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dlobryan · ‎02-17-2005

January 5, 1962 : Civil defense officials decide to emphasize fallout shelters over evacuation in all future civil defense planning against nuclear attack.

March 2, 1962 : Philadelphia 76ers' seven-foot basketball center Wilt (the Stilt) Chamberlain scores a record 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks.

November 18, 1962 : The Seattle World's Fair closes after a highly successful six-month run. Seattle is left with the Space Needle and $30 million worth of new downtown buildings.

A fictionalized account of life in 1962 can be found in the classic 1973 movie, American Graffiti.

wmspringe · ‎02-17-2005

January

* January 1 - Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand
* January 3 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
* January 4 - New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board
* January 8 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time (National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC)
* January 9 - Trade pact between Cuba and the Soviet Union
* January 10 - Avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in Peru; 4000 deaths
* January 13 - Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China
* January 22 - The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership
* January 26 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles
* January 30 - Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan

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February-April

* February 2 - For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align
* February 3 - US announces its trade embargo with Cuba
* February 4 - The Sunday Times becomes the first paper to print a colour supplement
* February 5 - French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation
* February 7 - The United States Government bans all US-related Cuban imports and exports
* February 9 - Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation opened
* February 14 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House
* February 10 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel
* February 12 - Six members of the Committee of 100 of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are found guilty of a breach of the Official Secrets Act
* February 20 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the Earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes becoming the first American to orbit the Earth
* March 1 - An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport after its rudder separates from the tail, with loss of all life on board
* March 2 - Military coup in Burma
* March 8 - In Geneva, France and Algerian FLN begin negotiations
* March 18 - France and Algeria sign an agreement in Evian ending the Algerian War. See Evian Accords.
* March 19 - Armistice in Algeria - however, Organisation de l'armée secrète continues its terrorist attacks against Algerians
* March 23 - Scandinavian States of Nordic Council sign Helsinki Convention on Nordic Co-operation
* April 4 - James Hanratty is hanged in Bedford Gaol for A6 murder - many believe he was innocent
* April 8 - In France, the Évian Accords are adopted in a referendum with a majority of 90%.
* April 26 - The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon

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May-June

* May 2 - Bomb explodes in Algeria - 110 dead
* May 5 - 12 East Germans escape via a tunnel under the Berlin Wall
* May 14 - Juan Carlos marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens
* May 14 - Milovan Djilas, former vice-president of Yugoslavia, is given further sentence for publishing Conversations with Stalin
* May 23 - Drilling for new Montreal, Quebec subway commences
* May 23 - Founder of the French terrorist Organisation de l'armée secrète, Raoul Salan, is sentenced to life imprisonment in France
* May 24 - Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule
* May 25 - Consecration of the new Coventry cathedral
* May 31 - Adolf Eichmann hanged in Israel
* June 3 - An air crash at Orly Airport in Paris - 130 dead, two stewardesses survive
* June 15 - Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement
* June 17 – OAS signs a truce with FLN in Algeria
* June 25 - The Supreme Court rules in Engel v. Vitale that prayers in public schools are unconstitutional

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July-September

* July 1 - Independence of Rwanda and Burundi
* July 1 – Supporters of Algerian independence win in referendum
* July 1 - Another heavy smog over London
* July 5 - Algeria becomes independent from France.
* July 6 - Irish broadcaster, Gay Byrne, presents his first edition of The Late Late Show. Byrne would go on to present the show for 37 years making it the longest running chat show in the world
* July 10 - Telstar, the world's first active communications satellite, is launched into orbit
* July 17 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site
* July 22 - Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed
* July 23 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal
* July 28 - Locust swarm threatens Delhi
* July 31 - Algeria proclaims independence; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President
* August 5 - Film actress and sex icon, Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her Los Angeles, California home after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills
* August 6 - Jamaica becomes independent
* August 17 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin
* August 23 - John Lennon secretly marries Cynthia Powell
* August 27 - NASA launches the Mariner 2 space probe
* August 31 - Trinidad and Tobago become independent
* September 2 - Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba
* September 12 - President John F. Kennedy declares the USA will get a man on the moon by the end of the decade
* September 26 - Civil war erupts in Yemen
* September 29 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satlite is launched

