The temperature on December 12, 1962 was between -1.5 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
February 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
March 2 » In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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.
October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
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