* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Iris Häussler, German artist

* 1901 – Lowell Stockman, American politician ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Art Alexakis, American singer, composer, and guitarist ( Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes )

* 1962 – Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

* 1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director

* 1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor

* 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player

* 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player

* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Ellen Osiier, Danish fencer ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Thanos Kalliris, Greek singer-songwriter ( Bang )

* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of material containing chemical herbicides and defoliants mixed with jet fuel in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand.

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of the aerial defoliation program known as Operation Ranch Hand.

During 1960 and the 1962 to 1964 period, Day ranked # 1 at the box office.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the families of military personnel were evacuated from the base.

During the 1962 and 1963 seasons, the Mets played their home games at the Polo Grounds.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries anthropologists used a typological model to divide people from different ethnic regions into races, ( e. g. the Negroid race, the Caucasoid race, the Mongoloid race, the Australoid race, and the Capoid race which was the racial classification system as defined in 1962 by Carleton S. Coon ).

During the 1947 – 1962 period, many people were arbitrarily killed or imprisoned for political, economic or unknown reasons: detainees in prisons or camps, deported persons, persons under house arrest, and administrative detainees.

During the early years of the Cold-war, the United States of America and the then Soviet USSR were engaged in talks to exchange two captured military personnel, a " trade " carried out during 1962 ( Polmar p. 142 ).

During nuclear tests in 1962, EMP disruptions were suffered aboard KC-135 photographic aircraft flying from the Bluegill Triple Prime and Kingfish detonations ( burst altitude, respectively ) but the vital aircraft electronics were far less sophisticated than today and the aircraft were able to land safely.

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union truly developed an understanding of the effectiveness of U. S. ballistic missile submarine forces, and work on Soviet ballistic missile submarines began in earnest.

During the new moon and solar eclipse of February 4 — 5, 1962, an extremely rare great conjunction of the classical planets occurred ( it included all five of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and the Moon ), all of them within 16 degrees of one another on the ecliptic.

During the Vietnam war, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand.

During a televised presentation about the Cuban Missile Crisis on 22 October 1962, John F. Kennedy made reference to " offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, LeMay clashed again with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and Defense Secretary McNamara, arguing that he should be allowed to bomb nuclear missile sites in Cuba.

During the 1962 election, Capehart was narrowly defeated by 34 year-old Birch Bayh and subsequently, he retired to his farming and business interests in Indiana, occasionally returning to Washington to provide both foreign policy and domestic-issue advice.

During his career, he pitched for the New York Giants ( 1952 – 1956 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1957 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1957 – 1958 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1958 – 1962 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1963 – 1968 ), California Angels ( 1969 ), Atlanta Braves ( 1969 – 1970 ; 1971 ), Chicago Cubs ( 1970 ), and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1971 – 1972 ).

During 1962 he acted as U. S. mediator in the New York Agreement over Western New Guinea.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McNamara served as a member of EXCOMM and played a large role in the Administration's handling and eventual defusing of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

During the following decades, the club bounced back between the first ( 38 seasons ) and second levels ( 32 ), the high point being qualifying for the UEFA Cup after finishing a best-ever third in 1962 – 63 ( ranking joint-first with Real Madrid after the first 15 rounds ), while the lowest was the side's first relegation to Segunda División B, in 1978 ( for a single season ).

During a storm in 1962, the bridge built in 1929 was swept away in a storm and rebuilt.

During the period from 1962 until 1967, Cambridge was a center of Civil Rights Movement protests as blacks sought access to work and housing.

During the Mao era, food in prisons was very scarce, partly because of a nationwide famine ( 1959 – 1962 ) but also because of the harsher rules.

During the 1960s Saunders-Roe developed several larger designs which could carry passengers, including the SR. N2, which operated across the Solent in 1962 and later the SR. N6, which operated across the Solent from Southsea to Ryde on the Isle of Wight for many years.