January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
Day of death November 12, 1962
The temperature on November 12, 1962 was between 1.7 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
June 7 » The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
July 12 » The Rolling Stones perform for the first time at London's Marquee Club.
August 16 » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
September 23 » The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
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