WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1962
Find out what all happened January to November 1962

The Yemen Arab Republic is established. (27. September 1962)

The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency. (14. June 1962)

The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership. (22. January 1962)

Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment. (11. January 1962)

The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports. (7. February 1962)

The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the United Kingdom. (5. October 1962)

Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel. (31. May 1962)

The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. (24. November 1962)

Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto. (6. April 1962)

James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation. (30. September 1962)

Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police. (8. February 1962)

The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died. (13. October 1962)

Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. (3. January 1962)

Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people. (16. February 1962)

Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km). (26. January 1962)

Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa. (1. January 1962)

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House. (14. February 1962)

The Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia. (28. September 1962)

Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. (22. October 1962)

The West Indies Federation dissolves. (31. May 1962)