The temperature on January 22, 1962 was between 3.5 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
June 11 » Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 23 » The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
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).
Day of burial January 27, 1962
The temperature on January 27, 1962 was between 1.6 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 24 » Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
September 27 » Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
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