Editing 1962 (section)

==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1962}}
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Samoa|Western Samoa]] becomes independent from [[New Zealand]].
* [[January 3]] &ndash; The office of [[Pope John XXIII]] announces the [[excommunication]] of [[Fidel Castro]] for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba.
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Harmelen train disaster]]: 93 die in the worst [[Netherlands|Dutch]] rail disaster.
* [[January 9]] &ndash; Cuba and the [[Soviet Union]] sign a trade pact.
* [[January 12]] &ndash; The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in [[West Irian]].
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albania]] allies itself with the [[People's Republic of China]].
* [[January 15]]
** Portugal abandons the [[United Nations General Assembly]] due to the debate over Angola.
** French designer [[Yves Saint Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint Laurent]] launches [[Yves Saint Laurent (fashion house)|his own fashion house]].<ref name=Gem>{{cite book|first=Nigel|last=Gross|display-authors=etal|title=Collins Gem 1960s|publisher=HarperCollins|location=London|year=1999|isbn=0-00-472310-4}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; A [[military coup]] occurs in the [[Dominican Republic]].
* [[January 19]] &ndash; A counter-coup occurs in the Dominican Republic; the old government returns, except for the new president [[Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly]].
* [[January 22]] &ndash; The [[Organization of American States]] suspends Cuba's membership; the suspension is lifted in [[2009]] (47 years later).
* [[January 24]] &ndash; The [[Organisation armée secrète]] (OAS, a right-wing paramilitary organisation opposed to Algerian independence) bombs the French Foreign Ministry.
* [[January 26]] &ndash; U.S. spacecraft ''[[Ranger 3]]'' is launched to study the Moon; it later misses the Moon by {{convert|22,000|mi|km|abbr=on}}.
* [[January 27]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] government changes all place names honoring [[Vyacheslav Molotov|Molotov]], [[Lazar Kaganovich|Kaganovich]] and [[Georgy Malenkov]].
* [[January 30]] &ndash; Two of the high-wire "[[Flying Wallendas]]" are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in [[Detroit]].

===February===
{{Main|February 1962}}
* [[February 3]] &ndash; A [[United States embargo against Cuba]] is announced.
* [[February 4]] &ndash; First successful winter ascent of the [[Matterhorn]]'s north face, by Hilti von Allmen and Paul Etter, is completed.<ref>{{cite book|first=Robin G.|last=Collomb|title=Pennine Alps Central|location=London|publisher=Alpine Club|year=1975|pages=241–59}}</ref>
* [[February 4]]–[[February 5|5]] &ndash; During a [[new moon]] and [[solar eclipse]], an extremely rare [[grand conjunction]] of the [[classical planets]] occurs (it includes all five of the [[naked-eye planet]]s plus the Sun and Moon), all of them within 16° of one another on the [[ecliptic]]. The total [[solar eclipse of February 5, 1962]] is visible in Asia, Australia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the 49th solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 130]].
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[President of France]] [[Charles de Gaulle]] calls for [[Algeria]] to be granted independence.
* [[February 7]]
** The [[United States embargo against Cuba]] comes into effect, prohibiting all U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports.
** [[Luisenthal Mine Disaster]]: A coal mine explosion in [[Saarland]], West Germany kills 299.
* [[February 10]] &ndash; Captured American spy pilot [[Francis Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy [[Rudolf Abel]], in Berlin.
* [[February 11]] &ndash; The inaugural [[24 Hours of Daytona]] sports car endurance race is run as a 3-hour event, at [[Daytona Beach, Florida]].
* [[February 12]] &ndash; Six members of the Committee of 100 of the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] in the U.K. are found guilty of a breach of the [[Official Secrets Act]].
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] takes television viewers on a tour of the [[White House]].
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Urho Kekkonen]] is re-elected president of Finland.
* [[February 17]] &ndash; Heavy storms and high tides result in the [[North Sea flood of 1962]] on Germany's [[North Sea]] coast, mainly around [[Hamburg]]; more than 300 people die and thousands lose their homes.
* [[February 18]] &ndash; [[1962 NHRA Winternationals]]: [[Carol Cox]] becomes the first woman allowed to race at a [[National Hot Rod Association]] national event in the United States; she wins in the Super Stock class.
