WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1962
Find out what all happened September to December 1962

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

Uganda joins the United Nations. (25. October 1962)

James Meredith, an African-American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi. (20. September 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)

Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuvre called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason. (8. October 1962)

Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile. (27. October 1962)

Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations. (18. September 1962)

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

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

The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War. (21. November 1962)

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government. (25. September 1962)

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

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

In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States. (4. November 1962)

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

Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages (12. October 1962)

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

NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. (13. December 1962)

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