80 events found for 1962
The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a…
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S.…
James Meredith becomes the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.
The first Beatles single "Love Me Do" is released in Britain.
Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, leading to accusations of treason.
Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S.…
The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six…
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic…
Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing…
China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American…
Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet…
Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile…
By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.