# Apparently, 1962 was a big year **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734 "2012-10-04T19:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/21 "2012-10-06T03:06:40Z")
My wife was born. Best year ever. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/22 "2012-10-06T06:19:28Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I still have mine. But not a complete set (sob) Fortunately, you can view the entire set online at places like this: [http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Mars-Attacks/index.html](http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Mars-Attacks/index.html) I think they published a book of them also. But that just makes me sadder. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/23 "2012-10-06T06:59:43Z")
1962 \ the year the Giants lost to the Yankees in Game 7 when McCovey lined out with two outs in the bottom of the 9th … a defining memory for me. Or as Charlie Brown put it “Why couldn’t McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?” [Obligatory Peanuts cartoon](http://southcarolina1670.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/giants-chase-ghosts-of-past-with-victory/) Yeah, I finally got over it in 2010! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/24 "2012-10-06T23:00:52Z")
Suzuka Circuit constructed. They’ll be racing there in about 5 hours. As for the Viet Nam war, I’ll bet if you asked a Vietnamese, you would get a different answer. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/25 "2012-10-06T23:16:19Z")
My father, married to his second wife, seduced my mother, an 18-year old. I, however, didn’t arrive till 1963. ---
**Author:** ![tonyfop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/26 "2012-10-06T23:18:13Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > It seemed like I was hearing the phrase “50th Anniversary” over and over all year. Here’s the stuff that happened in 1962: > > [ul] > [li]Creation of the Houston Astros[/li] > [/ul] Actually, they were the Houston Colt .45’s when they were founded in 1962. And, since baseball always expands in even numbers, 1962 also saw the birth of those lovable losers, the Ever Amazin’ New York Mets. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/27 "2012-10-06T23:24:51Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > You forgot me learning how to walk. That’s what I was going to say! ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/28 "2012-10-07T06:43:00Z")
Seattle World’s Fair, and the birth of the Space Needle. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/29 "2012-10-07T06:55:17Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I got my PhD in 1962. Great year. I am truly sorry to have to say this, but that’s the year my DH was born. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/30 "2012-10-07T11:27:48Z")
> [@tonyfop](#): > > …1962 also saw the birth of those lovable losers, the Ever Amazin’ New York Mets. Gave up their first run on a balk, didn’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/31 "2012-10-07T20:53:15Z")
1962: **Cartooniverse** emerges from uterus, refuses to breathe at first. Establishes lifelong pattern of stubbornness and asthma. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/32 "2012-10-08T13:00:52Z")
It also had possibly the most powerful nontropical wind storm to hit the US in the 20th century: The [Columbus Day Storm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_Storm). One problem in determining top winds is that most anemometers were destroyed before the storm peaked. (Assuming they were even designed to accurately measure such high winds.) So you see numbers like “145+ mph” or “reports of 170 mph winds”. Immense devastation over a wide area. 46 dead. Got very little national coverage since it wasn’t a hurricane and it was the Northwest, which few people in the East cared about at the time. These kind of storms hit the NW every few years. A couple years later another one hit, but not on a holiday so unnamed. The local fire station gauge measured 126 mph and then blew away. And that’s 100 miles inland and low lying. Imagine the winds at the top of the coast mountains. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/33 "2012-10-09T17:38:52Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > And me… And me too… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/34 "2012-10-09T17:48:14Z")
Another 1962 birth checking in. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734/35 "2012-10-09T18:04:50Z")
> [@nivlac](#): > > Or as Charlie Brown put it “Why couldn’t McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?” [“Or why couldn’t McCovey have hit the ball even TWO feet higher?”](http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/01/28) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-1962-was-a-big-year/636734.md?page=1)