TimeDb - What happend in 1962

Events

Date	Event
1962	Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah Was Born
1962	Michael Abels Was Born
1962	Mark Adamo Was Born
1962	Ernst Arnold Died
1962	Wolfram Buchenberg Was Born
1962	Sylvia Constantinidis Was Born
1962	David Crumb Was Born
1962	Hanns Eisler Died
1962	Samuil Feinberg Died
1962	Carlo Giorgio Garofalo Died
1962	Andrew Glover Was Born
1962	Eugene Aynsley Goossens Died
1962	Jennifer Higdon Was Born
1962	Jacques Ibert Died
1962	John Ireland Died
1962	Manolis Kalomiris Died
1962	Fritz Kreisler Died
1962	Ricard Lamote de Grignon Died
1962	Felice Lattuada Died
1962	Fran Lhotka Died
1962	Ricardo Llorca Was Born
1962	Laura Schwendinger Was Born
January 11 1962	Alex Shapiro Was Born
1962	Fredrik Sixten Was Born
1962	Giovanni Sollima Was Born
1962	Rudi Spring Was Born
February 17 1962	Bruno Walter Died
January 01 1962	United States Navy SEALs Established
January 01 1962	Western Samoa Achieves Independence, Changes Name
1962	P. Q. Phan Was Born
1962	Wolfram Wagner Was Born
1962	Lou Briel Was Born
1962	John Young Was Born
1962	Graham Waterhouse Was Born
1962	Niel van der Watt Was Born
January 03 1962	Pope John XXIII Excommunicates Castro
January 08 1962	Netherlands Harmelen Train Disaster Kills 93 People
January 10 1962	NASA Announces Plan To Build C-5 Rocket Launcher
January 11 1962	Soviet Submarine B-37 Destroyed In Polyarny
January 11 1962	A Peruvian Avalanche Kills 4,000
January 12 1962	U.S. Begins Combat In Vietnam
January 15 1962	Europe's Oldest Manuscript Found In Northern Greece
January 22 1962	OAS Suspends Cuba
January 26 1962	Ranger 3 Launched. Misses Moon By 22,000m
February 05 1962	Charles De Gaulle Granted Algerian Independence
February 07 1962	U.S. Bans Cuba Trade
February 08 1962	French Nazi Papon Instigates Charonne Massacre
February 10 1962	Gary Powers Exchanged For Soviet Rudolf Abel
February 10 1962	First Exhibition Of Roy Lichtenstein Opened
February 14 1962	Jackie Kennedy Presents White House TV Tour
February 16 1962	West Germany Flooding Kills 315
February 20 1962	Glenn First American To Orbit Earth
February 27 1962	South Vietnam President Unharmed
March 01 1962	American Airlines Flight 1 Crashes
March 02 1962	General Ne Win Siezes Power In Burma
March 02 1962	Wilt Chamberlain Sets N.B.A Single-game Record
March 04 1962	Plane Crash In Cameroon Kills 111
March 06 1962	Mid-Atlantic Ash Wednesday Storm 1962
March 13 1962	Lyman Lemnitzer Delivers A Proposal
March 16 1962	Aircraft Disappears In Pacific, 107 Dead
March 18 1962	Évian Accords Algerian War Of Independence,
March 19 1962	Bob Dylan Releases His First Album
March 19 1962	Algerian War Against French Ends
March 29 1962	Argentine Military Overthrows President Frondizi
April 02 1962	London Opens First Official Panda Crossing
April 06 1962	Bernstein Makes Controversial Remarks
April 16 1962	Walter Cronkite Lead News Anchor Of CBS Evening News
April 21 1962	Seattle World's Fair, First Since WWII, Opens
April 26 1962	NASA Spacecraft Crashes On The Moon
May 06 1962	Porres Canonized By Pope John XXIII
May 10 1962	Marvel Publishes First Incredible Hulk
May 19 1962	Birthday Salute To Kennedy At New York
May 22 1962	Bomb Explodes On Continental Airlines Flight 11
May 24 1962	Scott Carpenter's Triple Orbit Around The Earth
May 25 1962	The Old Bay Line Goes Out Of Business
May 27 1962	Centralia Mine Fire Ignites Town Landfill
May 31 1962	The West Indies Federation Dissolves
May 31 1962	Adolf Eichmann Is Hanged In Israel
June 01 1962	Pilkington Committee Finds British Public Anti-radio Broadcasting
June 02 1962	Chilean And Italian Soccer Players Fight
June 03 1962	Air France Accident On Paris Orly
June 11 1962	Trio First Prisoners To Escape Alcatraz
June 14 1962	European Space Research Organisation Is Established
July 01 1962	Independence Of Burundi
July 01 1962	Independence Of Rwanda
July 02 1962	Rogers, Arkansas: First Wal-Mart Opens
July 05 1962	Algeria Becomes Independent From France
July 06 1962	The Sedan Nuclear Test Takes Place
July 06 1962	Chat Show Airs On RTE
July 08 1962	Ne Win Dynamites University Crush Student Movement
July 09 1962	Starfish Prime Nuclear Test Conducted
July 09 1962	Ferus Gallery Features Andy Warhol's Campbell's Exhibit
