The 1962 Tour de France was the 49th edition of the Tour de France, one
of cycling's Grand Tours. The 4,274-kilometre (2,656 mi) race consisted
of 22 stages, including two split stages, starting in Nancy on 24 June
and finishing at the Parc des Princes in Paris on 15 July. For the
first time since 1929, the Tour was contested by trade teams instead of
national teams. Victory in the individual time trial of stage 20 put
Jacques Anquetil (pictured) in the general classification leader's
yellow jersey, which he held until the conclusion of the race to win his
third Tour de France, defending his title. Jef Planckaert placed second,
and Raymond Poulidor third. In the other race classifications, Rudi
Altig won the points classification, and Federico Bahamontes won the
mountains classification. Anquetil's team Saint-
Raphaël–Helyett–Hutchinson won the team classification, and Eddy
Pauwels won the award for most combative rider. Altig and Emile Daems
won the most stages, with three each.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Tour_de_France>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1897:
The first Blackwall Tunnel (construction pictured) under the
River Thames was opened to improve commerce and trade in the East End of
London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwall_Tunnel>
1960:
The most powerful earthquake ever recorded, registering
approximately 9.5 Mw, struck near Valdivia, Chile, generating tsunamis
that reached Hawaii and Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake>
1980:
Location testing for Pac-Man, a Japanese arcade game that
became an icon of 1980s popular culture, began in Shibuya, Tokyo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man>
2010:
Upon landing in Mangalore, Air India Express Flight 812
overshot the runway and fell down a hillside, killing 158 of the 166
people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Express_Flight_812>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mouthbrooder:
(zoology) Any animal that cares for its offspring, either eggs or
juveniles, by holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mouthbrooder>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To glimpse one’s own true nature is a kind of homegoing, to a
place East of the Sun, West of the Moon — the homegoing that needs no
home, like that waterfall on the upper Suli Gad that turns to mist
before touching the earth and rises once again into the sky.
--Peter Matthiessen
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Matthiessen>