The temperature on January 28, 1962 was between -1.9 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400km).
August 11 » Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
August 31 » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
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