The temperature on January 27, 1962 was between 1.6 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
June 2 » During the FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
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