* [[February 20]] &ndash; [[Project Mercury]]: Aboard ''[[Friendship 7]]'', [[John Glenn]] becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Margot Fonteyn]] and [[Rudolf Nureyev]] first dance together in a [[The Royal Ballet|Royal Ballet]] performance of ''[[Giselle]]'', in London.
[[File:JFK inspects Mercury capsule, 23 February 1962.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[February 23]] – ''[[Friendship 7]]'' inspected by [[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] and astronaut [[John Glenn]]]]

===March===
{{Main|March 1962}}
* March–May &ndash; [[Yi–Ta incident]]: At least 60,000 [[Chinese nationality law|Chinese citizens]] migrate from the People's Republic of [[China]] to the [[Soviet Union]], predominantly (but not exclusively) ethnic [[Kazakhs in China|Kazakhs]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Mao|first=Sheng|title=More Than a Famine: Mass Exodus of 1962 in Northwest Xinjiang|journal=China Review|year=2018|volume=18|issue=2|pages=155–184|jstor=26435651|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26435651|issn=1680-2012}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] &ndash; In the United States:
** [[American Airlines Flight 1 (1962)|American Airlines Flight 1]] (a [[Boeing 707]]) crashes on takeoff at [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|New York International Airport]], after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all 95 on board.
** [[Hulk]], created by [[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]], is introduced by [[Marvel Comics]] with the publication of ''[[The Incredible Hulk (comic book)|The Incredible Hulk #1]]'' as the first issue of the comic book, with cover date of May 1962.
** The S. S. Kresge Company opens its first [[Kmart (United States)|Kmart]] discount store in [[Garden City, Michigan]].
* [[March 2]] &ndash; A military coup in [[Burma]] brings General [[Ne Win]] to power.
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Ash Wednesday Storm]]: A snow storm batters the Mid-Atlantic.
* [[March 8]]–[[March 12|12]] &ndash; In [[Geneva]], France and the [[Algeria]]n [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|FLN]] begin negotiations.
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[State of Katanga|Katanga]]n Prime Minister [[Moise Tshombe]] begins negotiations to rejoin the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]].
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Flying Tiger Line Flight 739]], a [[Lockheed Constellation|Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation]] chartered by the United States [[Military Air Transport Service]], and carrying mainly [[United States Army]] personnel bound for [[South Vietnam]], vanishes over the western Pacific Ocean, with the loss of all 107 on board (no wreckage or bodies are ever found).
* [[March 18]]
** [[Évian Accords]]: France and Algeria sign an agreement in [[Évian-les-Bains]], ending the [[Algerian War]].
** "Un premier amour", sung by [[Isabelle Aubret]] (music by Claude-Henri Vic, lyrics by Roland Stephane Valade), wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1962]] (staged in Luxembourg) for France.
* [[March 19]] &ndash; An [[armistice]] begins in Algeria; however, the [[Organisation armée secrète|OAS]] continues its [[Terrorism|terrorist]] attacks against Algerians.
* [[March 23]] &ndash; The Scandinavian States of the [[Nordic Council]] sign the [[Helsinki]] Convention on Nordic Co-operation.
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Organisation armée secrète|OAS]] leader [[Edmond Jouhaud]] is arrested in [[Oran]].
* [[March 26]] &ndash; France shortens the term for [[Conscription|military service]] from 26 months to 18.

===April===
{{Main|April 1962}}
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] is elected de facto Prime Minister of India, for the fourth time.<ref>{{cite book|title=Election Archives and International Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9CEvAAAAYAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Shiv Lal|page=113}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] &ndash; Belgium reestablishes [[diplomatic relations]] with the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]].
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Milovan Đilas]], author and former vice-president of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] is re-arrested.
* [[April 8]] &ndash; In France, the [[Évian Accords]] are adopted in a referendum, with a majority of 90%.
* [[April 9]] &ndash; The [[34th Academy Awards]] Ceremony is held in the United States; ''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]'' wins [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
* [[April 13]] &ndash; [[Organisation armée secrète|OAS]] leader [[Edmond Jouhaud]] is sentenced to death in France.
* [[April 14]] &ndash; A Cuban [[military tribunal]] convicts 1,179 [[Bay of Pigs Invasion|Bay of Pigs]] attackers.
