WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1962
Find out what all happened January to April 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)

NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. (26. April 1962)

Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label. (19. March 1962)

Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America". (16. April 1962)

The first official Panda crossing is opened outside London Waterloo station. (2. April 1962)

Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11 and a half-day constitutional crisis. (29. March 1962)

A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead. (16. March 1962)

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

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

The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece. (15. January 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)

Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points. (2. March 1962)

Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place. (12. January 1962)

Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission. (10. January 1962)

French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. (5. February 1962)

Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position. (13. March 1962)

United States Navy SEALs established. (1. January 1962)

The Evian Accords ended the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954. (18. March 1962)

Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. (10. February 1962)