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December 8 – The 1962 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers; it lasts for 114 days. December 9 – Petrified Forest National Park is established. December 14 – U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 flies by Venus , becoming the first probe to successfully transmit data from another planet.
1962 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... An annular solar eclipse is visible in South America, the Atlantic Ocean, ...
February 20: John Glenn, aboard the Friendship 7 space capsule, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. February 12 – As Commander-in-chief, Kennedy commutes the military death sentence of seaman Jimmie Henderson to life imprisonment, marking the last time in the 20th century that an American president was faced with such a decision (As of 28 July 2008, the most recent such decision ...
1962 – John Glenn orbits the Earth in Friendship 7, becoming the first American to do so; 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis, the closest nuclear confrontation involving the U.S. and USSR; 1962 – Baker v. Carr, enabling federal courts to intervene in and to decide reapportionment cases; 1962 – Engel v.
The Kennedy Slide of 1962, also known as the Flash Crash of 1962, is the term given to the stock market decline from December 1961 to June 1962 during the Presidential term of John F. Kennedy. After the market experienced decades of growth since the Wall Street crash of 1929 , the stock market peaked during the end of 1961 and plummeted during ...
1962 in the United States by state or territory (54 C) 1962 events in the United States by month (12 C) 1962 disestablishments in the United States (33 C, 12 P)
Take a nostalgic look back at the products Walmart's first shoppers would have found at what has since become America's biggest retail chain. From sporting goods and lawn mowers to clothing and ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1945 to 1989 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1945 and 1989.Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.