* [[April 18]] &ndash; The [[Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962|Commonwealth Immigrants Act]] in the United Kingdom removes free [[immigration]] from the citizens of member states of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], requiring proof of employment in the U.K. This comes into effect on 1 July.<ref>{{cite book|first=T. W. E.|last=Roche|title=The Key in the Lock: a history of immigration control in England from 1066 to the present day|location=London|publisher=John Murray|year=1969|isbn=978-0-7195-1907-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/keyinlockhi00roch/page/205 205–17]|url=https://archive.org/details/keyinlockhi00roch/page/205}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] &ndash; OAS leader [[Raoul Salan]] is arrested in [[Algiers]].
* [[April 21]] &ndash; The [[Century 21 Exposition]] [[World's Fair]] opens in [[Seattle]], United States. This is also the Opening Day of the Seattle Space Needle. 
* [[April 26]] &ndash; The U.S. ''[[Ranger 4]]'' spacecraft crashes into the far side of the [[Moon]] without returning any scientific data.

===May===
{{Main|May 1962}}
* [[May 1]]
** [[Norwich City F.C.]] wins the English [[Football League Cup]], beating [[Rochdale F.C.|Rochdale]] in the final.
** Dayton Hudson Corporation opens the first of its [[Target Corporation|Target]] discount stores, in [[Roseville, Minnesota]].
* [[May 2]]
** An OAS bomb explodes in [[Algeria]]; this and other attacks kill 110 and injure 147.
** [[S.L. Benfica]] beats [[Real Madrid CF|Real Madrid]] 5–3 at the [[Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)|Olympic Stadium]] in [[Amsterdam]] to win the [[1961–62 European Cup]] in association football.
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Mikawashima train crash]]: 160 die in a triple-train disaster near Tokyo.
* [[May 5]] &ndash; Twelve [[East Germany|East Germans]] escape to the West via a tunnel under the [[Berlin Wall]].
* [[May 6]] 
**[[Antonio Segni]] is elected [[President of the Italian Republic]].
**A test of a [[W47]] warhead fired from a [[UGM-27 Polaris|Polaris]] missile – the only time a nuclear missile has been test fired with its warhead detonated – occurs near [[Palmyra Atoll]] south of Hawaii. 
* [[May 14]]
** [[Juan Carlos of Spain]] marries the Greek [[Queen Sofía of Spain|Princess Sophia]] in Athens.
** [[Milovan Đilas]] is given a further sentence in Yugoslavia, for publishing ''[[Conversations with Stalin]]''.
* [[May 22]] &ndash; [[Continental Airlines Flight 11]] crashes near [[Unionville, Missouri]], after the in-flight detonation of a bomb near the rear lavatory in a suicide bombing committed as insurance fraud; all 45 passengers and crew aboard are killed.
* [[May 23]]
** Drilling for the new [[Montreal]] [[Rapid transit|Subway]] commences.
** [[Raoul Salan]], founder of the French terrorist [[Organisation armée secrète]], is sentenced to life imprisonment in France.
** [[Ruben Jaramillo]], Mexican peasant leader, and his wife and children, are gunned down by the Mexican army and federal police in Xochitepec, [[Morelos]], Mexico.
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Project Mercury]]: [[Scott Carpenter]] orbits the Earth 3 times, in the U.S. ''[[Aurora 7]]'' [[space capsule]].
* [[May 25]] &ndash; The new [[Coventry Cathedral]] is consecrated in England.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=978-0-14-102715-9|year=2006}}</ref> On 30 May, [[Benjamin Britten]]'s ''[[War Requiem]]'' is premiered here.
* [[May 29]] &ndash; Negotiations between the OAS and the FLA lead to a real armistice in [[Algeria]].
* [[May 30]] &ndash; The [[1962 FIFA World Cup]] begins in Chile.
