The temperature on February 12, 1962 was between 4.2 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 5.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
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