* 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

Warner paid an unprecedented $ 5. 5 million for the film rights to the Broadway musical My Fair Lady in February 1962.

Under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (, ), the United States Congress granted the White House unprecedented authority to negotiate tariff reductions of up to 50 %.

In February 1962, he purchased the film rights for the Broadway musical, My Fair Lady, paying an unprecedented $ 5. 5 million.

On January 3, 1962, Chandler opened a campaign headquarters in Frankfort, announcing his bid for an unprecedented third term as governor with the slogan " ABC Benjamin Chandler in ' 63 ".

Anslinger held office an unprecedented 32 years in his role as Commissioner until 1962.

Celebrezze was elected an unprecedented five two-year terms as mayor, from 1953 to 1962.

In 1962, Atlanta suffered an unprecedented loss when an airplane, the Chateau de Sully, carrying the leaders of Atlanta ’ s arts and civic community crashed at the end of runway 8 attempting takeoff at Orly Airport.

In 1962, two-time former governor and Democratic factional leader Happy Chandler had already begun his campaign for an unprecedented third term as governor.

The first action was to adopt a different translation of the Heidelberg Catechism from 1962, removing the words " homosexual perversions " among other changes.

The new counter-insurgency policy was instituted as Plan Lazo in 1962 and called for both military operations and civic action programs in violent areas.

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).

Lieutenant Commander Mustin, also a Naval Academy graduate ( 1962 ) earned a Bronze Star during the Vietnam War for river patrol combat action.

Speech acts can be analysed on three levels: A locutionary act, the performance of an utterance: the actual utterance and its ostensible meaning, comprising phonetic, phatic and rhetic acts corresponding to the verbal, syntactic and semantic aspects of any meaningful utterance ; an illocutionary act: the pragmatic ' illocutionary force ' of the utterance, thus its intended significance as a socially valid verbal action ( see below ); and in certain cases a further perlocutionary act: its actual effect, such as persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or otherwise getting someone to do or realize something, whether intended or not ( Austin 1962 ).

In 1962 Lewis gave a radio speech entitled Tynged yr iaith ( The Fate of the Language ) in which he predicted the extinction of the Welsh language unless action was taken.

In 1962 Saunders Lewis gave a radio talk entitled Tynged yr Iaith ( The fate of the language ) in which he predicted the extinction of the Welsh language unless action was taken.

At Stratford-upon-Avon in 1962, Peter Brook ( who would later film the play with the same Lear, Paul Scofield ) set the action simply, against a huge, empty white stage.

The main hope of the OAS was to prove that the FLN was secretly restarting military action after a ceasefire was agreed in the Evian agreements of 19 March 1962 and the referendum of June 1962 ; So, during these three months, the OAS unleashed a new terrorist campaign to force the FLN to abandon the ceasefire.

In 1954 Dassault established an electronics division ( by 1962 named Electronique Marcel Dassault ), the first action of which was to begin development of airborne radars, soon followed by seeker heads for air-to-air missiles, navigation and bombing aids.

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

Ewing and Lundstrom point out that the " most influential and oft-cited " account of O ' Hare's last mission came in a 1962 history of the Enterprise by CDR Edward P. Stafford, which relied on action reports and recollections of former Enterprise crew, but did not contain interviews with any of the living participants.

The 1962 version ( aka " bicycle of the future ") was the first production Moulton bicycle with suspension and the racing version was televised the same year in action by road race champion and Moulton employee John Ronald Tovey.

Image: Segerstrom_1962_USGSProPaper450C. jpg | Outcrop of granite that has been undercut by the abrasive action of windblown sand, Llano de Caldera, Atacama Province, Chile ( Segerstrom, 1962 )

The Everglades: River of Grass galvanized people to protect the Everglades and is compared to Rachel Carson's 1962 exposé of the harmful effects of DDT, Silent Spring, as both books are " groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take notice ".

All human cultures are therefore a collection of " choice making individuals whose every action involves conscious or unconscious selections among alternatives means to alternative ends " ( Burling, 1962, quoted from Prattis, 1982: 207 ), whereby the ends are culturally defined goals.

* 1962: George Bliss, Chicago Tribune, " for his initiative in uncovering scandals in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, with resultant remedial action.

U. S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk did in April 1962, when he declared that urgent action was required before the “ enemy ’ s subversive politico-military teams find fertile spawning grounds for their fish eggs .”

In December 1962, at the annual meeting of the U. S. Inter-American Council, Senator Kenneth B. Keating ( R-N. Y .) praised President John F. Kennedy's prompt action in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

However, at independence, guarantees were given by both signatories of the March 1962 cease fire (" Accords d ' Evian " signed by France and the Algerian FLN ), that no one, Harkis or Pieds-Noirs ( Algerian-born Europeans with French nationality ) would suffer reprisals after independence for any action during the civil war.

The General Assembly districts of both houses are supposed to be reapportioned based on population as determined by the U. S. federal census on a decennial basis ; in practice this was not done between 1902 and 1962, a fact resulting in the United States Supreme Court decision in Baker v. Carr ( 369 US 186 ) required this action to be taken and subjected it to judicial review.

In his book The Savage Mind ( 1962, English translation 1966 ), French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss used bricolage to describe any spontaneous action, further extending this to include the characteristic patterns of mythological thought.