* [[May 31]] &ndash; The British [[West Indies Federation]] is officially wound up (under terms of the U.K. West Indies Act of 18 April) due to internal dissention.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The West Indies Federation: Decline and Fall|first=Elisabeth|last=Wallace|journal=International Journal|volume=17|issue=3|date=Summer 1962|pages=269–288|publisher=Canadian International Council|jstor=40198636|doi=10.1177/002070206201700305|s2cid=147144900}}</ref>

===June===
{{Main|June 1962}}
* [[June]] &ndash; [[Rachel Carson]]'s ''[[Silent Spring]]'' begins serialization in ''[[The New Yorker]]''; it is released as a book on September 27 in the U.S., giving rise to the modern [[Environmentalism|environmentalist]] movement.
* [[June 3]] &ndash; [[Air France Flight 007]] (a [[Boeing 707]]) crashes on take-off at [[Orly Airport]] in [[Paris]]; 130 of 132 people on board are killed, 2 [[flight attendant]]s survive. Most victims are cultural and civic leaders of [[Atlanta]].
* [[June 5]] &ndash; [[Spider-Man]], created by [[Stan Lee]] and [[Steve Ditko]], is introduced by [[Marvel Comics]] with the publication of ''[[Amazing Fantasy|Amazing Fantasy #15]]'' with a cover date of August.
* [[June 11]] &ndash; U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives the [[commencement address]] at [[Yale University]].
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[June 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt|Alcatraz escape attempt]]: Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escape from the [[Alcatraz Island]] prison in the United States; it is never confirmed that they make it ashore.
* [[June 15]] &ndash; [[Students for a Democratic Society]] in the United States complete the [[Port Huron Statement]].
* [[June 17]]
**The [[Organisation armée secrète|OAS]] signs a truce with the [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|FLN]] in Algeria, but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf of French Algerians.
**[[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] beats [[Czechoslovakia national football team|Czechoslovakia]] 3–1, to win the [[1962 FIFA World Cup]].
* [[June 22]] &ndash; [[Air France Flight 117]] (a [[Boeing 707]] jet) crashes into terrain during bad weather in [[Guadeloupe]] in the West Indies, killing all 113 on board, the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks, and the third fatal 707 crash of the year.
* [[June 25]]
** ''[[Engel v. Vitale]]'': The [[United States Supreme Court]] rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.
** ''[[MANual Enterprises v. Day]]'': The United States Supreme Court rules that photographs of nude men are not obscene, decriminalizing nude male pornographic magazines.
** [[İsmet İnönü]] of the [[Republican People's Party|CHP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (27th government, coalition partners; YTP and [[Nation Party (Turkey, 1948)|CKMP]]).
* [[June 26]] &ndash; A 2-day steel [[Strike action|strike]] begins in Italy in support of increased wages and a five-day working week.
* [[June 30]] &ndash; The last soldiers of the [[French Foreign Legion]] leave Algeria.

===July===
{{Main|July 1962}}
* [[July 1]]
** [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] gain full independence from Belgium.
** [[1962 Algerian independence referendum]] in [[French Algeria]]: Supporters of Algerian independence win a 99% majority in a referendum.
** A heavy [[Smog#London|smog]] develops over London.
** The Helsinki Convention on Nordic Co-operation of March 23 comes into force in the Nordic countries.
* [[July 2]]
** [[Charles de Gaulle]] accepts Algerian independence; the French government recognizes it the next day.
** The first [[Walmart]] retail store, at this time known as ''Wal-Mart'', is opened for business by brothers [[Sam Walton|Sam]] and [[James "Bud" Walton]] in [[Rogers, Arkansas]].
* [[July 5]] &ndash; [[Algeria]] becomes independent from France.
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[Gay Byrne]] presents the first edition of ''[[The Late Late Show (Irish talk show)|The Late Late Show]]'' on [[RTÉ]] in the Republic of Ireland. Byrne goes on to present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual hosts a televised [[talk show]] anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show.
* [[July 9]] &ndash; American artist [[Andy Warhol]] premieres his ''[[Campbell's Soup Cans]]'' exhibit in Los Angeles.
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]]'s ''[[Telstar]]'', the world's first commercial [[communications satellite]], is launched into orbit and activated the next day.
* [[July 12]] &ndash; The [[Rolling Stones]] make their debut at London's [[Marquee Club]], opening for [[Long John Baldry]].
* [[July 13]] &ndash; In what the press dubs the "[[Night of the Long Knives (1962)|Night of the Long Knives]]", United Kingdom [[Prime Minister]] [[Harold Macmillan]] dismisses one-third of his [[Cabinet (government)|Cabinet]].
