WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1962
Find out what all happened July to December 1962

Independence of Rwanda. (1. July 1962)

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

Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite. (23. July 1962)

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

Independence of Burundi. (1. July 1962)

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

The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage. (20. August 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)

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

Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism. (13. August 1962)

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba. (14. October 1962)

Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990. (5. August 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)

First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. (1. October 1962)

A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances. (27. October 1962)

The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona. (9. December 1962)

Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London. (6. September 1962)

The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. (24. November 1962)

The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died. (13. October 1962)