Date: May 18, 1962
Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days. Date: December 8, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 8 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962John F. Kennedy Dedicates Washington Dulles International…
Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. Date: August 11, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 11 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Cuban Missile Crisis Begins as Soviet…
The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II. Date: April 21, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 21 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962American Airlines Flight…
Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission and first American helicopter assault in the war, takes place. Date: January 12, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 12 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Last Atmospheric Nuclear Test at Nevada…
Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. Date: February 10, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 10 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Frances Oldham Kelsey Awarded for Thalidomide Refusal, August…
Cuban Missile Crisis: President 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. Date: October 22, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 22 📅 Events on this…