Stirling Moss, with a staggering 1:15.8. Damp and misty conditions on Saturday prohibited anyone improving their Friday time, so the top six were Clark in the Lotus, Ginther and Hill's BRM's, American Dan Gurney in a Porsche, Brabham, and McLaren's Cooper.


1962 United States Grand Prix, Summary
By race time on Sunday, there were 40,000 fans braving the cold winds and a threat of rain. At the start, Clark led off the grid, while Hill jumped into second behind him. With Ginther, Brabham, Gurney and McLaren following, the two Championship rivals pulled away, already lowering the F1 track record on lap 3! Gurney got by Brabham and Ginther and briefly took third place, but on lap 11, Ginther retook the spot behind his teammate when Gurney slid half off the track, inches from the Armco, on a patch of oil in the Loop.


1962 United States Grand Prix, Summary
On lap 12, the two leaders were already coming up to lap the tail-enders. When Clark was delayed in the traffic, Hill took the lead away from him. By lap 19, however, Clark had lowered the lap record to 1:15.4, well under his qualifying time, and retaken the lead for good. Ginther was struggling with a deteriorating gearbox and began to fall back until a missed shift on lap 35 blew the engine and ended a fine run.


1962 United States Grand Prix, Summary
As Clark continued comfortably ahead of Hill, McLaren was now hounding Gurney for third place. The New Zealander's Cooper slid by on lap 57, and soon after, Gurney began losing power in the Porsche's engine. Brabham closed the gap between them, and when he grabbed fourth place from the American on lap 69, he claimed the first Championship points ever scored by the Brabham make.


1962 United States Grand Prix, Summary
Clark and Hill were the only cars on the lead lap toward the end as both lapped repeatedly under their grid times. Clark eventually clocked a 1:15.0 on lap 70 for the fastest lap of the race, and eased off from his biggest lead of 17 seconds to take the second consecutive American Grand Prix win for Team Lotus. "I planned to get in front and stay there," Clark said. "I set up the car for dry weather just before we started. I sure am glad the weather held up!" Indeed, moments after the Scot had taken the checkered flag, a drizzle began to fall.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1962 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1962, which occurred in the middle of President John F. Kennedy's term. As in most midterm elections, Kennedy's Democratic Party lost seats to the opposition Republican Party, but retained a majority. House Democrats were expected to lose their majority, but the resolution over the Cuban Missile Crisis just a few weeks prior,  led to a rebound in approval for the Democrats under President Kennedy.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections
The number of seats up for election went back to 435, in accordance with reapportionment resulting from the 1960 census. (The membership had been increased temporarily to 437 in 1959, providing 1 seat each for new states of Alaska and Hawaii, while the other 435 seats continued with the reapportionment resulting from the 1950 census.)


