The temperature on June 14, 1962 was between 9.6 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
October 13 » The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane, with winds above 150mph. 46 people die.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
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