News and Events of 1962

World Events

• France transfers sovereignty to new republic of Algeria (July 3).
  
  
• Cuban Missile Crisis: USSR to build missile bases in Cuba; Kennedy orders Cuban blockade, lifts blockade after Russia backs down (Aug.-Nov.).
  
  
• Pope John XXIII opens Second Vatican Council (Oct. 11).
  
  
• Cuba releases 1,113 prisoners of 1961 invasion attempt (Dec. 24).
  
  
• Burundi, Jamaica, Western Samoa, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
  
  

U.S. Events

• James H. Meredith, escorted by federal marshals, registers at University of Mississippi (Oct. 1).
  
  
• Pat Brown defeats Richard Nixon in the California gubernatorial race.
  
  

Economics

Sports

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

World Cup

Entertainment

Events

• Marilyn Monroe dies of a drug overdose at age 36.
• The first transatlantic television transmission occurs via the Telstar Satellite, making worldwide television and cable networks a reality.
• Government regulations force studios out of the talent agency business.
• Johnny Carson takes over hosting duties of The Tonight Show.

Movies

• Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Divorce-Italian Style

Books

• James Baldwin, Another Country
• Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Ficciones
• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
• Robert Frost, In the Clearing
• Günter Grass, The Tin Drum
• Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo' Nest
• Sylvia Plath, The Colossus and Other Poems
• Anne Sexton, All My Pretty Ones
• William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark
• Richard Yates, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Science

Nobel Prizes in Science

Chemistry: Max F. Perutz and John C. Kendrew (UK), for mapping protein molecules with X-rays

Physics: Lev D. Landau (USSR), for his theories about condensed matter

Physiology or Medicine: James D. Watson (US), Maurice H. F. Wilkins, and Francis H. C. Crick (both UK), for determining structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

• Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., is first American to orbit Earth—three times in 4 hours 55 minutes (Feb. 20). Background: US Staffed Space Flights
• Mariner II, the first interplanetary probe, reaches Venus. Background: US Unstaffed Planetary and Lunar Programs
• Unimation introduces the first industrial robot.
• The commercially sponsored Telstar communications satellite is launched.

Deaths

• Niels Bohr
  
  
• William Faulkner
  
  
• Ernie Kovacs
  
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  

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