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Tuesday April 3rd 1962

On this day in 1962, Judy Garland announced she planned to file for a legal separation from her husband of 10 years, Sid Luft. At the time, Garland was under Oscar consideration for her supporting role in "Judgment at Nuremberg". She and Luft reconciled but were ultimately to divorce in 1965.

Again, just the one cover today (just wait, I'll make up for it on the 7th ).

A commercial cover from South Vietnam:

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Peter

Wednesday April 4th 1962

On this day in 1962, AEC and the Department of Defence made a joint announcement designating an 800-by-600 mile area around Christmas Island in the Pacific as a U.S. nuclear test area, effective April 15.

Let's start today with a commercial cover from Aden:


Here's a first day cover for the UNICEF issue from Taiwan:



I'll finish today with first day covers for one of the iconic stamp issues from San Marino. I think the 1 lira value was in every stamp mixture when I was a kid:

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Peter

Thursday April 5th 1962

On this day in 1962, X-15 No. 3 was flown by NASA’s Neil Armstrong to a speed of 2,830 mph (mach 4.06) and to an altitude of 179,000 ft. in a test of new adaptive control system. Whereas the previous control system was automatic only while the X-15 was within the atmosphere but the pilot had to control flight with reaction jets while in space, the new system would be automatic in both regimes.

A bit of a cheat today. Just the one commemorative cover for Eurovision, held April 5 - 9 in Seville, Spain:


Now this isn't commemorating the famous song contest (which was held in Luxembourg in March that year). This is for a conference of broadcasters.

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Peter

Friday April 6th 1962

On this day in 1962, Swiss and Italian workers celebrated after they managed to join their tunnels to complete the route through the St Bernard Pass. Construction had been underway for four years.

Two covers today. A first day cover from Italy:



and a first flight cover from India:

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Peter

Congrats Petercollects0 on winning the STAMPBOARDS poster of the month prize...

Keep up the effort. GREAT!!!!

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Started to collect post-Independence India, help me complete the voids
http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29439

Collecting Canada (just started) and CHESS on stamps.!!!!!!

Peter, congratulations, you have won the Australia Post 2011 Year Book for the best Post/Thread of the Month for March 2012. See the thread linked below, and please contact Glen to obtain your well deserved prize.

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8100&start=950

Norm

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Geelong, VFA Premiers 1878, 1879, 1800, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, AFL Premiers 1925, 1931, 1937, 1951, 1952, 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011, .

Thanks Norm - always welcome with this sort of news

Special thanks to drvvr for the nomination, I very much appreciate your kind words.

Now I'd like to dedicate this thread to all the 30-year-olds on Stampboards

Cheers

Peter

Can I (a geriatric much older than you) suggest that you revise your times tables.

Of course you could start a thread titled '1982 A Cover a Day'

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Here to learn
Here to enjoy

Cheers Kevin - just following Gavin-h's lead (see post 3 on the thread).

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Peter

Saturday April 7th 1962

On this day in 1962, a five-man military tribunal in Cuba convicted the 1,179 surviving attackers of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of an attempt to overthrow the government a year earlier, with a sentence of 30 years incarceration for each prisoner. The tribunal levied "fines" totaling $62 million for the release of the prisoners. The United States would negotiate release of the men by the end of the year with the delivery of $53,000,000 worth of medicine and food.

A lot of covers today as many countries issued stamps on 7 April as part of the world wide anti Malaria campaign. Before we get into those, lets start with the return cover from yesterday's Indian first flight to Moscow:

Special thanks to Ycrem for these flight covers

and here's a non-malaria first day cover from France:

Saturday April 7th 1962... continued..

Now, on to the World Health Organisation Anti-Malaria campaign. Guinea issued their overprints for the campaign on 23 February and the Swiss followed with an issue on March 19. The United Nations themselves and the United States issued their stamps on March 30. The campaign expanded dramatically on 7 April....

Let's start with a couple of slogan cancels from New Zealand and Denmark:




Denmark also had a meter cancel:



as did Congo and Egypt:




(these are only a couple of examples)

Saturday April 7th 1962... continued..

