1962

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1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade.

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1962 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1962
MCMLXII
Ab urbe condita2715
Armenian calendar1411
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԱ
Assyrian calendar6712
Baháʼí calendar118–119
Balinese saka calendar1883–1884
Bengali calendar1368–1369
Berber calendar2912
British Regnal year10 Eliz. 2  11 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2506
Burmese calendar1324
Byzantine calendar7470–7471
Chinese calendar辛丑年 (Metal Ox)
4659 or 4452
     to 
壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4660 or 4453
Coptic calendar1678–1679
Discordian calendar3128
Ethiopian calendar1954–1955
Hebrew calendar5722–5723
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2018–2019
 - Shaka Samvat1883–1884
 - Kali Yuga5062–5063
Holocene calendar11962
Igbo calendar962–963
Iranian calendar1340–1341
Islamic calendar1381–1382
Japanese calendarShōwa 37
(昭和37年)
Javanese calendar1893–1894
Juche calendar51
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4295
Minguo calendarROC 51
民國51年
Nanakshahi calendar494
Thai solar calendar2505
Tibetan calendar阴金牛年
(female Iron-Ox)
2088 or 1707 or 935
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阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
2089 or 1708 or 936
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The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.

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February 23Friendship 7 inspected by President Kennedy and astronaut John Glenn

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October 14 – Pictures of Soviet missile silos in Cuba, taken by U.S. spy planes
  • October 16 Cuban Missile Crisis begins when U.S. President Kennedy is told of photographs (taken from U-2 flights) showing Soviet nuclear weapon installations being constructed on Cuba in the Caribbean. A stand-off ensues for 12 days between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with nuclear war.
  • October 20 The Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (India and the People's Republic of China), erupts into fighting.
  • October 22
    • Cuban Missile Crisis: In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba and the U.S. naval blockade of the island.
    • John Vassall, a former clerical officer in British naval intelligence, is sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after admitting to passing secret material to the Soviet Union.[18]
  • October 24 Cuban Missile Crisis: The first confrontation occurs between the U.S. Navy and a Soviet cargo vessel; the vessel changes course.
  • October 26 Spiegel affair: German police occupy the offices of Der Spiegel in Hamburg.
  • October 27 Cuban Missile Crisis: Vasily Arkhipov, executive officer of Soviet submarine B-59, refuses to launch nuclear torpedoes against the U.S. Navy. This event is widely regarded as crucial in averting a worldwide nuclear war.[19]
  • October 28
    • Cuban Missile Crisis ends: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look as though the Soviets have backed down.[dubious discuss]
    • A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage.
  • October 31 The United Nations General Assembly asks the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), but it comes into effect on November 1.

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Undated

  • Around 20,000 Harkis, indigenous Muslim Algerians who fought as auxiliary soldiers on the French side in the Algerian War, with their families flee Algeria for metropolitan France fearing unofficial reprisals in their home country.[22]
  • The laser diode is invented.
  • Slavery in Yemen is abolished.

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January

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Suzy Amis Cameron
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Jim Carrey
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Abdullah II of Jordan

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Jennifer Jason Leigh
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Axl Rose
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Garth Brooks
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Eddie Izzard
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Sheryl Crow
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Lou Diamond Phillips
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Steve Irwin
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Adam Baldwin

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Jon Bon Jovi
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Matthew Broderick
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Rosie O'Donnell
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Marcia Cross
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MC Hammer

April

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Clark Gregg
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Hillel Slovak
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Jeff Dunham

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Sean McNamara
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Emilio Estevez
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Craig Ferguson
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Genie Francis
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Bobcat Goldthwait

June

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Jeff Garlin
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Lance Reddick
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Arnold Vosloo
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Paula Abdul
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Viktor Tsoi
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Campino
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Michael Ball
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Bussunda
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Ollanta Humala
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Jordan Peterson
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Claudia Sheinbaum

July

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Andre Braugher
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Tom Cruise
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Thomas Gibson
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Hunter Tylo
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Tom Kenny
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Aya Kitō
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Carlos Alazraqui
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Federico Franco
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Sergey Kiriyenko
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Wesley Snipes

August

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Rob Minkoff
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Steve Carell
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Felipe Calderón
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James Marsters
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David Koechner
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David Fincher
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Dee Bradley Baker

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Keir Starmer
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Hesham Qandil
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Rob Morrow
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Nia Vardalos
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Melissa Sue Anderson

October

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Jeff Bennett
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Joan Cusack
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Branko Crvenkovski
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Flea
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Mike Judge
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Evander Holyfield
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Bob Odenkirk
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Cary Elwes

November

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Anthony Kiedis
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Demi Moore
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Harland Williams
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Jodie Foster
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Nicolás Maduro
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Jon Stewart
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Andrew McCarthy

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Felicity Huffman
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Ben Browder
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Ralph Fiennes

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Deaths

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Ernie Kovacs

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Roy Atwell
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Hu Shih

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Arthur Compton
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Auguste Piccard

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Benny Paret
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Louise Fazenda

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Pedro Pablo Ramírez

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Eugeniusz Baziak

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William Faulkner
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Denjirō Ōkōchi

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Marilyn Monroe
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Hermann Hesse

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Ahmad bin Yahya
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Ouyang Yuqian

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Henri Oreiller
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Gaston Bachelard

November

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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Niels Bohr

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Ahmad Nami
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Kazimierz Świtalski

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References

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