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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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