1962 United States House of Representatives elections
This marked the last midterm election cycle in which a sitting Democratic president experienced net losses for his party in the House while experiencing net gains in the Senate.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Alabama
Alabama lost 1 seat in redistricting and elected all seats at-large as a method of determining which seat to eliminate.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Arizona
Arizona gained one seat and formed a new third district out of the northern part of the state.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Arkansas
Arkansas lost two seats and merged the 5th and 6th districts into the other districts. 5th district incumbent Dale Alford chose to run for governor rather than face Wilbur Mills in a primary, and 6th district incumbent Catherine Dorris Norrell retired after serving out the remainder of her husband's term.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, California
Eight new seats were gained in reapportionment, including 4 additional districts in Greater Los Angeles alone as well as others in San Diego, the Northern Central Valley, Alameda County, and the Central Coast, increasing the delegation from 30 to 38 seats. Seven of the new seats were won by Democrats, one by a Republican. Two Republican incumbents lost re-election to Democrats. Therefore, Democrats increased by 9 seats and Republicans decreased by 1.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Florida
Florida gained 4 new districts at reapportionment: the 3rd around Miami, the 9th in the Panhandle, the 10th around Tampa, and the 11th in Orlando and the nearby Atlantic coast.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Hawaii
Hawaii gained a second seat at reapportionment and elected both seats at-large.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Illinois
Illinois lost one seat at reapportionment, merging the existing 21st district into the 20th and 23rd, and the Chicago districts were realigned to give more representation to the suburbs.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Iowa
Iowa lost one seat at reapportionment and divided the existing 6th district in north-central Iowa among several neighboring districts with compensating boundary changes elsewhere. Incumbent Merwin Coad chose to retire rather than run against one of the other incumbents.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Kansas
Kansas lost one seat at reapportionment and redistricted from 6 to 5, combining the existing southwestern 5th and northwestern 6th districts into a single district, in which incumbents James Floyd Breeding and Bob Dole ran against each other, and making modest boundary changes elsewhere.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Kentucky
Kentucky lost one seat at reapportionment. 5th district incumbent Brent Spence elected to retire, and his district was divided between several other districts with the lion's share going to the 4th.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Maine
Maine lost one seat at reapportionment, redistricting from 3 seats to 2 -- a 1st district containing the coastal parts of the existing 1st and 2nd districts, and a 2nd district containing the existing 3rd district and the rest of inland Maine.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Maryland
Maryland gained an eighth seat at reapportionment and chose to elect it at-large.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Massachusetts
Massachusetts lost two seats at reapportionment, one from each party.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Michigan
Michigan gained one seat at reapportionment, which it elected at-large rather than redistricting.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Minnesota
Minnesota lost one seat at reapportionment, and the 7th saw the largest change, with its territory split between the existing 2nd and 6th districts.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Mississippi
Mississippi lost one seat at reapportionment, and merged the 2nd and 3rd districts without making other boundary changes.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Missouri
Missouri lost one seat at reapportionment, and merged the 11th and 8th districts with compensating boundary changes to other districts.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Nebraska
Nebraska lost one seat at reapportionment and split the southern 1st district between the eastern 3rd and western 4th districts.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, New Jersey
New Jersey gained one seat and formed a 15th district out of parts of the existing 3rd and 5th districts around Perth Amboy without making substantial changes elsewhere.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, New York
New York lost 2 seats at reapportionment; after redistricting, Long Island actually gained two seats while Manhattan lost two and Brooklyn and Upstate New York lost one each. As of 2020, this would be the last time Republicans would win the most congressional districts in New York.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Pennsylvania
Three seats were lost in reapportionment, decreasing the delegation from 30 to 27 seats, with redistricting removing one seat in Philadelphia and two in central Pennsylvania. Two of those seats were lost by Republicans (a retirement and a redistricting contest against a Democratic incumbent), and one seat was by a Democrat (a retirement).


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, Texas
Texas gained one seat in reapportionment and elected it at large.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections, West Virginia
West Virginia lost one seat and redistricted from 6 districts to 5, splitting the existing 3rd district up among all the others.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in California
The United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1962 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 6, 1962. California gained eight districts as a result of the 1960 Census, seven of which were won by Democrats and one by a Republican. Of California's existing districts, Democrats picked up three and lost one.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results
Final results from the Clerk of the House of Representatives:


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina
The 1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 6, 1962 to select six Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. The primary elections were held on June 12 and the runoff elections were held two weeks later on June 26. All five incumbents who ran were re-elected and the open seat in the 2nd congressional district was retained by the Democrats. The composition of the state delegation thus remained solely Democratic.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman L. Mendel Rivers of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1941, was unopposed in his bid for re-election.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district special election
Incumbent Democratic Congressman John J. Riley of the 2nd congressional district died on January 1, 1962. A special election was called and his widow, Corinne Boyd Riley, won the Democratic primary on February 13 and the special election on April 10 to serve out the remainder of the term.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Boyd Riley of the 2nd congressional district succeeded her husband, John J. Riley, in office upon his death in 1962. She did not seek re-election and Democratic state Representative Albert Watson won the open seat against Republican Floyd Spence.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1951, was unopposed in his bid for re-election.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Robert T. Ashmore of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1953, won the Democratic primary was unopposed in the general election.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman Robert W. Hemphill of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1957, defeated Republican challenger Robert M. Doster.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district
Incumbent Democratic Congressman John L. McMillan of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1939, defeated G. Stanley Bryant in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election.


1962 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia
The 1962 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia were held on November 6, 1962 to determine who will represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives. Virginia had ten seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1960 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.


1962 United States Senate election in Alabama
The 1962 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 6, 1962 to elect one of Alabama's members to the United States Senate. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator J. Lister Hill won re-election to his fifth, and last, full term.


1962 United States Senate election in Alabama, Background
In 1962, Hill, a New Deal liberal, sought his last term in office but faced an unusually strong Republican opponent in James D. Martin, a petroleum products distributor from Gadsden. Like Hill, Martin supported the Tennessee Valley Authority, a New Deal project begun in 1933. Martin noted that the original sponsor of the inter-state development agency was a Republican U.S. senator, George W. Norris of Nebraska. Martin proposed in the campaign that the TVA headquarters be relocated from Knoxville, Tennessee, to its original point of development, Muscle Shoals, Alabama.


