page_title: September 1962
section_title: September 26, 1962 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1962 / September 26, 1962 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Publicity photo of Buddy Ebsen and Irene Ryan from The Beverly Hillbillies. Episode is "The Clampetts in Washington"
context_page_description: The following events occurred in September 1962:
context_section_description: The Beverly Hillbillies, a television situation comedy about a poor Ozark Mountains family who became multi-millionaires after oil was found on their land, began a nine-year run on the CBS network, with the first episode premiering at 9:00 pm Eastern time.  UPI television critic Rick Du Brow wrote the next day that the series "is going to be a smash hit" in that it was similar in premise to TV program The Real McCoys, but added that "The nicest thing I can say... is that it is really not like 'The Real McCoys'... The McCoys are a civilized rural clan; these new hillbillies make L'il Abner and his mob look like a bunch of sophisticates   Within three weeks, it was the most-watched series on American television, and stayed at #1 in its first two seasons. The show had 274 episodes, with the final one broadcast on March 23, 1971.
  A flash flood in the Catalan region of Spain killed 445 people, in Barcelona and in the nearby villages of Sabadell and Terrassa.
  As the North Yemen Civil War progressed, all areas of the Yemeni city of San'a were in the hands of the new Yemen government, led by Abdullah as-Sallal, and he proclaimed the Yemen Arab Republic.
  Restaurant entrepreneur Harland Sanders filed a patent application for his invention, a "process of producing fried chicken under pressure", describing a system using a pressure cooker with the object "to provide a novel process for quickly and thoroughly frying chicken under pressure in a manner to seal in substantially all the natural juices while browning the breaded surface thereof to desired crispness and appearance."  U.S. Patent No. 3,245,800 would be granted on April 12, 1966, and was assigned by Sanders to the Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation.  
  Born:
  Chunky Pandey, Indian film actor, in Bombay (now Mumbai)
  Mark Haddon, English author of children's books, in Northampton
caption: Irene Ryan and Buddy Ebsen
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