WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1962
Find out what all happened February to April 1962

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

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

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

Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots bombed the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem. (27. February 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)

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

NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative. (23. March 1962)

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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