1962 United States Senate election in Alabama, Background
Hill had worked to fund other public works projects too, including the deepening of the Mobile Ship Channel, the building of the Gainesville Lock and Dam in Sumter County, and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, an ultimately successful strategy to link the Tennessee River with the Gulf of Mexico. In the campaign against Martin, Hill said, "If Alabama is to continue the progress and development she has achieved, she cannot do so by deserting the great Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt."


1962 United States Senate election in Alabama, Background
Senator Hill pledged to seek renewed funding for the Redstone Arsenal and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and accused Eisenhower of having neglected the space program while the former Soviet Union was placing Sputnik into the atmosphere. Strongly endorsed by organized labor, Hill accused the GOP of exploiting the South to enrich the North and the East and attacked the legacy of former President Herbert C. Hoover and the earlier "evils" of Reconstruction. Hill predicted that Alabama voters would bury the Republicans "under an avalanche."


1962 United States Senate election in Alabama, Background
The 1962 mid-term elections were overshadowed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. Martin joined Hill in endorsing the quarantine of Cuba but  insisted that the problem was an outgrowth of the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Hill said that Soviet premier, Nikita S. Khrushchev, had "chickened out" because "the one thing the communists respect is strength." The New York Times speculated that the blockade ordered by Kennedy may have spared Hill from defeat.


1962 United States Senate election in Alabama, Background
Despite the postwar bipartisan consensus for foreign aid, Martin hammered away at Hill's backing for such programs. He decried subsidies to foreign manufacturers  and workers at the expense of Alabama's then large force of textile workers: "These foreign giveaways have cost taxpayers billions of dollars and turned many areas of Alabama into distressed areas." Martin also condemned aid to communist countries and the impact of the United Nations on national policy. He questioned Hill's congressional seniority as of little use when troops were dispatched in the fall of 1962 to compel the desegregation of the University of Mississippi.


1962 United States Senate election in Alabama, Background
The Hill-Martin race drew considerable national attention. The liberal columnist Drew Pearson wrote from Decatur, Alabama, that "for the first time since Reconstruction, the two-party system, which political scientists talk about for the South, but never expect to materialize, may come to Alabama. "The New York Times viewed the Alabama race as the most vigorous off-year effort in modern southern history but predicted a Hill victory on the basis that Martin had failed to gauge "bread-and-butter" issues and was perceived by many as an "ultraconservative."


1962 United States Senate election in Alaska
The 1962 United States Senate election in Alaska took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening ran for a full term in office and defeated Republican Ted Stevens.


1962 United States Senate election in Alaska
Stevens was appointed to Alaska's other (Class II) U.S. Senate seat in 1968 and served for over forty years, winning seven elections.


1962 United States Senate election in Arizona
The 1962 United States Senate election in Arizona took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Carl Hayden ran for reelection to a seventh term, defeating Republican State Senator Evan Mecham in the general election. Mecham became Governor of Arizona more than two decades later, and was subsequently impeached from office.


1962 United States Senate election in Arizona
This would be Hayden's final run for U.S. Senate, as he would be succeeded in office by Barry Goldwater in 1968. This would be the last time Democrats won the Class 3 Senate seat from Arizona until Mark Kelly's victory in the 2020 special election. However, it still remains as the last time a Democrat was elected to the class 3 seat for a full term.


1962 United States Senate election in Arizona, Republican primary
State Senator Evan Mecham ran for U.S. Senate, and was challenged by political operative and strategist Stephen Shadegg. Shadegg, who had served as campaign manager for both Republican and Democratic candidates, had run at the urging of Senator Barry Goldwater, but Goldwater failed to officially endorse any candidate in the Republican primary. Shadegg later said that he was "terriby let down" by Goldwater's position of neutrality in the primary after Goldwater had urged Shadegg to seek the seat.


1962 United States Senate election in Arkansas
The 1962 United States Senate election in Arkansas took place on November 2, 1962. Incumbent Senator J. William Fulbright won a fourth term in office, defeating primary challenger Winston G. Chandler and Republican Party nominee Kenneth G. Jones without much threat.


1962 United States Senate election in California
The 1962 United States Senate election in California was held on November 6, 1962.


1962 United States Senate election in California
Incumbent Republican Thomas Kuchel was re-elected to  a second full term in office, defeating Democratic State Senator Richard Richards. Kuchel carried every county in California and remains the most recent candidate for Senate to do so as of 2021. As of 2021, this is the last time a Republican was elected to the Class 3 Senate seat from California.


