WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1962
Find out what all happened November to December 1962

Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. (6. November 1962)

Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park. (21. December 1962)

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

NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. (13. December 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)

Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress. (2. December 1962)

President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region. (17. November 1962)

Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. (11. November 1962)

The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War. (21. November 1962)

The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona. (9. December 1962)

NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. (14. December 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 West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. (24. November 1962)

Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days. (8. December 1962)

Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada. (11. December 1962)

Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils. (7. December 1962)