Now to a selection of the stamp issues:

Cambodia



India:





Indonesia:

Saturday April 7th 1962... completed.

And to finish....

Thailand:



South Vietnam:



Of course, this selection just scratches the surface, there were a large number of issues, and cachets.....

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Peter

Sunday April 8th 1962

On this day in 1962, the Évian Accords were ratified in a referendum held in France, with 9 out of every 10 French voters in favor of letting French Algeria become its own independent nation. The final result was 17,866,423 in favor of Algerian independence, and 1,809,074 against.

Also on this day, the Washington Post published a survey which had tested support for a proposal by Soviet nuclear scientist, Dr. Peter Kapitza to fire rockets loaded with radioactive waste into outer space. Washington-area clergymen responded variousIy. Comments on the proposal ranged from a “dreadful desecration of the Heavens” to a “fulfillment of the divine commandment to protect man and the earth on which he dwells.”

After yesterday's deluge, just one cover today, from Finland:

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Peter

Monday April 9th 1962

On this day in 1962 the 34th Academy Awards, hosted by Bob Hope, were held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in California. Two pictures garnered 11 nominations - West Side Story and Judgment at Nuremberg. In the end West Side Story collected 10 awards (including best picture) whilst Judgment at Nuremberg won two.

Let's start today with a first day cover from Norfolk Island:



and two meter covers - a taxed one from Ireland:


and a great one from Australia (Stop Fires cancel on a Fire Brigade Board cover):

Monday April 9th 1962...continued..

To finish, two commercial covers - Libya to the USA:



and the Congo to Denmark:

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Peter

Tuesday April 10th 1962

On this day in 1962, in advance of its independence from the United Kingdom, Jamaica held elections to determine its government. The Jamaica Labour Party won 26 of 45 parliamentary seats, making Alexander Bustamante the new Prime Minister.

Also on this day, Stuart Sutcliffe, the brilliant young painter who was a bass guitarist with The Beatles in their early period, died on this day of a brain haemorrhage.

Today's two covers are a simple meter cover from Australia..:



and a much busier cover from India:

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Peter

Wednesday April 11th 1962

On this day in 1962, the US space program was expanding rapidly and Robert J. Lacklen, NASA’s Director of Personnel, said that the first part of NASA’s nationwide recruiting drive to hire 2,000 scientists and engineers had ended, with the completion of the field work. During this phase, teams of interviewers contacted 14,000 persons, and interviewed 5,000. The second phase would involve setting up a national job register.

Also on this day, Dr. Ross A. McFarland of Harvard University was awarded the Walter Boothby Award by the Aerospace Medical Assn. for outstanding research directed at the promotion of health and prevention of disease in professional airline pilots.

Today we have a Finnish first day cover:



Two FDC from the United States:





and a UK commercial cover with a Radio License reminder:

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Peter

Thursday April 12th 1962

This day in 1962 was a national holiday in the Soviet Union, the first anniversary of the orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. In a ceremony in the Kremlin’s Congress Hall, Cosmonaut Gagarin declared: “We are on the threshold of more new space launchings. When these space ships return to earth, the Soviet people will have more holidays to celebrate.”

The Pravda editorial of the day extolled the future of communism as demonstrated by Soviet space achievements as follows: “The successes of the Soviet conquerors of space reflect the great achievements of the of our homeland, the indisputable advantages of socialism, and its superiority over the capitalist system. The most reasonable representatives of the western world cannot fail to admit that socialism, as Comrade Khrushchev put it, is indeed the reliable launching pad from which the Soviet Union launches its spaceships.

Let's start with a first day cover from East Germany celebrating Gagarin's achievement (although I suspect his capsule was more cramped than that depicted):


I'm also not sure about the accuracy of the view....


Also from Berlin we have this first day cover:



and to finish, a cover postmarked for SCOTEX:

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Peter

Great thread, and I wrote it up this month with Peter's assistance with the scans.

http://www.glenstephens.com/snmay12.html

Hopefully we will winkle out his 2 missing August covers he needs for completion.

