The temperature on December 26, 1962 was between -10.9 °C and -3.1 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
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