Date: September 23, 1962
The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1. Date: April 26, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 26 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962NASA Announces Advanced Saturn C-5 Moon Rocket Plans, January 9, 1962Chinese People’s Liberation Army…
The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast. Date: November 24, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 24 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962American Airlines Flight 1 Crashes in Jamaica Bay, 95 Killed,…
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Date: September 27, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 27 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962European Space Research Organisation Established…
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 1962Cuban Missile Crisis Begins: Kennedy Informed of…
The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books. Date: June 7, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 7 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962British Space Programme Launches First Satellite Ariel…
First transatlantic satellite television transmission. Date: July 11, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 11 📅 Events on this day in 1962 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1962Operation Fishbowl Ends, Final Above-Ground Nuclear Tests, November 4, 1962Pines Express Final Run on Somerset and Dorset Railway, September 8,…