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October

* October 1 - The first black student James Meredith registers in University of Mississippi escorted by Federal marshals
* October 5 - French National Assembly censures the proposed referendum to sanction presidential elections by popular mandate; prime minister Georges Pompidou resigns, but President de Gaulle asks him to stay in office
* October 8 - German Der Spiegel magazine publishes an article about Bundeswehr's bad preparedness - Spiegel scandal erupts
* October 9 - Uganda becomes independent within the Commonwealth
* October 10 - Der Spiegel publishes an article on a NATO exercise criticizing the weakness of the West German army (the offices of the paper are occupied by the police on the 16th)
* October 11 - Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years
* October 12 - Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph; 46 dead, 11 billion board feet of timber blown down, $230 million U.S. in damages
* October 13 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway.
* October 14 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. A stand-off then ensues the next day between the United States and the Soviet Union, putting the entire world under threat of a nuclear war
* October 26 - Spiegel scandal - German police occupies Der Spiegel offices in Hamburg
* October 28 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba
* October 28 - a referendum in France favours the election of the president by universal suffrage
* October 31 - the UN General Assembly requests the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), but the constitution comes into effect on November 1

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November

* November 1 – Soviets begins dismantling their missiles in Cuba
* November 5 - Franz Josef Strauß, the West German defence minister, is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel affair because it is alleged that he was involved in police action against the magazine
* November 5 - Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt following a period of unrest partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt
* November 5 - 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 - 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
* November 7 - Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more"
* November 17 - In Washington, DC, US President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport
* November 20 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
* November 26 - Spiegel scandal - German police ends its occupation of Der Spiegel offices
* November 29 - An agreement is signed between Britain and France to develop the Concorde supersonic airliner
* November 30 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General

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December

* December 2 - Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress
* December 8 - Closing of first period of Second Vatican Council
* December 8 - North Kalimantan National Army revolts in Brunei – first stirrings of Indonesian Confrontation
* December 9 - Tanganyika (now Tanzania) becomes a republic within the Commonwealth, with Julius Nyerere as president
* December 11 - Formation in West Germany of coalition government of Christian Democrats, Christian Socialists, and Free Democrats
* December 19 - Britain acknowledges the right of Nyasaland (now Malawi) to secede from the Central African Federation
o The last foreign occupied territories of India, Daman and Diu and Goa are freed from the Portuguese by the Indian Army
* December 22 - "Big Freeze" in Britain - no frost-free nights until March 5, 1963

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* Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring released, giving rise to the modern environmentalist movement
* Pantyhose becomes available for sale in U.S. department stores
* American ad man Martin K. Speckter invents the interrobang, a new English-language punctuation mark
* Sino-Indian War border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (between India and the People's Republic of China)
* University of Szeged assumed the name of the great Hungarian poet, Attila József, who was a student here in the 1920s.

kstearns2k · ‎02-17-2005

cuban missle crisis

rfrederickiu · ‎02-17-2005

LOL, you just copied Wikipedia.

prieto055 · ‎02-17-2005

THE BEATLES INVADED LOVE U DO

homedealsforyou · ‎02-17-2005

wow we are so lame ;( this is starting to get on my nerves. you know the answer is totally going to make us say "DUH, why didnt I think of that!???"

almondhayes · ‎02-17-2005

it isn't john glenn or friendship 7

therealn8rsk8r · ‎02-17-2005

not american graffiti either or jfk or george lucus

fedgov1980 · ‎02-17-2005

February 14, 1962 : First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gives "A Tour of the White House" via television. Over 46 million people tune in.

February 20, 1962 : John Glenn soars into orbit aboard the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, and becomes the first person to orbit the earth.
Back home, Walter Cronkite's enthusiastic reporting pushes him into the limelight, too.

August 5, 1962 : Actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead, an apparent suicide.

dlobryan · ‎02-17-2005

I will follow up with this. I wasn't born yet, my Dad was supposed to go to Germany but his orders got changed so he didnt have to go. There for i was born and now am here in my drunken stupor to wallow in my not winning of any money. I love you all

fotogurl21 · ‎02-17-2005

It the Tagline to Amrican Graffiti

official-collectibles · ‎02-17-2005

1962, Seattle's World Fair...wasnt there an Elvis movie called something like it happened at the world fair that was based at that in Seattle? Maybe Elvis items? Or Seattle?