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1962 (MCMLXII common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). In Chinese Zodiac , the "year" of the Ox ended on February 4 , 1962 and the "year" of the Tiger began on February 5 , 1962.
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates
2 Births
2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December
3 Deaths
3.1 January-May 3.2 June-September 3.3 October-December
4 Nobel prizes 5 Fields Medalists
Events January February February 2 - For the first time in 403 years, Neptune and Pluto align.
February 3 - The U.S. announces its trade embargo against Cuba .
February 4 - The Sunday Times February 4 -February 5 - During the new moon and solar eclipse of February 4-5, 1962, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical planets occurred (it included all five of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and Moon), all of them within 16° of one another on the ecliptic . At the precise moment of the new moon/solar eclipse, five celestial bodies (the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter) were clustered within 3° of each other, with the Earth in close conjunction with them. Taken in totality though, this grand conjunction included the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, with the Earth also in alignment with the Sun and Moon at the exact moment of the new moon/solar eclipse (eight celestial bodies in total).
February 5 - French President Charles de Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.
February 6 - Negotiations between U.S. Steel and the U.S. Department of Commerce begin.
February 7 - The United States Government bans all U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports.
February 7 - A coal mine explosion in Saarland , West Germany kills 299.
February 9 - The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation opens.
February 10 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Berlin .
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 14 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House .
February 15 - Urho Kekkonen is re-elected president of Finland .
February 16 - Heavy storms flood Germany 's North Sea coast, mainly around Hamburg ; more than 300 people die, thousands lose their homes.
February 17 - Flooding occurs in the North Sea coasts.
February 20 - Project Mercury : While aboard Friendship 7 John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth , three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
February 23 - Twelve European countries form the European Space Agency .
March April May June June 3 - Air France charter flight Chateau de Sully , a Boeing 707 , over-runs the runway at Orly Airport in Paris; 130 of 132 passengers are killed, two flight attendants survive. Most victims are cultural and civic leaders of Atlanta, Georgia.
June 6 - President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point , New York.
June 11 - President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at Yale University .
June 11 - Frank Morris , John Anglin and Clarence Anglin become the only apparently successful escapees from the Alcatraz Island prison. There is no conclusive evidence that they survived the attempt.
June 15 - Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement .
June 17 - The OAS signs a truce with the FLN in Algeria , but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf of French Algerians .
June 17 - Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3-1 to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup .
June 22 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board. It is the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks.
June 25 - Engel v. Vitale United States Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.
June 26 - A two-day steel strike begins in Italy , in support of increased wages and five-day working week.
June 30 - The last soldiers of the French Foreign Legion leave Algeria .
July
