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1962 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade.
December 8 – The 1962 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers; it lasts for 114 days. December 9 – Petrified Forest National Park is established. December 14 – U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 flies by Venus, becoming the first probe to successfully transmit data from another planet.
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The following events occurred in June 1962: ... which threatened to become a major war, ... Brazil beat Czechoslovakia 3–1 to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final, ...
Mars 1, also known as Sputnik 24, was launched by the Soviet Union as part of its Mars program, with an expected arrival date of June. [1] The probe would come within 120,000 miles (190,000 km) of Mars on June 19, 1963, but the system that adjusted the probe's antenna to maintain contact with Earth would fail on March 21, 1963.
1962 Middlesbrough East by-election: the Middlesbrough East seat is retained by Labour. 1962 Orpington by-election: Liberal Party candidate Eric Lubbock takes the Orpington seat in the outer London suburbs from the expected winner, Conservative candidate Peter Goldman, seen as the start of a Liberal revival in the UK.
January 26 – The Ranger 3 space probe is launched to study the Moon, but later misses it by 22,000 miles.; February 4–5 – During a new moon and total solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical planets occurs, including all five of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and Moon, all within 16° of each another on the ecliptic.
The 1962 FIFA World Cup began in Chile with 16 nations qualifying for the competition to reach the final, with four groups of four teams each. On the first day, with games all starting at 3:00 in the afternoon, Uruguay beat Colombia 2—1 (Group 1) at Arica ; Chile beat Switzerland 3—1 (Group 2) at Santiago ; Brazil beat Mexico 2—0 (Group 3 ...