WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1962
Find out what all happened January to October 1962

Algeria joins the United Nations. (8. October 1962)

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

The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II. (21. April 1962)

Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place. (12. January 1962)

Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. (11. August 1962)

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

A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". (19. May 1962)

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

As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place. (6. July 1962)

The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting. (1. June 1962)

Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel. (31. May 1962)

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

Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. (3. January 1962)

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

The West Indies Federation dissolves. (31. May 1962)

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

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

Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth. (11. July 1962)

James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation. (30. September 1962)