The temperature on January 23, 1962 was between 3.9 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 19 » Highly influential artist Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
May 24 » Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
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.
July 22 » Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Day of death January 24, 1962
The temperature on January 24, 1962 was between 3.6 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 14.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
July 23 » Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
September 25 » The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
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