1962 United States Senate election in California, General election, Campaign
Write-in campaigns were launched for anti-tax activist Howard Jarvis, 1962 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and proponent of nuclear disarmament Linus Pauling, and Edward Brothers, but none made a significant impact on the race.


1962 United States Senate election in Colorado
The 1962 United States Senate election in Colorado took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator John A. Carroll ran for re-election to a second term in office, but was defeated by Republican U.S. Representative Peter H. Dominick.


1962 United States Senate election in Connecticut
The 1962 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held on November 6, 1962.


1962 United States Senate election in Connecticut
Incumbent Senator Prescott Bush retired instead of seeking a second full term in office. Former Governor of Connecticut and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff was elected his successor over Congressman Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. Ribicoff had previously sought election to this seat in 1952 but lost to Bush.


1962 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Republican nomination, Results
Congressman Horace Seely-Brown, Jr. won an upset victory over former Governor John Davis Lodge at the Republican state convention. After two weeks of deliberation, Lodge opted not to seek a primary challenge and Seely-Brown was unopposed for the Republican nomination on the primary ballot.


1962 United States Senate election in Connecticut, Democratic convention, Convention results
Kowalski fell short of the 190 delegates needed to be eligible for a primary election. Ribicoff was unopposed on the primary ballot.


1962 United States Senate election in Georgia
The 1962 United States Senate election in Georgia took place on November 5, 1962. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge was re-elected to a second consecutive term in office, winning large victories in the primary and general elections.


1962 United States Senate election in Georgia
At this time, Georgia was a one-party state. Talmadge's victory in the September 12 primary was tantamount to election, and he was unopposed in the general election.


1962 United States Senate election in Hawaii
The 1962 United States Senate election in Hawaii took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic Senator Oren Long retired after serving an abbreviated three-year term. Democratic U.S. Representative Dan Inouye was elected to succeed Long, defeating Republican Ben Dillingham II, the heir to the massive Dillingham industrial fortune.


1962 United States Senate election in Hawaii
Inouye would continue hold the seat with little trouble for nearly fifty years, until his death in 2012.


1962 United States Senate election in Illinois
The 1962 United States Senate election in Illinois was held on November 6, 1962 to elect one of Illinois's members to the United States Senate. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen won re-election to his third term.


1962 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information
The primaries and general election coincided with those for congress and state elections.


1962 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout
Turnout in the primary elections was 33.36%, with a total of 1,815,849 votes cast.


1962 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout
Turnout during the general election was 72.66%, with 3,709,209 votes cast.


1962 United States Senate election in Illinois, General election
Dirksen carried 86 of the state's 102 counties. Among the counties that Yates carried over Dirksen was the state's most populous county, Cook County, in which Yates won with 51.30% to Dirksen's 48.70%. 52.97 % of all votes cast in the election were from Cook County. In the combined vote of the state's other 101 counties, Dirksen won 57.58% to Yates' 42.43%.


1962 United States Senate election in Indiana
The 1962 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Homer Capehart ran for re-election to a fourth consecutive term in office, but was narrowly defeated by Democratic State Representative Birch Bayh.


1962 United States Senate election in Kentucky
The 1962 United States Senate election in Kentucky took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican Senator Thruston Ballard Morton won re-election to a second term.


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana
The 1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic Senator Russell Long was elected to a fourth term in office.


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana
On August 17, Long won the Democratic primary with 80.15% of the vote.


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana
Long won the general election against Shreveport attorney Taylor W. O'Hearn, who staged a rare bid for statewide office on the Republican line. O'Hearn carried seven parishes in northern Louisiana, a sign of growing disenchantment by conservative Southern whites with the Kennedy administration, but Long still won an easy majority in a state that remained predominantly Democratic.


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign
Taylor O'Hearn, a segregationist Democrat from Shreveport, Louisiana, switched parties to run as a Republican in 1962 for the U.S. Senate.


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign
O'Hearn charged that Long was practicing "the same old pork barrel. He's promising everybody everything with their own money." He said that Long was attempting to take credit for all political progress in the state. Long refused to debate O'Hearn, who charged that the senator "doesn't have the guts to talk to the people about campaign issues." Long replied that he was "not ashamed I've fought to get things for Louisiana. I'm not ashamed to go to the White House to talk to the president to get things done for my state and its people."


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign
O'Hearn also attacked Long for his alignment with the Kennedy administration. O'Hearn also claimed that Long voted 75 percent of the time for Kennedy policies: "These bills are not just socialistic but radical!"