Glen

Friday April 13th 1962

On this day in 1962, NASA Administrator James E. Webb, addressing the National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration in Detroit, gave an insight into the magnitude of the American space effort when he said: “No new department or agency in the recent history of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government was created through the transfer of as many units from other departments and agencies as in the case of NASA. Three and one half years ago, NASA did not exist. Today NASA comprises approximately 20,500 employees, ten major field centers, and an annual budget approaching the $2 billion mark.”

All commercial covers today. A tatty one from Poland:



a large cover from the UK:



and another from the Bahamas:

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Peter

Saturday April 14th 1962

On this day in 1962, Fidel Castro, "in an unexpected burst of generosity", allowed 60 of the 1,179 Bay of Pigs invaders to be released from Principe Prison for reasons of health, and to be flown from Havana to Miami on a Pan American World Airways jet, without conditions. Perhaps he'd been listening to the number 1 chart hit in the UK that day - Blue Hawaii by Elvis.

Let's start today with two first day covers from Greece:




and two from Paraguay:

Saturday April 14th 1962... continued...

Back on April 7, I featured a number of FDC relating to the anti-malaria campaign. Here is the contribution from French Polynesia:



To finish I thought I'd share two covers from towns with unusual names (at least to me...) First "Moose Jaw" Saskatchewan, Canada:



and "Beaver Meadows" Pennsylvania, USA:

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Peter

Sunday April 15th 1962

On this day in 1962, US Marine Corps operational involvement in the Vietnam War began on this Palm Sunday when Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron Light (HMM) 362 with their Sikorsky UH-34s, arrived at Soc Trang in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Archie Clapp.

Coincidentally, on the same day, the Bass Hill (NSW) RSL club Memorial was dedicated.

Let's start today in the Middle East with a first day cover from Jordan:



and two from Kuwait:





and a commercial cover from Mozambique:

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Peter

Monday April 16th 1962

On this day in 1962, folk singer Bob Dylan, who had recently released his debut album, made the first public performance of what would become his signature song, "Blowin' in the Wind". The setting was Gerde's Folk City, a "jazz club" located at 11 West 4th Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.

Two registered covers today. A commercial cover from Paraguay:



and a large (and over franked) first day cover from Laos:

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Peter

Tuesday April 17th 1962
On this day in 1962, Reuters reported that the Tower of London had been asked by Airresearch Manufacturing Co., of Los Angeles, for information on the finely articulated joints in a suit of armour once worn by Henry VIII as a possible aid in spacesuit design. The 94-lb. suit of armor was designed for jousting tournaments with the wearer on foot; it covered the whole body and its joints permitted full mobility.

Just one commercial cover today, from the Congo:

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Peter

Wednesday April 18th 1962

On this day in 1962, what was described as a fireball (a brighter than usual meteoroid) exploded ten miles south of the town of Eureka, Utah at 8:15 pm local time. The burst of light was visible across the western United States, as far east as Gridley, Kansas. Although subsequent retellings of the story have referred to the sighting as an unidentified flying object that "landed near a power plant" in Eureka, stayed for 40 minutes, and blacked out the entire town until its departure, contemporary reports indicated that only the town's street lights were off momentarily because the photo-sensors reacted to the daylight-like brightness.

(unrelated trivia - Eureka is the birthplace of Frank Zamboni, inventor of the modern ice resurfacer, commonly known as a "Zamboni.")

Today's two covers are one from the Philippines (actually just a front):



and a large registered cover from Nepal:

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Peter

Thursday April 19th 1962

On this day in 1962, the five hundred and ninetieth meeting of the American Mathematical Society came to an end. The meeting, with 573 attendees, was held over 4 days in Atlantic City and included a symposium in five sessions on the Interactions between Mathematical Research and High Speed Computing, jointly sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Mathematical Society, with the financial support of the U. S. Army Research Center, Durham and the National Science Foundation.

