WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1962
Find out what all happened January to August 1962

Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. (9. July 1962)

Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. (22. July 1962)

Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism. (13. August 1962)

Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. (10. February 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 Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business. (25. May 1962)

James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang. (15. August 1962)

Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (6. August 1962)

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

Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent. (31. August 1962)

Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. (10. July 1962)

In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état. (2. March 1962)

At Paris Orly Airport, an Air France Boeing 707 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130. (3. June 1962)

Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. (6. March 1962)

Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk. (10. May 1962)

Nuclear weapons testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site. (17. July 1962)

A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7. (4. March 1962)

The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States. (9. July 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)

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