WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1962
Find out what all happened February to September 1962

Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement. (8. July 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)

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

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)

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

United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith. (24. September 1962)

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

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

The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States. (9. July 1962)

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

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

The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. (27. May 1962)

The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed. (23. July 1962)

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

The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA. (27. August 1962)

Independence of Rwanda. (1. July 1962)

Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. (10. July 1962)

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

East German border guards kill Peter Fechter, 18, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall. (17. August 1962)