The temperature on October 17, 1962 was between 6.6 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
July 8 » Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
Day of death November 6, 1962
The temperature on November 6, 1962 was between 2.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
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