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1962 Calendar

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•  February 5, 1962 – French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
•  February 7, 1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
•  February 16, 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
•  March 2, 1962 – In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
•  May 24, 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
•  August 15, 1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea after running across the Korean DMZ. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
•  August 17, 1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.
•  September 30, 1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
•  October 8, 1962 – Algeria joins the United Nations.

•  February 4, 1962 – Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
•  March 3, 1962 – Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist
•  April 2, 1962 – Pierre Carles, French documentarist
•  April 3, 1962 – Jennifer Rubin, American actress
•  May 3, 1962 – Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
•  May 15, 1962 – Lisa Curry-Kenny, Australian Ironwoman
•  May 28, 1962 – Roland Gift, English singer (Fine Young Cannibals)
•  June 21, 1962 – Viktor Tsoi, Soviet guitarist, singer and songwriter (Kino) (d. 1990)
•  July 31, 1962 – Wesley Snipes, American actor
•  November 29, 1962 – Andrew McCarthy, American actor