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Norma Nolan]] of [[Argentina]] is crowned [[Miss Universe 1962]].
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Nuclear testing]]: The "Small Boy" test shot [[Little Feller I]] becomes the last atmospheric test detonation, at the [[Nevada Test Site]].
* [[July 19]] &ndash; The first annual Swiss & Wielder [[Hoop rolling|Hoop and Stick]] Tournament is held.
* [[July 20]] &ndash; France and [[Tunisia]] reestablish [[diplomatic relations]].
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Mariner program]]: The U.S. ''[[Mariner 1]]'' spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
* [[July 23]] &ndash; ''[[Telstar]]'' relays the first live trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] television signal.
* [[July 25]]
** The first [[attack helicopter]] company, Utility Tactical Transport Helicopter Company, of the [[United States Army]] is formed on [[Okinawa Island]], [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Scutts|first=Colin|year=1976|title=Helicopter Gunships|page=2|publisher=Marshall Cavendish Ltd}}</ref>
** The [[International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos]] is signed in [[Geneva]].
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[Trans-Canada Highway]] officially opens throughout the {{convert|4645|mi|adj=on}} between [[St. John's, Newfoundland]], and [[Victoria, British Columbia]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/the-public/005-1142.19-e.html|title=Trans-Canada Highway|work=Unpublished Guides|publisher=Library and Archives of Canada|access-date=2011-07-29|archive-date=2014-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330001821/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/the-public/005-1142.19-e.html|url-status=live}}</ref> by completion of the [[Rogers Pass (British Columbia)|Rogers Pass]] section, making it at this time the world's longest uninterrupted highway.<ref>{{Cite web|last=MacLeod|first=Donaldson|year=2014|title=The Trans-Canada Highway: a Major Link in Canada's Transportation System|url=http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2014/s-32/macleod.pdf|access-date=2016-03-10|publisher=Transportation Association of Canada|archive-date=2016-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311012648/http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2014/s-32/macleod.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 31]]
** [[Algeria]] proclaims independence; [[Ahmed Ben Bella]] is the first President.
** A crowd assaults a rally of Sir [[Oswald Mosley]]'s right-wing [[Union Movement]] in London.
** [[Solar eclipse of July 31, 1962]]: An annular solar eclipse is visible in South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the Indian Ocean, and is the 36th solar eclipse of [[Solar Saros 135]].

===August===
{{Main|August 1962}}
* "Sherry" by the Four Seasons was released, their first number one hit!
* [[August 5]]
** [[Death of Marilyn Monroe]]: Actress [[Marilyn Monroe]] is found dead aged 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate at her home in [[Brentwood, Los Angeles]]; it is officially ruled a "probable suicide" (the exact cause has been disputed).
** Anti-apartheid activist [[Nelson Mandela]] is arrested by the South African government near [[Howick, KwaZulu-Natal|Howick]], and charged with incitement to rebellion. On November 7, he is sentenced to imprisonment.
* [[August 6]] &ndash; The Caribbean island of [[Jamaica]] becomes independent of the U.K.
* [[August 11]] &ndash; ''[[King Kong vs. Godzilla]]'' is released in Japan, becoming the first ''[[Godzilla (franchise)|Godzilla]]'' and ''[[King Kong (franchise)|King Kong]]'' film in colour. It also becomes the 3rd film in both franchises.
* [[August 13]] &ndash; First successful ascent of the [[Matterhorn]]'s west face, by Renato Daguin and Giovanni Ottin.<ref>{{HDS|8780|Matterhorn}}</ref>
* [[August 15]] &ndash; The [[New York Agreement]] is signed, transferring the Dutch [[Western New Guinea|West New Guinea]] colony to Indonesia.
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Algeria]] joins the [[Arab League]].
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[East Germany|East German]] border guards kill 18-year-old [[Peter Fechter]] as he attempts to cross the [[Berlin Wall]] into West Berlin, leading to mass protests on the Western side.
