"Un premier amour", sung by
Isabelle Aubret (music by Claude-Henri Vic, lyrics by Roland Stephane Valade), wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1962 (staged in Luxembourg) for France.
A test of a
W47 warhead fired from a
Polaris missile, the only time a nuclear missile has been test fired with its warhead detonated, occurs near
Palmyra Atoll south of Hawaii.
Ruben Jaramillo, Mexican peasant leader, and his wife and children, are gunned down by the Mexican army and federal police in Xochitepec,
Morelos, Mexico.
June 22 –
Air France Flight 117 (a
Boeing 707 jet) crashes into terrain during bad weather in
Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board, the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks, and the third fatal 707 crash of the year.
July 6 –
Gay Byrne presents the first edition of The Late Late Show on
RTÉ in the Republic of Ireland. Byrne goes on to present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual hosts a televised
talk show anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show.
An
annular solar eclipse is visible in South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the Indian Ocean, and is the 36th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 135.
A group of armed
Cuban exile terrorists fire at a hotel in
Havana from a speedboat.
Indonesia officially launched television with the establishment of
TVRI television network or Televisi Republik Indonesia (Indonesian National Channel)
September 19 –
Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time in
Wales, marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.[5]
September 21 – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
October 27 – Cuban Missile Crisis:
Vasily Arkhipov, executive officer of
Soviet submarine B-59, refuses to launch nuclear torpedoes against the U.S. Navy. This event is widely regarded to be crucial in averting a worldwide nuclear war.[7]
The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader
Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look as though the Soviets have backed down.[dubious –
discuss]
A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage.
West German defense minister
Franz Josef Strauß is relieved of his duties over the
Spiegel scandal, due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.
Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt, following a period of unrest, partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt.
A coal mining disaster in
Ny-Ålesund kills 21 people; the Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident, in
August1963.
December 2 –
Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President
John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a pessimistic public comment on the war's progress.
U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 passes by
Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet.
Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting the Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the
Louvre, its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.
December 15 – Storm over the
North Sea: Belgian
pirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.
An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to miss a publication date for the only time in history. The same day, also, the Netherlands are covered with several feet of snow.
^LastName, FirstName (2019). Chase's calendar of events. the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 464.
ISBN9781641433167.
^"Fritz Kreisler Dies Here at 86". The New York Times. January 30, 1962. Retrieved July 3, 2013. Fritz Kreisler, the world-famous violinist and composer, died yesterday. He would have been 87 years old on Friday. ...
^Salmerón, Luis (July 3, 2018).
"¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?" [Who was Ruben Jaramillo?] (in Spanish). Relatos e Historias de Mexico. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
^Avenius, Sheldon H. Jr. (April 1967). "Charles Lyon Chandler: A Forgotten Man of Inter-American Cultural Relations". Journal of Inter-American Studies. 9 (2): 169–183.
doi:
10.2307/165091.
^Josef Charita; François de Lannoy (2001). Panzertruppen: Les Troupes Blindees Allemandes German Armored Troops 1935-1945. Heimdal. p. 21.
ISBN9782840481515.
"Un premier amour", sung by
Isabelle Aubret (music by Claude-Henri Vic, lyrics by Roland Stephane Valade), wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1962 (staged in Luxembourg) for France.
A test of a
W47 warhead fired from a
Polaris missile, the only time a nuclear missile has been test fired with its warhead detonated, occurs near
Palmyra Atoll south of Hawaii.
Ruben Jaramillo, Mexican peasant leader, and his wife and children, are gunned down by the Mexican army and federal police in Xochitepec,
Morelos, Mexico.
June 22 –
Air France Flight 117 (a
Boeing 707 jet) crashes into terrain during bad weather in
Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board, the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks, and the third fatal 707 crash of the year.
July 6 –
Gay Byrne presents the first edition of The Late Late Show on
RTÉ in the Republic of Ireland. Byrne goes on to present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual hosts a televised
talk show anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show.
An
annular solar eclipse is visible in South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the Indian Ocean, and is the 36th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros 135.
A group of armed
Cuban exile terrorists fire at a hotel in
Havana from a speedboat.
Indonesia officially launched television with the establishment of
TVRI television network or Televisi Republik Indonesia (Indonesian National Channel)
September 19 –
Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time in
Wales, marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.[5]
September 21 – A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
October 27 – Cuban Missile Crisis:
Vasily Arkhipov, executive officer of
Soviet submarine B-59, refuses to launch nuclear torpedoes against the U.S. Navy. This event is widely regarded to be crucial in averting a worldwide nuclear war.[7]
The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader
Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look as though the Soviets have backed down.[dubious –
discuss]
A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage.
West German defense minister
Franz Josef Strauß is relieved of his duties over the
Spiegel scandal, due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.
Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt, following a period of unrest, partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt.
A coal mining disaster in
Ny-Ålesund kills 21 people; the Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident, in
August1963.
December 2 –
Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President
John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a pessimistic public comment on the war's progress.
U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 passes by
Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet.
Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting the Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the
Louvre, its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.
December 15 – Storm over the
North Sea: Belgian
pirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.
An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to miss a publication date for the only time in history. The same day, also, the Netherlands are covered with several feet of snow.
^LastName, FirstName (2019). Chase's calendar of events. the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 464.
ISBN9781641433167.
^"Fritz Kreisler Dies Here at 86". The New York Times. January 30, 1962. Retrieved July 3, 2013. Fritz Kreisler, the world-famous violinist and composer, died yesterday. He would have been 87 years old on Friday. ...
^Salmerón, Luis (July 3, 2018).
"¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?" [Who was Ruben Jaramillo?] (in Spanish). Relatos e Historias de Mexico. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
^Avenius, Sheldon H. Jr. (April 1967). "Charles Lyon Chandler: A Forgotten Man of Inter-American Cultural Relations". Journal of Inter-American Studies. 9 (2): 169–183.
doi:
10.2307/165091.
^Josef Charita; François de Lannoy (2001). Panzertruppen: Les Troupes Blindees Allemandes German Armored Troops 1935-1945. Heimdal. p. 21.
ISBN9782840481515.