1962 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1962?
- February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
- March 1, 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
- March 2, 1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
- March 16, 1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
- 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.
- May 6, 1962 – St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
- May 25, 1962 – The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
- May 31, 1962 – The West Indies Federation dissolves.
- July 10, 1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- July 17, 1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The “Small Boy” test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.
- July 23, 1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
- July 30, 1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
- August 6, 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- September 8, 1962 – Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- September 30, 1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- 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 22, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.
- November 6, 1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
- November 21, 1962 – The Chinese People’s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
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