1962 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1962?
- January 1, 1962 – United States Navy SEALs established.
- January 26, 1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
- February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 10, 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- March 23, 1962 – Ship NS, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace initiative.
- April 16, 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become “the most trusted man in America”.
- April 26, 1962 – NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
- May 22, 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- July 10, 1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- July 23, 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- August 27, 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
- 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.
- September 15, 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- October 3, 1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
- 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 13, 1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
- October 16, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
- October 20, 1962 – China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, beginning the Sino-Indian War.
- October 27, 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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