WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1962
Find out what all happened March to December 1962

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

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

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

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

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

St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII. (6. May 1962)

Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. (22. July 1962)

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

Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label. (19. March 1962)

An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails. (22. August 1962)

The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business. (25. 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)

Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war. (30. August 1962)

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

The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends. (3. July 1962)

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

Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent. (31. August 1962)