1962 Calendar
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1962 Historical Event(s)
- February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 7, 1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
- March 1, 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
- May 24, 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
- August 31, 1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
- September 25, 1962 – The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
- October 5, 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
- October 27, 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- November 6, 1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
- November 17, 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.
Who Were Born On 1962?
- January 21, 1962 – Tyler Cowen, American economist
- February 14, 1962 – Philippe Sella, French rugby player
- March 4, 1962 – Stephan Reimertz, German art historian and novelist
- March 11, 1962 – Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
- April 26, 1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
- May 18, 1962 – Mike Whitmarsh, American volleyball player (d. 2009)
- September 24, 1962 – Mike Phelan, English footballer
- October 16, 1962 – Ken Chinn, American musician (SNFU)
- November 19, 1962 – Sean Parnell, 12th Governor of Alaska
- December 5, 1962 – Pablo Morales, American swimmer