February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
July 25 » Spanish-American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
Day of death December 6, 1962
The temperature on December 6, 1962 was between -10.3 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (78%). Source: KNMI
February 16 » Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
Day of burial December 10, 1962
The temperature on December 10, 1962 was between 4.0 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
July 23 » The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
October 16 » Cuban missile crisis begins: Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
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.
December 7 » Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
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