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Norway]] launches its 1st [[sounding rocket]], ''Ferdinand 1'', from [[Andøya Space Center]] and becomes a space nation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.romsenter.no/Laer-om-rommet/Norge-som-romnasjon|title=Norge som romnasjon|last=Romsenter|first=Norsk|website=Norsk Romsenter|language=no|access-date=2020-03-12}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] &ndash; An assassination attempt is made against French President [[Charles de Gaulle]] by machine-gunning his car in the Paris suburbs. The mastermind, [[Jean Bastien-Thiry]], will later be executed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gordon|first=David C.|title=The Passing of French Algeria|year=1966|location=London|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] 
** A group of armed [[Cuban exile]] terrorists fire at a hotel in [[Havana]] from a speedboat.
** Indonesia officially launches television with the establishment of [[TVRI]] television network or ''Televisi Republik Indonesia'' (Indonesian National Channel), broadcasting the opening of the [[1962 Asian Games]].
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[NASA]] launches the ''[[Mariner 2]]'' space probe.
* [[August 31]] &ndash; The Caribbean island nation of [[Trinidad and Tobago]] becomes fully independent of the U.K.

===September===
{{Main|September 1962}}
* [[September 1]]
** A [[referendum]] in Singapore supports the Malayan Federation.
** [[Typhoon Wanda (1962)|Typhoon Wanda]] strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and injuring more than 600.
* [[September 2]] &ndash; The [[Soviet Union]] agrees to send arms to Cuba.
* [[September 8]] &ndash; Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
* [[September 12]] &ndash; President [[John F. Kennedy]], in his "[[We choose to go to the Moon]]" speech at [[Rice University]], reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
* [[September 19]] &ndash; [[Atlantic College]] opens its doors for the first time in [[Wales]], marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atlanticcollege.org|title=UWC Atlantic College|access-date=2015-12-16}}</ref>
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Bob Dylan]] premieres his song "[[A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall]]", at [[Carnegie Hall]] in New York City.
* [[September 23]] &ndash; [[Flying Tiger Line Flight 923]], a [[Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation]] registered as N6923C, [[ditched]] into the [[Atlantic Ocean]] killing 28 occupants out the 76 onboard. The remaining 48 were rescued six hours later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crash of a Lockheed L-1049H-82 Super Constellation into the Atlantic Ocean: 28 killed {{!}} Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-lockheed-l-1049h-82-super-constellation-atlantic-ocean-28-killed |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=www.baaa-acro.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Accident Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation N6923C, Sunday 23 September 1962 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/333234 |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}</ref>
* [[September 25]] &ndash; [[Sonny Liston]] knocks out [[Floyd Patterson]] two minutes into the first round of his fight for the boxing world title in [[Chicago]].
* [[September 26]] &ndash; The [[North Yemen Civil War]] erupts.
* [[September 27]] &ndash; A [[flash flood]] in [[Barcelona]], Spain, kills more than 440 people.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The Canadian ''[[Alouette 1]]'', the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union, is launched from [[Vandenberg Air Force Base]] in [[California]].

===October===
{{Main|October 1962}}
* October 1 &ndash; In the United States:
** The first black student, [[James Meredith]], registers at the [[University of Mississippi]], escorted by Federal Marshals to protect him from official obstruction and violent segregationalist protest, the "[[Ole Miss riot of 1962]]".
** [[Johnny Carson]] takes over as permanent host of [[NBC]]'s ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' on television, a post he will hold for 30 years.
* [[October 3]] &ndash; [[Project Mercury]]: [[Mercury-Atlas 8]] &ndash; U.S. astronaut [[Walter Schirra]] orbits the [[Earth]] six times, in the ''Sigma 7'' [[space capsule]].
* [[October 5]]
** The [[French National Assembly]] censures the proposed referendum to sanction presidential elections by popular mandate; Prime Minister [[Georges Pompidou]] resigns, but [[Charles de Gaulle|President de Gaulle]] asks him to stay in office.
** [[The Beatles]]' first [[Single (music)|single]] in their own right, "[[Love Me Do]]"/"[[P.S. I Love You (Beatles song)|P.S. I Love You]]", is released in the U.K. on [[EMI]]'s [[Parlophone]] label.<ref>''[[New Musical Express]]'' September 21, 1962.</ref> This version was recorded on September 4, at [[Abbey Road Studios]] in [[London]], with [[Ringo Starr]] as drummer.
