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1962

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Years:	1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965

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**1962 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1962 MCMLXII
Ab urbe condita	2715
Armenian calendar	1411 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԱ
Chinese calendar	4598/4658-11-25 (辛丑年十一月廿五日) — to — 4599/4659-12-5 (壬寅年十二月初五日)
Ethiopian calendar	1954 – 1955
Hebrew calendar	5722 – 5723
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2017 – 2018
- Shaka Samvat	1884 – 1885
- Kali Yuga	5063 – 5064
Iranian calendar	1340 – 1341
Islamic calendar	1382 – 1383
Thai solar calendar	2505

1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). In Chinese Zodiac, the "year" of the Ox ended on February 4, 1962 and the "year" of the Tiger began on February 5, 1962.

[edit] Events

[edit] January

January 1 - Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
January 2 - NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins praises U.S. President John F. Kennedy's "personal role" in advancing civil rights.
January 3 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
January 4 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on board.
January 5 - The Beatles' first record, "My Bonnie" with Tony Sheridan, is released by Polydor.
January 8 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC).
January 9 - Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact.
January 10 - An avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in Peru causes 4000 deaths.
January 11 - A volcano erupts in the Peruvian Andes, causing an avalanche that buries 3000.
January 12 - The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian.
January 13 - Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China.
January 16 - A military coup occurs in the Dominican Republic.
January 19 - A counter-coup occurs in the Dominican Republic; the old government returns except for the new president Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly.
January 22 - The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership.
January 24 - The East German government readopts conscription.
January 24 - The OAS bombs the French Foreign Ministry.
January 26 - Mafioso Lucky Luciano dies at the Naples Airport.
January 26 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon; it later misses the Moon by 22,000 miles.
January 27 - The Soviet government changes all place names honoring Molotov, Kaganovich and Georgi Malenkov.
January 30 - Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed, when their famous 7-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.

[edit] February

February 2 - For the first time in 400 years, Neptune and Pluto align.
February 3 - The U.S. announces its trade embargo against Cuba.
February 4 - The Sunday Times becomes the first paper to print a colour supplement.
February 5 - French President Charles de Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
February 6 - Negotiations between U.S. Steel and the U.S. Department of Commerce begin.
February 7 - The United States Government bans all U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports.
February 9 - The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation opens.
February 10 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Berlin.
February 12 - Six members of the Committee of 100 of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are found guilty of a breach of the Official Secrets Act.
February 14 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
February 15 - Urho Kekkonen is re-elected president of Finland.
February 16 - Heavy storms flood Germany's North Sea coast, mainly around Hamburg; more than 300 people die, thousands lose their homes.
February 17 - Flooding occurs in the North Sea coasts.
February 20 - Project Mercury: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, 3 times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
February 23 - Twelve European countries form the European Space Agency.

[edit] March

March 1 - An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after its rudder separates from the tail, with the loss of all life on board.
March 2 - A military coup in Burma brings General Ne Win to power.
March 8-March 12 - In Geneva, France and the Algerian FLN begin negotiations.
March 15 - Katangan prime minister Moise Tshombe begins negotiations to rejoin Congo.
March 18 - France and Algeria sign an agreement in Evian ending the Algerian War. See Évian Accords.
March 18 - Un premier amour by Isabelle Aubret (music by Claude-Henri Vic, text by Roland Stephane Valade) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1962 for France.
March 19 - An armistice begins in Algeria; however, the Organisation armée secrète continues its terrorist attacks against Algerians.
March 23 - The Scandinavian States of the Nordic Council sign the Helsinki Convention on Nordic Co-operation.
March 24 - OAS leader Edmond Jouahud is arrested in Oran.
March 26 - France shortens the term for military service from 26 months to 18.
March 26 - Baker v. Carr: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Federal courts can order state legislatures to reapportion seats.

