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December 1962
The following events occurred in December 1962: December 1, 1962 (Saturday) *Ipswich Town F.C. scored a 2–0 upset win over Sheffield Wednesday F.C. in an England, English soccer football match that would turn out to have been fixed. On April 12, 1965, The Sunday People, ''The People'', a London tabloid newspaper, would break the story that three of the Sheffield players, including a national team player, Peter Swan (footballer, born 1936), Peter Swan, had bet on their team to lose, and had made a £100 profit. Swan, along with Tony Kay and David Layne, David "Bronco" Layne would be among 10 players sentenced to prison in 1965, and would serve four months' incarceration. *The 50th Grey Cup, 1962 Grey Cup, championship of the Canadian Football League, was played at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats before a crowd of 32,644. As the game progressed, a thick fog rolled onto the field, making visibility increasingly diffic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mariner 2
Mariner 2 (Mariner-Venus 1962), an American space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to report successfully from a planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact copy of Mariner 1. The missions of the Mariner 1 and 2 spacecraft are sometimes known as the Mariner R missions. Original plans called for the probes to be launched on the Atlas-Centaur, but serious developmental problems with that vehicle forced a switch to the much smaller Agena B second stage. As such, the design of the Mariner R vehicles was greatly simplified. Far less instrumentation was carried than on the Soviet Venera probes of this period—for example, forgoing a TV camera—as the Atlas-Agena B had only half as much lift capacity as the Soviet 8K78 booster. The Mariner 2 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 27, 1962, and passed as close as to Venus on D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
