The temperature on June 18, 1962 was between 9.9 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
July 22 » Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
September 6 » Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
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