Let's start with a Canadian contribution to the anti-malaria campaign:



next a nice cover from Chad:


and to finish, a cover from Papua and New Guinea to Hawaii:

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Peter

Friday April 20th 1962

On this day in 1962, NASA Pilot Neil Armstrong, operating from Edwards Air Force Base in California flew X-15 NO. 3 to 207,000 ft. and 3,818 mph (mach 5.33) in a test of a special adaptive control system.

Today we have two first day covers from Japan:





and a commercial cover from Senegal:

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Peter

Saturday April 21st 1962

On this day in 1962, the Century 21 Exposition World's Fair opened in Seattle, Washington. In addition to the 606 foot tall Space Needle building, which became a symbol of Seattle, the Fair included a carnival that would "fit a working man's budget". The carnival, in operation for the duration of the fair, was called "Gayway". The fair would run until October 21, with 9,609,969 people attending over six months.

Sadly, a flight formation of 24 U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy jets (part of the opening ceremonies for the Fair), ended in tragedy. One of the F-102 Dagger jet fighters experienced flight trouble. The pilot ejected safely, but the jet crashed into the suburb of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, destroying two homes and killing an elderly couple. The five member family who lived in the other home, had gone on Easter vacation to avoid the traffic associated with the fair opening.

Fittingly, today's cover is postmarked at the Space Needle:

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Peter

Easter Sunday April 22nd 1962

On this day in 1962, Jacqueline Cochran became first woman to pilot a jet aircraft across the Atlantic and claimed 49 world records in 5,120- mile flight from New Orleans, La., to Hanover, Germany, in a Lockheed Jet Star.

Also on this day, the English Video Games programmer, Jeff Minter was born. For those who like me spent far too much time in the early '80s trying to program in assembly language, Jeff was an a bit of an icon. He was also one of the pioneers of the shareware concept, particularly with his Atari ST, Amiga and PC game Llamatron.

Today's cover is a bit grubby and tatty but it appeals to me - a commercial cover from Gabon:

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Peter

Monday April 23rd 1962

On this day in 1962, the American Ranger 4 satellite was launched at 2:50 pm local time from Cape Canaveral, with the objective of gathering data from the Moon. A few hours later, ground control found that the satellite would be unable to keep still enough to provide useful information. One NASA official commented, "All we've got is an idiot with a radio signal." (sounds like late night talkback )

Today we have a philatelic cover from Detroit:



a commercial cover from Malaya:



and an Australian cover to Trieste with Chest X-ray slogan cancel:

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Peter

Tuesday April 24th 1962

On this day in 1962, in a joint session of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev was re-elected as Premier of the Soviet Union, and Leonid Brezhnev was re-elected as President of the Presidium. Khrushchev would be replaced on October 14, 1964 as both the Premier (by Alexei Kosygin) and Communist Party First Secretary, by Brezhnev.

Let's start today with a first day cover from Ghana:


and two from Czechoslovakia:

Tuesday April 24th 1962... continued

next we have a large cover from India:





and to finish, a cover from the UK with a local Lundy issue on the reverse - a segway to the 25th:

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Peter

Wednesday April 25th 1962

On this day in 1962, the United States resumed atmospheric nuclear testing in Operation Dominic with the detonation of a medium-yield device dropped from an aircraft near Christmas Island in the Pacific.

Two first day covers today from the United States - this issue features the "Space Needle" which had opened as part of the World's Fair on the 21st:

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Peter

Thursday April 26th 1962

This day in 1962 was a very eventful day in space exploration: launched into orbit were ARIEL I, COSMOS IV, and two unidentified USAF satellites; RANGER IV impacted the far side of the moon; and a US.-Japanese probe was launched from Wallops Island.

Five covers today. Let's start with two first day covers from Europe:




then one from Somalia:

Thursday April 26th 1962...continued

to finish we have two commercial covers from Africa. First the Ivory Coast:



and a large express cover from Ethiopia:

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Peter

Friday April 27th 1962
On this day in 1962, George C. Barnhart, pioneer airman and inventor, died in Pasadena. Mr Barnhart held 70 aircraft patents, including one for wing tanks. In 1942, he had turned over his patent for split-edge wing flap, a landing brake used on conventional and jet aircraft, to the US Army Air Forces for the duration of the war. However thousands of planes were built during 1946-51 using the Barnhart flap for which he received no royalties. He had intended to sue the US Government for $10 million.

