1962 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1962?
- January 3, 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 8, 1962 – Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
- February 10, 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- March 16, 1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing.
- March 18, 1962 – The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
- 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 12, 1962 – Douglas MacArthur delivers his Duty, Honor, Country valedictory speech at the United States Military Academy.
- May 19, 1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe’s rendition of “Happy Birthday”.
- May 31, 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
- June 2, 1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
- July 1, 1962 – Independence of Burundi.
- July 3, 1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
- July 6, 1962 – As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
- July 8, 1962 – Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement.
- August 5, 1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
- 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.
- October 27, 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 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 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.
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