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1962 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1962 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1962

• February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• March 29, 1962 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina’s armed forces, ending an 11½ day constitutional crisis.
• May 6, 1962 – St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII.
• July 11, 1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
• July 22, 1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
• July 23, 1962 – The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed.
• August 30, 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
• September 6, 1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the 2nd century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
• September 30, 1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
• October 28, 1962 – End of Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

Who Were Born On 1962?

• January 11, 1962 – Susan Lindauer, American journalist and activist
• January 16, 1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian electrician and politician, 51st Australian Minister of Defence
• February 4, 1962 – Stephen Hammond, English banker and politician
• March 5, 1962 – Craig Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Proclaimers)
• April 7, 1962 – Jon Cruddas, English lawyer and politician
• April 27, 1962 – Ángel Comizzo, Argentinian footballer and manager
• July 11, 1962 – Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• August 1, 1962 – Cesar Montano, Filipino actor and director
• August 7, 1962 – Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer (Northern Lights)
• November 11, 1962 – Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (d. 1997)