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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 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the ...
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1962 Middlesbrough East by-election: the Middlesbrough East seat is retained by Labour. 1962 Orpington by-election: Liberal Party candidate Eric Lubbock takes the Orpington seat in the outer London suburbs from the expected winner, Conservative candidate Peter Goldman, seen as the start of a Liberal revival in the UK.
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January 26 – The Ranger 3 space probe is launched to study the Moon, but later misses it by 22,000 miles.; February 4–5 – During a new moon and total solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical planets occurs, including all five of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and Moon, all within 16° of each another on the ecliptic.
February 26, 1962: John Glenn receives key to the city in Washington, D.C., as six-year-old Maria Shriver looks on. John Glenn Day in Washington, D.C., featured the reception of the astronaut at the White House, a parade, and his address to a joint session of the United States Congress. [3]