WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JUNE 1962
Find out what all happened April to June 1962

Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk. (10. May 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)

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

Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America". (16. April 1962)

Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto. (6. April 1962)

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

At Paris Orly Airport, an Air France Boeing 707 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130. (3. June 1962)

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

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

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

During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history. (2. June 1962)

The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency. (14. June 1962)

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

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

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

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

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

Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. (11. June 1962)

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