1962 Calendar
A year scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

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Historical Event(s)

– French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
– Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
– Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
– Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
– Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
– Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
– The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
– Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
– The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.

Who Were Born On ?

– Paul Kilgus, American baseball player
– John Laroche, American orchid poacher
– Michael Salinger, American poet
– Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
– Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
– Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (d. 1982)
– Patrick Ewing, Jamacian-born American basketball player
– Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress
– John Korfas, Greek basketball player
– Henry Cho, Korean-American comedian