The temperature on June 2, 1962 was between 1.5 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
June 11 » Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
September 30 » Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
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.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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