The temperature on January 14, 1962 was between 2.3 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
July 9 » Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.
July 12 » The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
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