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign
O'Hearn particularly attacked Long and Kennedy on foreign policy. He called the failed Bay of Pigs operation a "desertion of Cuban patriots... It's odd to me that Russell Long and Jack Kennedy were the only two persons in the country who did not know about the Cuban arms buildup." He claimed that the Cuban blockade against Soviet missiles was "timed perfectly with the political campaign."


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign
O'Hearn said that he opposed foreign aid until neutral countries committed themselves to the West. He proposed that the United States withdraw from the United Nations until "the communist bloc pays its share." In appealing for support, O'Hearn said that his "honor and integrity [are] the only things I own. No one is going to buy it, bargain for it, or obtain it in any other matter."


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign
Long denied O'Hearn's contention that he was automatically in lockstep with Kennedy policies. Long distanced himself on civil rights and voiced opposition to Kennedy's intervention in the desegregation of the University of Mississippi at Oxford after rioting by whites at the campus.


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign
In a newspaper advertisement, Long declared himself an "Independent Thinker" who is "unalterably opposed to federal control of state education, foreign aid to Russia's satellites, unnecessary federal spending, and increased taxation." He also claimed to be a "leader in the fight to preserve our traditional southern way of life. "L ong noted that he had managed to keep Fort Polk operating near Leesville in Vernon Parish and had fought for assistance to underprivileged children, the needy blind, small business, and farmers.


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Results
O'Hearn carried seven conservative north Louisiana parishes. He polled a clear majority in Louisiana's 4th congressional district.


1962 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Results
O'Hearn fared best in his native Caddo Parish, where he polled 64.7 percent of the vote. He received 58.7 percent of the vote in neighboring Madison Parish and also carried Webster, Morehouse, Bossier, Claiborne, and La Salle parishes. In ten other parishes, all in north Louisiana, O'Hearn drew more than 40 percent of the vote.


1962 United States Senate election in Maryland
The 1962 United States Senate election in Maryland was held on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Marshall Butler did not run for re-election to a third term in office. Democratic U.S. Representative Daniel Brewster won the re-election to succeed him easily over Republican U.S. Representative Edward Tylor Miller.


1962 United States Senate election in New Hampshire
The 1962 United States Senate election in New Hampshire took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican Senator Norris Cotton won re-election to a second full term.


1962 United States Senate election in New York
The 1962 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Jacob Javits won against Democratic challenger James B. Donovan.


1962 United States Senate election in North Carolina
The 1962 United States Senate election in North Carolina was held on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic Senator Sam Ervin was re-elected to a second term in office over Republican farmer Claude Greene Jr.


1962 United States Senate election in North Carolina
Ervin was elected to a second full (six-year) term, though by a somewhat smaller margin than he enjoyed in his victory in 1956.


1962 United States Senate election in North Carolina, Footnotes
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1962 United States Senate election in North Dakota
The 1962 U.S. Senate election for the state of North Dakota was held November 6, 1962. The incumbent, Republican Senator Milton Young, sought and received re-election to his fourth  term, defeating North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party candidate William Lanier of Fargo, North Dakota.


1962 United States Senate election in North Dakota
Only Young filed as a Republican, and the endorsed Democratic candidate was William Lanier of Fargo, North Dakota, who had previously faced Young in a special election held in 1946 to fill the seat which was vacated by the late John Moses. Lanier is not to be confused with former Governor of North Dakota William Langer. Young and Lanier won the primary elections for their respective parties. No independent candidates sought the senate seat.


1962 United States Senate election in Ohio
The 1962 United States Senate election in Ohio took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Senator Frank Lausche was re-elected to a second term in office, easily defeating Republican attorney John Marshall Briley.


1962 United States Senate election in Oklahoma
The 1962 United States Senate election in Oklahoma took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic Senator Mike Monroney was re-elected to a third term. After winning a sizable victory in the Democratic primary, Monroney faced Republican former U.S. Attorney B. Hayden Crawford in the general election. Monroney won his last term in the Senate before his defeat in 1968. This election marks the last time a Democrat won the class 3 senate seat from Oklahoma.


1962 United States Senate election in Oklahoma, Republican primary
B. Hayden Crawford, the former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma and the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1960, was the only Republican candidate to file for the U.S. Senate race. Accordingly, he received the nomination unopposed and the race was removed from the primary ballot.


