WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1962
Find out what all happened September to November 1962

Cuban missile crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation. (20. November 1962)

The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis. (15. September 1962)

Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison. (25. October 1962)

Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched. (29. September 1962)

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

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba. (14. October 1962)

Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba. (25. October 1962)

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

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

The Cuban missile crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba. (16. October 1962)

Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years. (11. October 1962)

Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star. (8. September 1962)

The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast. (24. November 1962)

Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. (3. October 1962)

Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. (27. October 1962)

In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States. (4. November 1962)

End of Cuban missile crisis: Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. (28. October 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)

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)

A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. (27. October 1962)