WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 1962
Find out what all happened March to May 1962

NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative. (23. March 1962)

Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points. (2. March 1962)

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

A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7. (4. March 1962)

Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label. (19. 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 Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. (27. May 1962)

The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business. (25. May 1962)

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

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

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

Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. (24. May 1962)

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

A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead. (16. March 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)

American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York. (1. March 1962)

NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. (26. April 1962)

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

Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board. (22. May 1962)