* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Iris Häussler, German artist

* 1901 – Lowell Stockman, American politician ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Art Alexakis, American singer, composer, and guitarist ( Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes )

* 1962 – Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

* 1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director

* 1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor

* 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player

* 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player

* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Ellen Osiier, Danish fencer ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Thanos Kalliris, Greek singer-songwriter ( Bang )

* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor

Significant windstorms in Clark County include the Columbus Day windstorm of October 12, 1962, and an April 6, 1972 tornado which rated F3 on the Fujita scale, striking a local school.

It was founded in 1962 in the city of Columbus, Ohio, by the F. W.

In about 1960, it was extended east to the old highway ( Columbus Parkway ) between the cities, and was completed to the new bridge in about 1962, the year the bridge opened.

Extensive damage caused by the Columbus Day Storm in 1962 caused the owners to consider demolishing the building.

Although bad weather forces the plane to land short of Washington in Columbus, Ohio, after 55 hours 17 minutes continuously in the air, the flight nonetheless sets a new nonstop, unrefueled world distance record of 11, 235. 6 nautical miles ( 20, 807 km ) which stands for 16 years until broken by a U. S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress in 1962.

Klugman starred in several classic films including 12 Angry Men in 1957 ( as Juror 5 ; he is the last surviving actor to play a juror in the movie ), Days of Wine and Roses in 1962, and Goodbye, Columbus in 1969.

The team relocated several times, playing in Charleston, South Carolina ( 1959 – 1961 ), Savannah, Georgia ( 1962 ), Lynchburg, Virginia ( 1963-1965 ), and Evansville, Indiana, ( 1966-1968 ), before moving to Columbus, Georgia in 1969 to play in Golden Park.

In 1934 the Civilian Conservation Corps built the first trail to the summit, however, it was destroyed in the 1962 Columbus Day Storm.

The trail to the west was originally built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, but was washed out in the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.

Later parts of the old transmitting equipment was loaned to KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon, due to the Columbus Day Storm damage of 1962.

In 1962, the Columbus Day Storm downed an estimated 140 MMBF of timber and created many log jams on the rivers.

The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 ( also known as the Big Blow, and originally as Typhoon Freda ) was an extratropical cyclone that struck the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962.

The Astoria and Hoquiam records were broken by a major storm on December 12, 1995 ( which measured at Astoria ); this event, however, did not generate winds as intense as the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. ( now MetLife ) named the Columbus Day Storm the nation's worst natural disaster of 1962.

* Detailed analysis of the 1962 Columbus Day windstorm in Oregon and Washington: Monthly Weather Review article

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# Redirect Columbus Day Storm of 1962

In an effort to break into the more lucrative North Island market, both Max Merritt & The Meteors and Ray Columbus & the Invaders relocated to Auckland in November 1962.

Andrew Hampsten ( born April 7, 1962 in Columbus, Ohio ) is an American former professional road bicycle racer who won the 1988 Giro d ' Italia and the Alpe d ' Huez stage of the 1992 Tour de France.

The KGW-TV tower was a prominent victim of the Northwest's historic, violent Columbus Day Storm on Friday, October 12, 1962.

When the agency formally began operations on January 1, 1962, it controlled six commodity-type and two service-type single managers: Defense Clothing & Textile Supply Center, ( formerly the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot ); Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio ; Defense General Supply Center, Richmond, Virginia ; Defense Medical Supply Center, Brooklyn, New York ; Defense Petroleum Supply Center, Washington, D. C .; Defense Subsistence Supply Center, Chicago, Illinois ; Defense Traffic Management Service, Washington, D. C .; and Defense Logistics Services Center, Washington, D. C. Officials estimated that the consolidation of these functions under DSA and subsequent unified operations would allow them to reduce the workforce by 3, 300 people and save more than $ 30 million each year.

* Parkside Elementary School ; Columbus, Indiana ; 1962

If Pacific Northwest cyclones competed for " strongest storm on record ," the final round would probably be between the windstorm of January 9, 1880, and the infamous Columbus Day Storm of 1962.