What important news happened on April 1 1962?

Answer 1

James Hanratty, who was found guilty of the A6 murder of Michael Gregsten in 1961, was hanged at Bedford prison. The case was highly controversial at the time, as there appeared to be genuine grounds for doubt over the safety of the conviction. The case undoubtedly increased public concern about the death penalty in the UK which was abolished in 1965.

Answer 2

1. On July 20, 1969, the human race accomplished its single greatest technological achievement of all time when a human first set foot on another celestial body. Six hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the �Small Step� into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named �Eagle,� onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him. He was shortly joined by �Buzz� Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module �Columbia,� in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.

2. Manson murders

3. Zodiac Killer

4. Woodstock

Answer 3

American U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR (Russia)

Sit-ins by blacks integrate lunch counter in N. Carolina

Contraceptive pill introduced

First man in space is Russian Yuri Gagarin

First American in space is Alan Shepard

John F. Kennedy became President of USA

Demonstrations against the Vietnam War

Cold War tensions between USA & USSR, both have Hydrogen bombs & ICBMs

Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin Wall erected to keep people from fleeing to the West

Peace Corps created

First inter-planetary probe, to Venus

John F. Kennedy assassinated

LSD (psychedelic, hallucinogenic drug)

Hippies

Mini-skirts

Beatles, rock group from England

Rolling Stones rock group

many rock groups

Valium anti-anxiety pill introduced

Martin Luther King fights for Civil Rights

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and The Voting Rights Act of 1965

Watts riots in L.A.

B-52 bomber collides with tanker, Hydrogen bomb lost at sea, later recovered

First artificial heart pump implanted

Communist China develops Hydrogen Bomb too

First heart transplant

Apollo 1 fire on launchpad kills 3 American astronauts

Half a million American troops in Vietnam

Israel threatened by Arab coalition, wins Six Day War

Martin Luther King assassinated

Robert Kennedy assassinated

Nixon elected president USA

Charles Manson cult murders Sharon Tate & 3 others

Americans land on the Moon

Woodstock, giant music festival

Concord super-sonic passenger jet

for more, Google "1960s news"

Answer 4

The closest i can get is April 12 1962 - the first man was sent into space, Russian cossmanaut Yuri gagarin.