58 events found for 1962
Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished…
Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in…
James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial…
The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the…
Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam…
US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student…
The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
Aeroflot Flight 213 crashes into a mountain near Chersky Airport, killing 32 people.
James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.