[edit] April

April 3 - Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto prime minister of India.
April 4 - James Hanratty is hanged in Bedford Gaol for the A6 murder; many believe he was innocent.
April 6 - Belgium reestablishes diplomatic relations with Congo.
April 7 - Author Milovan Djilas is arrested in Yugoslavia.
April 8 - In France, the Évian Accords are adopted in a referendum with a majority of 90%.
April 10 - In Los Angeles, California, the first MLB game is played at Dodger Stadium.
April 13 - OAS leader Edmond Jouhaud is sentenced to death in France.
April 14 - A Cuban military tribunal convicts 1,179 Bay of Pigs attackers.
April 18 - The Commonwealth Immigration Bill in the United Kingdom removes free immigration from the citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.
April 20 - OAS leader Raoul Salan is arrested in Algiers.
April 21 - The Century 21 World's Fair opens in Seattle, Washington.
April 26 - The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

[edit] May

May 2 - An OAS bomb explodes in Algeria - this and other attacks kill 110 and injure 147.
May 5 - Twelve East Germans escape via a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
May 14 - Juan Carlos of Spain marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.
May 14 - Milovan Djilas, former vice-president of Yugoslavia, is given further sentence for publishing Conversations with Stalin.
May 23 - Drilling for the new Montreal, Quebec subway commences.
May 23 - Raoul Salan, founder of the French terrorist Organisation armée secrète, is sentenced to life imprisonment in France.
May 24 - Project Mercury: Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth 3 times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
May 24 - In Lima, Peru, an unpopular referee ruling in a Peru-Argentina soccer match causes a riot and panic (300 dead, over 500 injured).
May 25 - The new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated.
May 29 - Negotiations between the OAS and the FLA lead to a real armistice in Algeria.
May 30 - The 1962 FIFA World Cup begins in Chile.
May 31 - Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.

[edit] June

June 3 - An Air France Boeing 707 Chateau de Sully over-runs the runway at Orly Airport in Paris; 130 of 132 passengers are killed, 2 stewardesses survive. Most victims are cultural and civic leaders of Atlanta, Georgia.
June 6 - President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
June 11 - President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at Yale University.
June 11 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only apparently successful escapees from the Alcatraz Island prison. There is no conclusive evidence that they survived the attempt.
June 15 - Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement.
June 17 - The OAS signs a truce with the FLN in Algeria, but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf of French Algerians.
June 17 - Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3-1 to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup.
June 22 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board. It is the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks.
June 25 - Engel v. Vitale: The United States Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.
June 26 - A 2-day steel strike begins in Italy, in support of increased wages and 5-day working week.
June 30 - The last soldiers of the French Foreign Legion leave Algeria.

[edit] July

July 1 - Rwanda and Burundi gain independence.
July 1 - Supporters of Algerian independence win 99% majority in a referendum.
July 1 - Another heavy smog develops over London.
July 2 - Charles De Gaulle accepts Algerian independence; France recognizes it the next day.
July 5 - Algeria becomes independent from France.
July 6 - Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne presents his first edition of The Late Late Show. Byrne goes on to present the talk show for 37 years, making it the longest running in the world.
July 10 - AT&T's Telstar, the world's first commercial communications satellite, is launched into orbit, and activated the next day.
July 12 - The Rolling Stones make their debut at London's Marquee Club, Number 165 Oxford Street, opening for Long John Baldry.
July 13 - In what the press dubs the "the Night of the Long Knives", United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses one-third of his Cabinet.
July 17 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
July 19 - The First Annual Swiss & Wielder Hoop and Stick Tournament is held.
July 20 - France and Tunisia reestablish diplomatic relations.
July 22 - Mariner program: The Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
July 23 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
July 28 - A locust swarm threatens New Delhi.
July 31 - Algeria proclaims independence; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President.
July 31 - A crowd assaults the rally of Sir Oswald Mosley's right-wing Union Movement in London.

[edit] August

August 5 - Film actress and sex icon Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles, California home, after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills.
August 5 - The South African government arrests Nelson Mandela in Howick, and charges him with incitement to rebellion.
August 6 - Jamaica becomes independent.
August 15 - The

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