Gunmen hijack a mail truck in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and make off with $1.5 million. The Plymouth Mail robbery, or what the press called “The Great…
Tag: 1962
2 June 1962
During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, the police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players. This was one of the…
16 March 1962
A Flying Tiger Line flight disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 passengers and crew missing.
16 February 1962
Flooding from the North Sea in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
15 September 1962
The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba to set in motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
10 February 1962
The captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
16 October 1962
The Cuban missile crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union starts after the US President John F. Kennedy sees photographs of the…