During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games…
Tag: 1962
12 September 1962
President Kennedy delivers his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon’]
19 March 1962
The Algerian War of Independence ends. The Secret Army Organization was founded in 1961 as a response to General De Gaulle’s speech on Algeria’s right…
20 November 1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis ends. President Kennedy called on Premier Khrushchev tonight to carry out his promised missile pullback “at once” so that the U.S….
5 October 1962
The first James Bond movie, Dr. No, is released. Dr. No is a 1962 British spy film, starring Sean Connery, with Ursula Andress and Joseph…
21 April 1962
The Seattle World’s Fair opens. The Century 21 Exposition – also known as the Seattle World’s Fair – was held between April 21 and October…
19 March 1962
The Algerian War of Independence ends. Algerian War, also called Algerian War of Independence, war for Algerian independence from France. The movement for independence began…
8 January 1962
A train crash in Harmelen, Netherlands killed 93 people. The Harmelen train disaster was the worst railway accident in the history of the Netherlands on…
28 October 1962
The Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban missile crisis. As the Cuban missile crisis unfolded…