1962 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1962?
- January 11, 1962 – An avalanche on Huascaran in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
- 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 20, 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
- April 2, 1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.
- April 6, 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms’ First Piano Concerto.
- June 11, 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
- July 2, 1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
- July 9, 1962 – Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
- July 23, 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
- September 29, 1962 – Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
- September 30, 1962 – James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
- October 1, 1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- October 9, 1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
- 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.
- November 21, 1962 – The Chinese People’s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
- December 9, 1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
- December 14, 1962 – NASA’s Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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