April 9th

On this day in 1962...

• The 34th Academy Awards ceremony is held; West Side Story wins Best Picture and nine other awards; Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Hustler, Judgment at Nuremberg all win two 

 

• The United States Marine Corps' involvement in the Vietnam War began when HMM-362 arrived at Soc Trang south of Saigon.
• The Cosmonautics Day holiday was established in the Soviet Union, a year after the first manned space flight.
• Police in Marseilles recovered eight Paul Cezanne paintings in a parked car in a street in Marseille, they had been stolen on August 13 while on loan to a museum in Aix-en-Provence.  Police initially suspected the car was used for some sort of crime after a check discovered it had false licence plates. They observed it for one day hoping someone would return for the stolen paintings, which were sitting in the back seat. No one ever did.

The Card Players

Reflections in the Water