** ''[[Dr. No (film)|Dr. No]]'', the first [[James Bond in film|James Bond film]], premieres at the [[London Pavilion]], featuring [[Sean Connery]] as the hero.
* [[October 8]]
** [[Spiegel affair|''Spiegel'' affair]]: German magazine ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' publishes an article revealing NATO criticism of the ''[[Bundeswehr]]'' (West German defence forces)' poor preparedness; a political scandal erupts.
** [[Algeria]] is accepted into the [[United Nations]].
* [[October 9]] &ndash; Uganda becomes independent of the U.K. within the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Second Vatican Council]]: [[Pope John XXIII]] convenes the first [[ecumenical council]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in 92 years.
[[File:Cuban missiles.jpg|thumb|200px| [[October 14]] – Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by U.S. spy planes]]
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] begins when [[John F. Kennedy|U.S. President Kennedy]] is told of photographs (taken from [[Lockheed U-2|U-2]] flights) showing Soviet [[nuclear weapon]] installations being constructed on Cuba in the [[Caribbean]]. A stand-off ensues for 12 days between the United States and the [[Soviet Union]], threatening the world with [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear war]].
* [[October 20]] &ndash; The [[Sino-Indian War]], a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (India and the People's Republic of China), erupts into fighting.
* [[October 22]]
** Cuban Missile Crisis: In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba and the U.S. naval blockade of the island.
** [[John Vassall]], a former clerical officer in British naval intelligence, is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after admitting to passing secret material to the Soviet Union.<ref>{{ODNBweb|last=Martland|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Martland|title=Vassall [''later'' Phillips], (William) John Christopher (1924–1996)|year=2004|edition=online|id=64068}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] &ndash; Cuban Missile Crisis: The first confrontation occurs between the U.S. Navy and a Soviet cargo vessel; the vessel changes course.
* [[October 26]] &ndash; [[Spiegel affair|''Spiegel'' affair]]: German police occupy the offices of ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' in [[Hamburg]].
* [[October 27]] &ndash; Cuban Missile Crisis: [[Vasily Arkhipov]], executive officer of [[Soviet submarine B-59|Soviet submarine ''B-59'']], refuses to launch nuclear torpedoes against the U.S. Navy. This event is widely regarded as crucial in averting a worldwide nuclear war.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Story of the Soviet Submarine Officer Who Saved the World Is Now an Opera |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-story-of-the-soviet-submarine-officer-who-saved-the-world-is-now-an-opera/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Vice.com |date=2022-09-23|language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 28]]
** Cuban Missile Crisis ends: Soviet Union leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]] announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look as though the Soviets have backed down.{{dubious|date=April 2012}}
** A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage.
* [[October 31]] &ndash; The [[United Nations General Assembly]] asks the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), but it comes into effect on [[November 1]].

===November===
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* [[November]]
** [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]'s [[novella]] ''[[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]'' ({{langx|ru|Оди́н день Ива́на Дени́совича}}, ''Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha''), the author's pseudo-autobiographical account of life in the [[gulag]], is published in ''[[Novy Mir]]'', in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the [[Soviet Union]]'s [[Stalinist]] past.
** [[Slavery in Saudi Arabia]] is abolished.  
* [[November 1]]
** The Soviet Union begins dismantling its missiles in Cuba.
** The comic book antihero [[Diabolik]] first appears in Italy.
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Greville Wynne]], a British trader acting as a courier for [[MI6]], is arrested by the [[KGB]] in [[Budapest]] and imprisoned in Moscow after confessing to espionage.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Wynne confesses to charges of spying for West|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259749630/|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=1963-05-08|via=Newspapers.com|issue=36340|pages=1, 10|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; Earliest recorded use of the term "[[personal computer]]", in the report of a speech by computing pioneer [[John Mauchly]] in ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pocket Computer May Replace Shopping List|work=The New York Times|date=1962-11-03}}</ref>
* [[November 5]]
** West German defense minister [[Franz Josef Strauß]] is relieved of his duties over the [[Spiegel affair|''Spiegel'' affair]] due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.
** Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt following a period of unrest, partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt.
** A coal mining disaster in [[Ny-Ålesund]] kills 21 people; the Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident, in [[August]] [[1963]].
