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1962Aug, 17

Dan Dakich

Dan Dakich, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
Daniel John Dakich (born August 17, 1962) is an American basketball sportscaster and is considered America's Greatest Sports Talk Show Host by Barrett Sports Media. He is a former player, assistant coach, interim head coach for the Indiana University Hoosiers and former head coach at Bowling Green State University. He currently hosts the radio show Don't @ Me" for OutKick. According to Top Executives At ESPN Dakich is "the best hoops analyst ESPN ever had"

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Events on 1962

  • 5Feb

    Charles de Gaulle

    French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
  • 5Aug

    Nelson Mandela

    Apartheid in South Africa: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
  • 18Sep

    Jamaica

    Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
  • 27Oct

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
  • 6Nov

    Apartheid

    The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.