1962 Calendar

January 1, 1962 – United States Navy SEALs established.

February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.

February 14, 1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.

July 11, 1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

September 20, 1962 – James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

September 24, 1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.

October 22, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.

November 4, 1962 – In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.

December 11, 1962 – Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.

December 21, 1962 – Rondane National Park is established as Norway’s first national park.

March 5, 1962 – Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant

March 27, 1962 – Jann Arden, Canadian musician

April 6, 1962 – Iris Häussler, German installation artist

May 3, 1962 – Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder

June 12, 1962 – John Enos III, American actor

July 11, 1962 – Gaetan Duchesne, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)

July 19, 1962 – Aya Kitō, Japanese writer (d. 1988)

August 17, 1962 – Gilby Clarke, American musician (Guns N' Roses)

September 1, 1962 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer

October 11, 1962 – Joan Cusack, American actress and comedian