What day of the week was August 15, 1962?

The day of the week August 15th, 1962 fell on was a Wednesday.

Tom Colicchio the American chef and author was born on 15 August in 1962. As was Vilja Savisaar-Toomast the Estonian politician .

Lei Feng the Chinese soldier (b. 1940) died on this day in 1962.

James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital the Pyongyang.