1962

• South Korea's first 5-Year Plan for economic reform begins
• Cuban missile crisis
• Second Vatican Council opens
• Algeria, Burundi, Jamaica, Western Samoa, Uganda, and Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
• 1st live TV broadcast from Europe to US via satellite
• World population more than 3 billion
• Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr. - first American to orbit Earth
• James H. Meredith, escorted by federal marshals, registers at University of Mississippi
• Amnesty International created

  Audiocassettes

• Decca records rejects a recording deal with The Beatles
• Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA game
• Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• Seattle World's Fair
• Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
• Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange
• Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Audiocassettes
• Laser eye surgery
• Film - "Lawrence of Arabia", "Cleopatra"
• TV - "The Beverly Hillbillies"
• Jodie Foster, Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Andretti, Al Unser, Jr. born
• Ernie Kovacs, William Kaulkner, Marilyn Monroe, e.e. cummings, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Charles Laughton die

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