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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

• January 1, 1962 – United States Navy SEALs established.
• January 3, 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• February 5, 1962 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• March 18, 1962 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
• April 26, 1962 – NASA’s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• July 1, 1962 – Independence of Burundi.
• 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.
• August 14, 1962 – Two gunmen hijacked a mail truck in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and made off with $1.5 million.
• September 18, 1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
• December 11, 1962 – Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.

Who Were Born On 1962?

• January 17, 1962 – Ari Up, German-English singer (d. 2010)
• January 19, 1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
• March 9, 1962 – Pete Wishart, Scottish singer and politician (Big Country and Runrig)
• March 18, 1962 – James McMurtry, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• April 10, 1962 – Viktor Zuikov, Estonian fencer
• July 30, 1962 – Alton Brown, American chef, author, and producer
• October 5, 1962 – Michael Andretti, American race car driver
• December 23, 1962 – Bertrand Gachot, Belgian race car driver
• December 28, 1962 – Michel Petrucciani, French-American pianist (d. 1999)