July 10 1962	World's First Communications Satellite Launch
July 11 1962	First Transatlantic Satellite Television Transmission
July 11 1962	NASA Makes Announcement At Press Conference
July 12 1962	Rolling Stones First Concert Performed At Marquee Club
July 13 1962	Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Ends National Liberals
July 17 1962	'Small Boy' Test Shot At Nevada National Security Site
July 22 1962	Mariner 1 Destroyed After Erratic Flying
July 23 1962	The First Public Trans-Atlantic Program Featured Walter Cronkite
July 23 1962	Agreement On Laos Neutrality Is Signed
July 30 1962	Trans-Canada Highway, World's Largest Highway, Opens
August 05 1962	Mandela Jailed, Until 1990
August 06 1962	Jamaica Gains Independence From U.K
August 11 1962	Andrian Nikolayev Is First To Experience Microgravity
August 15 1962	Man Defects To North Korea
August 16 1962	French India Territory Treaty Ratified
August 17 1962	First Victim In Berlin Wall Crossing Attempt
August 20 1962	NS Savannah Embarks On Maiden Voyage
August 22 1962	Charles De Gaulle Assassination Attempt Fails
August 27 1962	Venus Bound Mariner 2 Is Launched
August 30 1962	Japan's NAMC YS-11 Aircraft Test Successful
August 31 1962	Trinidad And Tobago Becomes Independent
September 06 1962	Marsden Discovers Blackfriars Ship In London
September 08 1962	Independent Algeria Adopts A Constitution
September 08 1962	Last Run Of The Pines Express
September 15 1962	Poltava Heads To Cuba Causes Crisis
September 18 1962	Four Nations Admitted To U.N
September 20 1962	James Meridith, African American, Barred From University Temporarily
September 23 1962	Lincoln Center Opens In New York City
September 24 1962	Mississippi University Forced To Admit James Meredith
September 25 1962	Ferhat Abbas Becomes President Of Algeria
September 25 1962	North Yemen Civil War Begins
September 27 1962	The Yemen Arab Republic Is Established
September 28 1962	Brisbane Depot Fire Destroys 65 Trams
September 29 1962	The First Canadian Satellite, Is Launched
September 30 1962	The National Farm Workers Association Founded
September 30 1962	James Meredith Defies Segregation
October 01 1962	First Broadcast Of The Tonight Show
October 03 1962	Project Mercury Launched In Cape Canaveral On Nine-hour Flight
October 05 1962	Dr. No: First Bond Film Released
October 05 1962	Beatles Release First Single In The U.K
October 08 1962	Algeria Joins The United Nations
October 08 1962	Spiegel Scandal Prompts Treason Accusation
October 09 1962	Uganda Becomes Independent
October 11 1962	First Ecumenical Council In 92 Years Convenes
October 12 1962	Columbus Day Storm- Record Wind Velocities
October 13 1962	Cyclone Hits Pacific With Deadly Force
October 14 1962	U.S. Pilot Flew Over Cuba And Found Nuclear Warheads
October 20 1962	China Ignites Sino-Indian War
October 22 1962	Kennedy Discovers Soviet Nukes In Cuba
October 25 1962	Uganda Joins The United Nations
October 25 1962	Stevenson Shows Cuban Missle Photos At U.N
October 25 1962	Mandela Sentenced For Five Years
October 27 1962	Air Force Major Dead As Spy Plane Shot Down
October 27 1962	Mystery Surrounds Enrico Mattei's Plane Crash
October 28 1962	Khrushchev Orders Missiles Removed From Cuba
November 04 1962	Last Atmospheric Cuclear Test By USA Above Johnston Atoll
November 06 1962	U.N. General Assembly Calls For South Africa Boycott
November 11 1962	Kuwait Ratifies The Constitution
November 17 1962	President Kennedy Dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport
November 20 1962	Kennedy And Soviet Union End Cuban Blockade
November 21 1962	Chinese Army Surrenders To India
November 24 1962	Socialist Unity Party Of West Berlin Formed
November 24 1962	The British Programme That Was Broadcasted First
December 02 1962	Mansfield Makes Disparaging Comments On Vietnam War
December 07 1962	Prince Rainier Gives Councils More Power
December 08 1962	NYC Newspaper Strike Lasts 114 Days
December 09 1962	Arizona: Petrified Forest National Park Established
December 11 1962	Arthur Lucas Is Executed In Canada
December 13 1962	Relay 1 Satellite Launched Into Orbit
December 14 1962	NASA Sends Spacecraft To Fly By Venus
December 21 1962	Norway Establishes First National Park, Rondane