1962 United States Senate election in Oregon
The 1962 Oregon United States Senate election was held on November 8, 1962 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of Oregon. Democratic Senator Wayne Morse decided to seek re-election for a fourth term. He defeated Republican candidate Sig Unander in the general election.


1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
The 1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joseph S. Clark, Jr. successfully sought re-election to another term, defeating Republican nominee James E. Van Zandt.


1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
A Democratic U.S. Senator would not be re-elected in Pennsylvania again until 2006. As of 2021, this is the last time the Democrats have won the Class 3 Senate seat from Pennsylvania.


1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Campaign
The 1962 Senate race took place alongside a gubernatorial race that garnered most of the media's attention. Van Zandt criticized Clark for being an idealistic liberal and stressed an anti-communist platform. He also attacked Clark for Clark's support of the Kennedy administration's foreign policy towards both China and Cuba. In return, Clark portrayed Van Zandt as a proponent of McCarthyism who would be "trigger happy" as a Senator.


1962 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, Campaign
In the end, Clark was re-elected to the United States Senate, winning his second term. He beat Van Zandt in the nine-county area of Southwestern Pennsylvania surrounding Pittsburgh by nearly 200,000 votes, but lost Central Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia suburbs to Van Zandt. Clark increased his margin of victory in the Southwest from 1956, and his 108,000 vote margin in Allegheny County was an important factor in his victory.


1962 United States Senate election in South Carolina
The 1962 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 6, 1962 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Incumbent Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston defeated Governor Fritz Hollings in the Democratic primary and Republican W. D. Workman, Jr. in the general election.


1962 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Democratic primary
The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary on June 12, 1962. Olin D. Johnston, the incumbent Senator, faced stiff competition from Governor Fritz Hollings who argued that Johnston was too liberal and not representative of South Carolina interests. Johnston merely told the voters that he was doing what he thought was best for the agriculture and textile workers of the state. Hollings was decisively defeated by Johnston because Johnston used his position as Post Office and Civil Service Committee to build 40 new post offices in the state and thus demonstrate the pull he had in Washington to bring home the bacon.


1962 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Republican primary
W. D. Workman, Jr., a correspondent for the News and Courier, faced no opposition from South Carolina Republicans and avoided a primary election.


1962 United States Senate election in South Carolina, General election campaign
Both Johnston and Workman supported segregation, so the campaign centered on the economic issues of the state. Workman tried to persuade the voters that Johnston's policies were socialist and that he was too closely aligned with the Kennedy administration. Johnston was a consistent supporter of socialized health care proposals and Workman was able to win considerable support from the medical establishment. However, the state's citizens were much poorer than that of the rest of the nation and Johnston's class based appeals made him a very popular figure for the downtrodden of both the white and black races. The competitive nature of this race foresaw the eventual rise of the Republican Party and that South Carolinians were growing increasingly suspicious of policies generated at the federal level.


1962 United States Senate election in South Dakota
The 1962 United States Senate election in South Dakota took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican Senator Francis H. Case ran for re-election to a third term. He won the Republican primary against Attorney General A. C. Miller, but shortly after the primary, died. The Republican State Central Committee named Lieutenant Governor Joseph H. Bottum as Case's replacement on the ballot, and Governor Archie Gubbrud appointed Bottum to fill the vacancy caused by Case's death.


1962 United States Senate election in South Dakota
In the general election, Bottum was opposed by Democratic nominee George McGovern, the Director of Food for Peace and the former U.S. Congressman from South Dakota's 1st congressional district. The contest between Bottum and McGovern was quite close, with McGovern narrowly defeating him for re-election by just 597 votes, making him the first Democrat to win a Senate election in South Dakota since William J. Bulow's win in 1936.


1962 United States Senate election in South Dakota, Democratic Primary, Candidates
Former Lieutenant Governor John F. Lindley announced that he would run for the U.S. Senate, but dropped out of the race when former Congressman George McGovern, who briefly served in the Kennedy administration as Director of Food for Peace, announced that he would run. McGovern was the only Democratic candidate to file for the race, and the primary election did not appear on the ballot.


1962 United States Senate election in South Dakota, Republican Primary, Results
Several weeks after winning the Republican primary, Senator Case died in office. The Republican Party of South Dakota named Lieutenant Governor Joseph H. Bottum as Case's replacement on the ballot, and Governor Gubbrud appointed him as Case's successor.


1962 United States Senate election in Vermont
The 1962 United States Senate election in Vermont took place on November 6, 1962. Incumbent Republican George Aiken ran successfully for re-election to another term in the United States Senate, defeating Democratic nominee W. Robert Johnson.