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Apartheid]]: The [[United Nations General Assembly]] passes a resolution condemning South Africa's [[Racism|racist]] [[apartheid]] policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Dulles International Airport]], in Washington, D.C., is dedicated by President [[John F. Kennedy]].
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]: In response to the [[Soviet Union]] agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the island.
* [[November 21]] &ndash; The [[Sino-Indian War]] ends with a Chinese ceasefire.
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[United Air Lines Flight 297]] crashes in [[Columbia, Maryland]] due to a [[bird strike]], killing all 17 on board.
* [[November 24]] &ndash; The first episode of ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]'', the groundbreaking satirical comedy program hosted by [[David Frost]], is broadcast on [[BBC Television]] in the United Kingdom.
* [[November 26]]
** [[Spiegel affair|''Spiegel'' affair]]: German police end their occupation of the offices of ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.
** [[Mies Bouwman]] starts presenting the first live TV-marathon fundraising show (''[[Open Het Dorp]]'' in the Netherlands), which lasts 23 hours non-stop.
* [[November 27]] &ndash; French President Charles De Gaulle orders [[Georges Pompidou]] to form a government.
* [[November 29]] &ndash; An agreement is signed between Britain and France, to develop the ''[[Concorde]]'' supersonic airliner.
* [[November 30]] &ndash; The [[United Nations General Assembly]] elects [[U Thant]] of [[Burma]], as the new [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]].

===December===
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* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]], U.S. Senate Majority Leader [[Mike Mansfield]] becomes the first American official to make a pessimistic public comment on the war's progress.
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco]] revises the [[principality]]'s [[Constitution of Monaco|constitution]], devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.
* [[December 8]]
** The first period of the [[Second Vatican Council]] closes.
** The North [[Kalimantan]] National Army revolts in [[Brunei]], in the first stirrings of the [[Indonesian Confrontation]].
** The [[1962–63 New York City newspaper strike]] begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers; it will last for 114 days.
** Queen [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]], who died on November 28, is buried at the [[Nieuwe Kerk (Delft)]].
* [[December 9]] &ndash; Tanganyika (modern-day [[Tanzania]]) becomes a republic within the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], with [[Julius Nyerere]] as president.
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[David Lean]]'s epic film ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'', featuring [[Peter O'Toole]], [[Omar Sharif]], [[Alec Guinness]], [[Jack Hawkins]] and [[Anthony Quinn]], premieres in London; 6 days later, it opens in the U.S.
* [[December 11]]
** In West Germany, a coalition government of Christian Democrats, Christian Socialists and Free Democrats is formed.
** The last execution by hanging is carried out in Canada.
* [[December 14]]
** U.S. spacecraft ''[[Mariner 2]]'' passes by [[Venus]], becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet.
** [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s early 16th-century painting the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100&nbsp;million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the [[Louvre]], its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.
* [[December 15]] &ndash; Storm over the [[North Sea]]: Belgian [[pirate radio]] station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.
* [[December 19]] &ndash; Britain acknowledges the right of Nyasaland (modern-day [[Malawi]]) to secede from the [[Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland|Central African Federation]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Cuba]] releases the last 1,113 participants in the [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]] to the U.S., in exchange for food worth $53&nbsp;million.
* [[December 30]]
** [[United Nations]] troops occupy the last rebel positions in [[State of Katanga|Katanga]]; [[Moise Tshombe]] moves to [[South Rhodesia]].
** An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the ''[[Bangor Daily News]]'' to miss a publication date for the only time in history. The same day, also, the Netherlands are covered with several feet of snow.

===Undated===
* Around 20,000 [[Harki]]s, indigenous Muslim Algerians who fought as auxiliary soldiers on the French side in the [[Algerian War]], with their families flee Algeria for metropolitan France fearing unofficial reprisals in their home country.<ref>{{cite book|last=Horne|first=Alistair|title=A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962|year=1978|isbn=9781590172186|page=358|publisher=New York Review of Books }}</ref>
* The [[laser diode]] is invented.
* [[Slavery in Yemen]] is abolished.

===Ongoing===
* [[1962–1965 rubella epidemic]], originating in Europe and spreading to the United States.