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1962 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
•  January 8, 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
•  February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  July 22, 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
•  August 6, 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
•  September 27, 1962 – The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
•  October 1, 1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
•  October 16, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
•  October 27, 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
•  November 20, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

•  January 22, 1962 – Eric Schaeffer, American actor and director
•  February 17, 1962 – David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (d. 1999)
•  March 28, 1962 – Jure Franko, Slovenian skier
•  May 31, 1962 – Sebastian Koch, German actor
•  July 18, 1962 – Shaun Micallef, Australian comedian
•  July 20, 1962 – Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
•  September 24, 1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
•  October 20, 1962 – Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter
•  November 28, 1962 – Matt Cameron, American drummer (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam)
•  December 17, 1962 – Paul Dobson, English footballer