1962 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1962?
- January 3, 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
- January 8, 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
- January 10, 1962 – Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
- February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 7, 1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
- February 10, 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
- February 14, 1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
- May 6, 1962 – St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
- 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 9, 1962 – Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
- July 12, 1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
- July 23, 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- July 30, 1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
- August 5, 1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
- August 6, 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- September 8, 1962 – Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
- September 15, 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- September 24, 1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
- September 30, 1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- October 9, 1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
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