* 1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

* 1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.

* 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.

The first batch of herbicides was unloaded at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam, on January 9, 1962.

The show was first announced in The New York Times on October 5, 1961: " For the winter of 1962, Laurents is nurturing another musical project, The Natives Are Restless.

He received tenure at Berkeley in 1962 and was given his first sabbatical in 1964.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

The first, classified, edition of Factbook was published in August 1962, and the first unclassified version in June 1971.

The first international convention for coin collectors was held 15 – 18 August 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, and was sponsored by the American Numismatic Association and the Royal Canadian Numismatic Association.

The first of the three laws, previously termed Clarke's Law, was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the essay " Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination ", in Profiles of the Future ( 1962 ).

In February 1962, the United States launched an embargo against Cuba, and Lansdale presented a 26-page, top-secret timetable for implementation of the overthrow of the Cuban Government, mandating that guerrilla operations begin in August and September, and in the first two weeks of October: " Open revolt and overthrow of the Communist regime ".

In April 1961, Jed Stone made his first appearance and returned the following year in 1962.

Carbamazepine was first marketed as a drug to treat trigeminal neuralgia ( formerly known as tic douloureux ) in 1962.

East-West tensions increased during the first term of U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( 1981 – 1985 ), reaching levels not seen since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as Reagan increased US military spending to 7 % of the GDP.

His book, The Chaos of Cults, which was first published in 1938, became a classic in the field as it was repeatedly revised and updated until 1962.

Dallas logged its first win in the series on October 29, 1961 and New York's first was on November 11, 1962.

Time Out was followed by several albums with a similar approach, including Time Further Out: Miro Reflections ( 1961 ), using more 5 / 4, 6 / 4, and 9 / 8, plus the first attempt at 7 / 4 ; Countdown: Time in Outer Space ( dedicated to John Glenn ) ( 1962 ), featuring 11 / 4 and more 7 / 4 ; Time Changes ( 1963 ), with much 3 / 4, 10 / 4 ( which was really 5 + 5 ), and 13 / 4 ; and Time In ( 1966 ).

* 1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress.

The Oxford English dictionary cites a 1962 technical report as the first to use the term " data-base.

The Commission on Restructure, chaired by Granville T. Walker, held its first meeting on October 30 & November 1, 1962.

A sporting 2 + 2 seater version was also available as the Auto-Union 1000 SP from 1957 to 1964, the first years only as a coupé and from 1962 also as a convertible.

Graduating from his plastic saxophone to a real instrument in 1962, Bowie formed his first band at the age of 15.

* 1962 – Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.

* 1962 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major ( b. 1910 )

He observes that the Dutch 18-year-olds of 1962 had a major nutritional handicap.

In the 1950s the primary destination was to the United Kingdom ; but since the United Kingdom restricted emigration in 1962, major flow has been to the United States and Canada.

The industry saw a major breakthrough in 1962 when the government granted the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau ( STDM ), a syndicate jointly formed by Hong Kong and Macau businessmen, the monopoly rights to all forms of gambling.

In 1962 the Sidney Janis Gallery mounted The New Realists, the first major pop art group exhibition in an uptown art gallery in New York City.

* National Boxing Association, a major boxing sanctioning body that became the World Boxing Association in 1962

With assistance from the Organization of American States ( OAS ), the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America ( ECLA ), in 1962 Paraguay established the Technical Planning Secretariat ( Secretaría Técnica de Planificación — STP ), the major economic planning arm of the government.

Rockwell had a major research laboratory in Thousand Oaks, California founded in 1962 as the North American Science Center.

Continuing to be prone to natural disasters the city was flooded by the Vardar River in 1962 and then suffered considerable damage from a major earthquake measuring 6. 1 on the Richter scale, which killed over 1, 000 people and made another 120, 000 homeless.

* September 30 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major ( d. 1962 )

** The 1962 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers ; It would last for 114 days.

The next major Royal Shakespeare Company production, in 1962, went in the opposite direction.

Williams ' major collections are Spring and All ( 1923 ), Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems ( 1962 ), and Paterson ( 1963, repr.

The first major split was the exclusion of Gruppe SPUR, the German section, from the SI on February 10, 1962.

O ' Toole's major break came when he was chosen to play T. E. Lawrence in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), after Marlon Brando proved unavailable and Albert Finney turned down the role.

The major biographies are the uplifting two-volume Aneurin Bevan by Michael Foot ( 1962 and 1974 ) and the more sceptical Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism, by John Campbell ( 1987 ).

Two major storms influenced the course of Worcester County history in the 20th century: the hurricane of 1933, which badly damaged Ocean City and Public Landing, but also cut the Ocean City Inlet, and the nor ' easter of 1962, which destroyed much of the residential development on Assateague Island and led to the creation of the National Seashore.

In 1962, Clive Hart wrote the first major book-length study of the work since Campbell's Skeleton Key, Structure and Motif in " Finnegans Wake " which approached the work from the increasingly influential field of structuralism.

Fiscal year TOA increased from $ 48. 4 billion in 1962 to $ 49. 5 billion in 1965 ( before the major Vietnam increases ) to $ 74. 9 billion in 1968, McNamara's last year in office.

In 1962, it was transferred to Hawker Siddeley Canada and continued as a major repair and overhaul business.

Fearing for his own position, Macmillan organised a major Cabinet change in July 1962 — also named ' the night of long knives ' as a symbol of his alleged betrayal of the Conservative party.

The first major rebuilding of the venue took place ahead of the 1962 season, when the wooden stands were torn and replaced with concrete stands on both long sides, and the south stand received a roof.

A year after its formation, in October 1962, the Agency faced its first major intelligence test during the superpower confrontation that developed after Soviet missiles were discovered at bases in Cuba by U. S. Air Force spy planes.

Anka's first acting role in a major film was in a cameo performance in The Longest Day ( 1962 ).