The temperature on July 23, 1962 was between 8.7 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
August 5 » Apartheid: Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
August 27 » The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
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