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 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 14, 1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
- March 13, 1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
- May 22, 1962 – Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
- May 24, 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
- 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.
- June 11, 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
- June 22, 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.
- July 1, 1962 – Independence of Rwanda.
- July 3, 1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
- July 13, 1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
- 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.
- August 16, 1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
- September 24, 1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
- October 5, 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
- October 27, 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 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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