The temperature on December 30, 1962 was between -5.2 °C and -2.8 °C and averaged -4.3 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 26 » NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
July 23 » Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
August 22 » The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
October 20 » China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line, igniting the Sino-Indian War.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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