* 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

In July 1962, a 1. 44 megaton ( 6. 0 PJ ) United States nuclear test in space, above the mid-Pacific Ocean, called the Starfish Prime test, demonstrated to nuclear scientists that the magnitude and effects of a high altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated.

Starfish Prime was the first successful test in the series of United States high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 known as Operation Fishbowl.

The EMP damage of the Starfish Prime test was quickly repaired because of the ruggedness ( compared to today ) of the electrical and electronic infrastructure of Hawaii in 1962.

The 1. 4 Mt total yield 1962 Starfish Prime test had a gamma output of 0. 1 %, hence 1. 4 kt of prompt gamma rays.

Transit 4B was notable for sustaining damage in a nuclear explosion, specifically the United States Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test in 1962.

During the Hardtack Teak test in 1958 observers noted the damaging effects of the electromagnetic pulse ( EMP ) caused by the explosions on electronic equipment, and during the Starfish Prime test in 1962 the EMP from a 1. 4 Mt warhead detonated over the Pacific damaged three satellites and also disrupted power transmission and communications across the Pacific.

* 4 June 1962, failed Starfish flight, Thor destroyed, nuclear device lost.

One early test of electronic space warfare, the so-called Starfish Prime test, took place in 1962, when the United States exploded a ground-launched nuclear weapon in space to test the effects of an electromagnetic pulse.

Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States of America on July 9, 1962, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency ( which became the Defense Nuclear Agency in 1971 ).

The Starfish test was one of five high altitude tests grouped together as Operation Fishbowl within the larger Operation Dominic, a series of tests in 1962 begun in response to the Soviet announcement on August 30, 1961 that they would end a three-year moratorium on testing.

On July 9, 1962, at 09: 00: 09 Coordinated Universal Time, ( which was July 8, Honolulu time, at nine seconds after 11 p. m .), the Starfish Prime test was successfully detonated at an altitude of.

Pages 19 – 21 of " A ' Quick Look ' at the Technical Results of Starfish Prime ", August 1962 states:

Immediately after the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test in 1962, the U. S. military realized it had no ability to collect accurate data on the intense and persistent radiation belts created by the blast.

* 1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.

** Prime Ministers of Malta, 1921 – 1933, 1947 – 1958, 1962 – present

Meanwhile, among the many V. I. P. s who came to look were U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( 22 February 1962 ), Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom ( 6 March 1965 ), H. M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ( 27 May 1965 ), H. R. H.

In December 1962, their political rivalry led to an attempted coup by Prime Minister Dia.

* July 13 – Erik Scavenius, Prime Minister of Denmark ( d. 1962 )

In April 1962, Chirac was appointed head of the personal staff of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou.

The Bluegill Triple Prime and Kingfish high-altitude nuclear tests of October and November 1962 in Operation Fishbowl finally provided electromagnetic pulse data that was clear enough to enable physicists to accurately identify the physical mechanisms that were producing the electromagnetic pulses.

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.

The Prime Minister was supportive throughout the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 and Kennedy consulted him by telephone every day.

He was Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974 and also head of state from 1962 to 1981.

The demolition of the old Euston Station building in 1962 has been described as " one of the greatest acts of Post-War architectural vandalism in Britain " and is believed to have been finally sanctioned by the then Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

On December 21, 1962, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and James B. Donovan, a US lawyer, signed an agreement to exchange 1, 113 prisoners for US $ 53 million in food and medicine, sourced from private donations and from companies expecting tax concessions.

Whilst studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association in Michaelmas 1960, in which term he entertained both the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Home Secretary ( and de facto Deputy Prime Minister, although he did not hold the title until 1962 ) Rab Butler.

After the RF's victory in the 1962 Southern Rhodesian general election Smith became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Treasury under Prime Minister Winston Field.

U. S. President Harry S. Truman thus explained his decision to enter the Korean War in 1950, British Prime Minister Anthony Eden his confrontation of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Suez Crisis of 1956, U. S. President John F. Kennedy his " quarantine " of Cuba in 1962, U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson his resistance to communism in Indochina in the 1960s, and U. S. President Ronald Reagan his air strike on Libya in 1986.