Date: February 8, 1962
Chinese police open fire on protesters in Yining, Xinjiang, killing at least five people and wounding a dozen others. Date: May 29, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 29 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Turkish Airlines Fokker F27 Crashes in…
Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, leading to accusations of treason. Date: October 8, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 8 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Seattle World’s Fair Opens, First U.S. Postwar World’s…
Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. Date: October 25, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 25 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Great Sheffield Gale Devastates UK, Kills…
The Soviet Kosmos 5 satellite is launched. Date: May 28, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 28 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Kuwait National Assembly Ratifies Constitution of Kuwait, November 11, 1962Évian Accords End Algerian War, French Government Settles May…
American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95. Date: March 1, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 1 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962NASA Announces C-5 “Advanced Saturn” Moon Rocket Plans, January 9, 1962British Space…
Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight. Date: October 3, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 3 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Vasily Arkhipov Averts Nuclear War by Refusing…