Today we have a first day cover from the Netherlands:


a philatelic cover from Westpex, San Fransisco:



and a cover from Trappist, Kentucky to South Australia:

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Peter

Saturday April 28th 1962
On this day in 1962, Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist and Nazi Party member who had saved more than 1,200 Polish Jews from extermination during World War II, was honored on his 54th birthday at the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, and proclaimed as a ger toshav ("a righteous Gentile").

One cover today, a rocket cover from Belgium:

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Peter

Saturday April 28th 1962...continued

Almost forgot this registered cover from Niger:

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Peter

Sunday April 29th 1962
On this day in 1962, in one of the largest White House state dinners in modern times, the President and Mrs. Kennedy hosted 173 scientists, educators and writers, including 49 Nobel Prize laureates from the Western Hemisphere. President Kennedy made the famous remark, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge ever gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of the 1954 prize in chemistry, picketed outside of the White House in an anti-nuclear demonstration earlier in the day, then went inside to join the President for dinner. On greeting Dr. Pauling, Kennedy said, "I'm glad you decided to come inside."

Three covers today - a first day cover from Taiwan:



A commercial cover from Saudi Arabia:



and a large cover from Kuwait with slogan "collection of stamps promotes education and saving":

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Peter

Monday April 30th 1962
On this day in 1962, the pamphlet "Burmese Way to Socialism" was published and distributed throughout Burma, explaining the political philosophies of General Ne Win, who had overthrown the government on March 2.

Also on this day, NASA test pilot Joe Walker set a new altitude record for a fixed wing aircraft, flying an X-15 jet up to 246,700 feet (75,190 meters). Afterwards, Walker told reporters "there is no question that we can put a winged vehicle in orbit and land it". On August 22, 1963, Walker would pass the 100 kilometer mark to reach outer space, though not orbit, in an airplane, attaining 107.955 km altitude.

It's all about first day covers today. First an anti Malaria cover from Albania:



Next two FDC from the United States:



and one from Japan:

Monday April 30th 1962...continued

To finish, four FDC from Israel:

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Peter

Two late arrivals from India and France to round out the covers of April 1962:




Including these two we have seen 113 postal items from 61 countries during April.

The variety continues in May.........

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Peter

Tuesday May 1st 1962
On this day in 1962, British scientists protested US. plans to explode “rainbow” bombs 500 miles above the Pacific test area (called “rainbow” bombs because high-altitude nuclear explosions light up the sky thousands of miles away). Sir Bernard Lovell, director of Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory, Martin Ryle, radio-astronomer, and Sir Mark Oliphant, Australian nuclear physicist, all protested the “probable” distortion of the Van Allen radiation belt by the forthcoming U.S. tests. Van Allen himself came out the next day in support of the tests.

One cover today. It started life as a blank first day cover from Lebanon, but at some time in its past has had a dodgy looking cachet added:

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Peter

Wednesday May 2nd 1962

On this day in 1962, the Royal Aeronautical Society announced that John C. Wimpenny had made first extended manned flight under his own power in his pedal-powered Puffin. A design engineer, Wimpenny flew 993 yards at an average speed of 19.5 mph and an altitude of 5 to 8 feet.

Let's start today with two first day covers from the Netherlands Antilles:





Next a commercial cover from the United States - Dept of Romance Languages to Paris seems appropriate :


and a large cover from India:

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Peter

Thursday May 3rd 1962
On this day in 1962, 160 people were killed in a triple-train disaster near Tokyo, Japan. A freight train drove through a red signal and sideswiped a commuter train. As surviving passengers climbed out of that train, a third train ran through them, then plunged over an embankment.

Let's start today with a cover from Czechoslovakia, complete with Cinderellas promoting the Praga Philatelic Exhibition:




next a first day cover from Greece: