1962

1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade.

1962
Clockwise from top-left: the 1962 FIFA World Cup is held in Chile and won by Brazil; Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, just 4 months before her death; John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth in Mercury-Atlas 6 mission; a border dispute between India and China is fought; Algeria and other African countries gain independence from France; Mariner 2 was the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft; Tropical Storm Harriet kills 50,935 people in Thailand and East Pakistan; the Cuban Missile Crisis, an international crisis that is considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale conflict, nuclear war.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1962 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1962
MCMLXII
Ab urbe condita2715
Armenian calendar1411
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԱ
Assyrian calendar6712
Baháʼí calendar118–119
Balinese saka calendar1883–1884
Bengali calendar1369
Berber calendar2912
British Regnal year10 Eliz. 2 – 11 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2506
Burmese calendar1324
Byzantine calendar7470–7471
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4659 or 4452
    — to —
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4660 or 4453
Coptic calendar1678–1679
Discordian calendar3128
Ethiopian calendar1954–1955
Hebrew calendar5722–5723
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2018–2019
 - Shaka Samvat1883–1884
 - Kali Yuga5062–5063
Holocene calendar11962
Igbo calendar962–963
Iranian calendar1340–1341
Islamic calendar1381–1382
Japanese calendarShōwa 37
(昭和37年)
Javanese calendar1893–1894
Juche calendar51
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4295
Minguo calendarROC 51
民國51年
Nanakshahi calendar494
Thai solar calendar2505
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
2088 or 1707 or 935
    — to —
阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
2089 or 1708 or 936

The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.

Events

January

February

1962 
February 23: Friendship 7 inspected by President Kennedy and Astronaut John Glenn

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

1962 
October 14: Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by US spy planes
  • October 16 – The beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A U-2 flight over Cuba in the Caribbean photographs Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. A stand-off then ensues for another 12 days, after President Kennedy is told of the pictures, between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with nuclear war.
  • October 20 – The Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (India and the People's Republic of China), begins.
  • October 22 – Cuban Missile Crisis: In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
  • October 24 – Cuban Missile Crisis: The first confrontation occurs between the U.S. Navy and a Soviet cargo vessel; the vessel changes course.
  • October 26Spiegel scandal: German police occupy the offices of Der Spiegel in Hamburg.
  • 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.
  • October 28
    • 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 ]
    • A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage.
  • October 31 – The United Nations General Assembly asks the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), but it comes into effect on November 1.

November

December

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

1962 
Suzy Amis Cameron
1962 
Jim Carrey
1962 
Abdullah II of Jordan

February

1962 
Jennifer Jason Leigh
1962 
Axl Rose
1962 
Garth Brooks
1962 
Eddie Izzard
1962 
Sheryl Crow
1962 
Lou Diamond Phillips
1962 
Steve Irwin
1962 
Adam Baldwin

March

1962 
Jon Bon Jovi
1962 
Matthew Broderick
1962 
Rosie O'Donnell
1962 
Marcia Cross
1962 
MC Hammer

April

1962 
Clark Gregg
1962 
Hillel Slovak
1962 
Jeff Dunham

May

1962 
Sean McNamara
1962 
Emilio Estevez
1962 
Craig Ferguson
1962 
Genie Francis
1962 
Bobcat Goldthwait

June

1962 
Lance Reddick
1962 
Arnold Vosloo
1962 
Paula Abdul
1962 
Viktor Tsoi
1962 
Campino
1962 
Michael Ball
1962 
Bussunda
1962 
Ollanta Humala
1962 
Jordan Peterson

July

1962 
Andre Braugher
1962 
Tom Cruise
1962 
Thomas Gibson
1962 
Hunter Tylo
1962 
Tom Kenny
1962 
Aya Kitō
1962 
Carlos Alazraqui
1962 
Federico Franco
1962 
Sergey Kiriyenko
1962 
Wesley Snipes

August

1962 
Rob Minkoff
1962 
Steve Carell
1962 
Felipe Calderón
1962 
James Marsters
1962 
David Koechner
1962 
David Fincher
1962 
Dee Bradley Baker

September

1962 
Hesham Qandil
1962 
Rob Morrow
1962 
Nia Vardalos
1962 
Melissa Sue Anderson

October

1962 
Jeff Bennett
1962 
Joan Cusack
1962 
Branko Crvenkovski
1962 
Flea
1962 
Mike Judge
1962 
Evander Holyfield
1962 
Bob Odenkirk
1962 
Cary Elwes

November

1962 
Demi Moore
1962 
Harland Williams
1962 
Jodie Foster
1962 
Nicolás Maduro
1962 
Jon Stewart
1962 
Andrew McCarthy

December

1962 
Felicity Huffman
1962 
Ben Browder
1962 
Ralph Fiennes

Unknown date

Deaths

January

1962 
Ernie Kovacs

February

1962 
Roy Atwell
1962 
Hu Shih

March

1962 
Arthur Compton
1962 
Auguste Piccard

April

1962 
Benny Paret
1962 
Louise Fazenda

May

1962 
Pedro Pablo Ramírez

June

1962 
Eugeniusz Baziak

July

1962 
William Faulkner
1962 
Denjirō Ōkōchi

August

1962 
Marilyn Monroe
1962 
Hermann Hesse

September

1962 
Ahmad bin Yahya
1962 
Ouyang Yuqian

October

1962 
Henri Oreiller
1962 
Gaston Bachelard

November

1962 
Eleanor Roosevelt
1962 
Niels Bohr

December

1962 
Ahmad Nami
1962 
Kazimierz Świtalski

Date unknown

Nobel Prizes

1962 

References

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