WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1962
Find out what all happened January to September 1962

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

In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics. (13. July 1962)

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government. (25. September 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)

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

Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution. (8. September 1962)

St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII. (6. May 1962)

American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York. (1. March 1962)

The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands. (8. January 1962)

Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers. (30. September 1962)

An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails. (22. August 1962)

Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London. (6. September 1962)

Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. (24. May 1962)

Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war. (30. August 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)

Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. (11. August 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)

An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113. (22. June 1962)

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