Compiled form internet sources.

1st-Born: Anne Donovan, Ridgewood NJ, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1984); Kim Krizan, California, writer/actress (Slacker, Dazed & Confused); Women Strike for Peace held its first event, as thousands of American women, most of them housewives concerned over the contamination of strontium-90 from fallout, marched in 60 different U.S. cities to demand an end to further nuclear testing. Estimates of the number of participants ranged from 25,000 to 50,000

2nd-The cover of Oleg Penkovsky, who had passed along top secret Soviet information to American CIA agents operating in the U.S.S.R., was blown, after four KGB agents caught a CIA case officer in the act of picking up information that had been dropped off. The CIA man was expelled; the execution of Penkovsky would be announced on May 17, 1963

3rd-General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general; the White House Historical Association was created as a result of the efforts of U.S. First Lady Jackie Kennedy for maintenance of the American presidential residence. Money was raised through the sales of the Association's book, The White House: An Historic Guide

4th-Born: Kathy Griffin, American comedian

7th-France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria; The most damaging blaze in Southern California history destroyed hundreds of homes one of the wealthiest areas of the United States in the Hollywood Hills, including the houses of actors Burt Lancaster, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Joe E. Brown; José María Velasco Ibarra was pressured into resigning as President of Ecuador. The Ecuadorian Army had the oath of office administered to Supreme Court President Camilo Gallegos Toledo. Ten minutes later, the Ecuadorian Congress voted to elevate Vice-President Carlos Arosemena (who had been jailed by the Army the day before) to the post

8th-Born: Leif Garrett, Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road); Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn; the crash of a chartered Imperial Airlines Constellation airplane killed 77 of the 79 persons on board, most of them U.S. Army recruits who were being flown to basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. After taking off from Baltimore, the plane sustained a stall of two of its four engines and was attempting an emergency landing at Richmond, before crashing into a wooded ravine at 9:24 p.m.

9th-PGA eliminates caucasians only rule

10th-Griswold v. Connecticut: Nine days after opening a birth control clinic in New Haven, Connecticut in defiance of a state law prohibiting the use of "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception", Estelle Griswold of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and Dr. C. Lee Buxton, were arrested. Their challenge went to the United States Supreme Court, which ruled in 1965 that laws that infringed upon marital privacy were unconstitutional

11th-Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots; Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's comm party; Stalingrad renamed Volgograd

12th-Born: Jonathan Nossiter, American film director

13th-Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.

14th-Born: D B Sweeney, actor (Cutting Edge, Fire in the Sky, Day in October); Gordon Jennison Noice, American actor

15th-UN bans nuclear arms

16th-Died: Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies at 79; Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries

17th-Born: Robert Stethem, U.S. Navy Seabee diver murdered by terrorists on TWA Flight 847 (d. 1985)

18th-"Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 113 performances; JFK sends 18,000 military advisers to South Vietnam; US Ranger 2 launched to Moon and failed

19th -Born: Meg Ryan, Bethel Ct, actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns)

22nd-Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues; producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star

25th-NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points

26th-Born: Lisa Moretti, American professional wrestler

27th-Born: Lee Johnson, NFL punter/kicker (Cincinnati Bengals; Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian

28th-Ernest Davis is first black man to win Heisman Trophy

29th-Born: Kim Delaney, Phila, actress (All My Children, Tour of Duty, NYPD Blue); Freedom Riders attacked by a white mob at a bus station in Mississippi; Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit

30th-Born: Innocent Egbunike, Nigeria, 4x400m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984); USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership