1962 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1962?
- January 1, 1962 – United States Navy SEALs established.
- February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 2, 1962 – In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
- March 18, 1962 – The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
- May 12, 1962 – Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
- May 31, 1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
- July 9, 1962 – The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States of America.
- July 23, 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- August 5, 1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
- August 30, 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
- August 31, 1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
- September 8, 1962 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- September 24, 1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
- October 5, 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
- October 8, 1962 – Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article “Bedingt abwehrbereit” (“Conditionally prepared for defense”) about a NATO manoeuver called “Fallex 62”, which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany’s army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason.
- October 14, 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
- October 27, 1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- October 28, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
- November 4, 1962 – In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
- November 11, 1962 – Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
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