Events in 1962

147 notable events from 1962. Page 1 of 2.

• Cuban Missile Crisis
  Oct 14, 1962–Oct 28, 1962 · Cuba
• Death of Marilyn Monroe
  Aug 5, 1962 · United States
• Operation Northwoods
  Mar 13, 1962 · Cuba
• Veerappan
  Jan 1, 1962–Jan 1, 2002 · —
• Albert DeSalvo
  Jun 14, 1962–Jan 1, 1964 · United States
• Centralia mine fire
  from May 27, 1962 · United States
• Boston Strangler
  Jun 14, 1962–Jan 4, 1964 · United States
• Starfish Prime
  Jul 9, 1962 · United States
• Novocherkassk massacre
  Jun 1962 · Russian Federation
• Mikawashima train crash
  May 3, 1962 · Japan
• American Airlines Flight 1 (1962)
  Mar 1, 1962 · United States
• Papua conflict
  from Oct 1, 1962 · Indonesia
• Sino-Indian border dispute
  from Oct 20, 1962 · China
• Évian Accords
  Mar 18, 1962 · France
• Petit-Clamart attack
  Aug 22, 1962 · France
• Patrick Kearney
  Jan 1, 1962–Apr 6, 1977 · United States
• Jürgen Bartsch
  Mar 31, 1962–May 6, 1966 · Germany
• Tanganyika laughter epidemic
  Jan 30, 1962–1963 · —
• Kusaka Jiro case
  Nov 4, 1962 · Japan
• Continental Airlines Flight 11
  May 22, 1962 · United States
• Oran massacre of 1962
  Jul 7, 1962 · Algeria
• Ole Miss riot of 1962
  Sep 1962 · United States
• 1962 Mexico City radiation accident
  1962 · Mexico
• Sedan (nuclear test)
  Jul 6, 1962 · United States
• North Sea flood of 1962
  Feb 16, 1962–Feb 17, 1962 · Germany
• Charonne subway massacre
  Feb 8, 1962 · France
• Children of Creuse
  1962–1984 · France
• Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
  Mar 16, 1962 · Micronesia
• Brunei revolt
  Dec 8, 1962–Dec 17, 1962 · Brunei Darussalam
• Hans-Georg Neumann
  Jan 13, 1962 · —
• Air France Flight 007
  Jun 3, 1962 · France
• Béryl incident
  May 1, 1962 · Algeria
• João Acácio Pereira da Costa
  Jan 1, 1962–Jan 1, 1967 · Brazil
• 1962 Burmese coup d'état
  Mar 2, 1962 · Myanmar
• Cross border attacks in Sabah
  Dec 8, 1962 · Malaysia
• Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
  from 1962 · Myanmar
• Hakusan Junior High School incident
  Sep 21, 1962 · Japan
• Anthony Strollo
  Apr 8, 1962 · United States
• Tetsuyuki Morikawa
  Jan 1, 1962–Jan 1, 1985 · Japan
• Harmelen train disaster
  Jan 8, 1962 · Netherlands
• 1962 Isly massacre
  Mar 26, 1962 · Algeria
• George Wright (fugitive)
  Nov 23, 1962 · —
• Independence Day (Algeria)
  Jul 5, 1962 · Algeria
• Benny Paret vs. Emile Griffith III
  Mar 24, 1962 · United States
• Tuareg rebellion (1962–1964)
  Jan 1, 1962–Jan 1, 1964 · Mali
• Alitalia Flight 771
  Jul 7, 1962 · India
• Air France Flight 117
  Jun 22, 1962 · Guadeloupe
• Battle of Bab El Oued
  Mar 23, 1962–Apr 6, 1962 · Algeria
• Communist insurgency in Sarawak
  Jun 22, 1962–Nov 3, 1990 · Malaysia
• Killing of Peter Fechter
  Aug 17, 1962 · Germany
• Aeroflot Flight 902
  Jun 30, 1962 · Russian Federation
• Eniwa case
  1962 · Japan
• Archie E. Mitchell
  May 30, 1962 · Vietnam
• 1962 Bundeswehr Starfighter formation crash
  Jun 19, 1962 · Germany
• Murder of Carol Ann Dougherty
  Oct 22, 1962 · United States
• Massacre of Harkis
  Mar 19, 1962 · Algeria
• 1962 French Évian Accords referendum
  Apr 8, 1962 · France
• Varig Flight 810
  Nov 27, 1962 · Peru
• 1962 LOT Vickers Viscount Warsaw crash
  Dec 19, 1962 · Poland
• 1962 Peruvian coup d'état
  Jul 18, 1962 · Peru
• 1962 Algerian crisis
  Sep 9, 1962 · Algeria
• Yi–Ta incident
  Mar 1962–May 1962 · China
• Luisenthal mine disaster
  Feb 7, 1962 · France
• Trebbin rail accident
  Mar 1, 1962 · Germany
• Bitter murder case
  Aug 24, 1962 · —
• 1962 Senegalese political crisis
  Dec 1962 · Senegal
• 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing
  Feb 27, 1962 · Vietnam
• Eleanor Ardel Vietti
  May 30, 1962 · Vietnam
• Northern Miyagi earthquake
  Apr 30, 1962 · Japan
• Voghera train crash
  May 31, 1962 · Italy
• 1962 Vallés floods
  Sep 25, 1962 · Spain
• Viktor Selikhov
  Jan 1, 1962–Jan 1, 1964 · —
• United Air Lines Flight 297
  Nov 23, 1962 · United States
• United Arab Airlines Flight 869 (1962)
  Jul 19, 1962 · Thailand
• 1962 Irpinia earthquake
  Aug 21, 1962 · Italy
• Palma Sola massacre
  Dec 28, 1962 · Dominican Republic
• Saïb Hachani
  Nov 16, 1962–Feb 13, 1963 · —
• 1962 Uetsu Main Line collision
  Nov 29, 1962 · Japan
• Caledonian Airways Flight 153
  Mar 4, 1962 · Cameroon
• 1962 Taurus Mountains Turkish Airlines F-27 crash
  Mar 8, 1962 · Türkiye
• Flying Tiger Line Flight 923
  Sep 23, 1962 · Iceland
• William Ebeneezer Jones Jr.
  Dec 17, 1962 · —
• Eastern Air Lines Flight 512
  Nov 30, 1962 · United States
• 1962 Szczecin military parade accident
  Oct 9, 1962 · Poland
• 1962 All Nippon Airways Viscount crash
  Nov 19, 1962 · Japan
• Malév Flight 355
  Nov 23, 1962 · France
• Sam Sary
  Jan 1, 1962 · —
• Escalante affair
  1962 · Cuba
• Academic Crisis
  1962 · Portugal
• Murder of Thomas Bates
  Jun 2, 1962 · United Kingdom
• Operation Sunrise (Vietnam War)
  Mar 22, 1962–Apr 30, 1962 · Vietnam
• Aeroflot Flight 03
  Sep 3, 1962 · Russian Federation
• Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 301
  Jul 22, 1962 · United States
• August 30 massacre
  Aug 30, 1962–Aug 31, 1962 · Cuba
• 1962 Ceylonese coup attempt
  Jan 27, 1962 · Sri Lanka
• Coppenhall Junction railway accident
  Dec 26, 1962 · United Kingdom
• 1962 Tunisian coup attempt
  Dec 18, 1962 · Tunisia
• 1962 Godthab Catalina crash
  May 12, 1962 · Greenland
• 1962 Air Nautic Boeing 307 crash
  Dec 29, 1962 · France
• 1962 Issy-les-Moulineaux bombing
  Mar 10, 1962 · France