* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jamaica from the United Kingdom in 1962.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Trinidad and Tobago from the United Kingdom in 1962.

Day was ranked the biggest box office star for four years ( 1960 ; 1962 – 1964 ) and ranked in the top 10 for 10 years ( 1951 – 1952 ; 1959 – 1966 ).

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

Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, by vote of the city council, declared May 12, 1962 as " Frank Capra Day.

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

* Independence Day in the Philippines until 1962 ; now known as Filipino-American Friendship Day July 4

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Burundi from Belgium in 1962.

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Rwanda from Belgium in 1962.

* Independence Day, celebrate the independence of Algeria from France in 1962.

* 1962 – Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities ; 46 dead and at least U. S. $ 230 million in damages

* Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Uganda from United Kingdom in 1962.

* Eric Ambler: The Light of Day ( 1962 ) ( filmed as Topkapi )

* Il Giorno più corto ( The Shortest Day, 1962 )

This trend was started by Darryl F. Zanuck's production The Longest Day in 1962, based on the first day of the 1944 D-Day landings.

Significant windstorms in Clark County include the Columbus Day windstorm of October 12, 1962, and an April 6, 1972 tornado which rated F3 on the Fujita scale, striking a local school.

Several scenes of the 1962 movie The Longest Day were filmed on the beaches of the island.

* The Longest Day ( 1962 )

* The Longest Day ( 1962 )

The most notable of his films in the decade included the war epics The Longest Day ( 1962 ) and Anzio ( 1968 ), the Shirley MacLaine comedy-musical What a Way to Go!

* The Longest Day ( film ), a 1962 war film based on Ryan's book

* The Longest Day ( 1962 )

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

Kelly also frequently appeared on television shows during the 1960s, but his one effort at television series, as Father Chuck O ' Malley in Going My Way ( 1962 – 63 ), based on the Best Picture of 1944 starring Bing Crosby, was dropped after thirty episodes, although it enjoyed great popularity in Roman Catholic countries outside of the United States.

However, he appeared 23 times in the Essex Second XI between 1962 and 1964, before concentrating entirely on football.

After being debriefed extensively by the CIA, Lockheed, and the Air Force, on March 6, 1962, Powers appeared before a Senate Armed Services Select Committee hearing chaired by Senator Richard Russell and including Senators Prescott Bush and Barry Goldwater Sr.

In 1962, Voight married actress Lauri Peters, whom he met when they both appeared in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music.

The Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed., 1989 ) kludge entry cites one source for this word's earliest recorded usage, definition, and etymology: Jackson W. Granholm's 1962 " How to Design a Kludge " article, which appeared in the American computer magazine Datamation.

Castaneda had appeared in the first Mutiny on the Bounty film in 1935, some 27 years before the 1962 remake with Brando as Fletcher Christian.

After her final film, Davis appeared for a brief time as a guest star in television dramas such as Wagon Train and The Tall Man until 1962, when she retired as an actress.

The logo first appeared on the 1962 Polara 500 and the mid-year 1962 Custom 880.

Gardner again appeared with Lancaster, this time paired with Kirk Douglas, in Seven Days in May ( 1962 ), a taut thriller about a military takeover of the US government.

Trocchi appeared at the 1962 Edinburgh Writers Festival where he claimed " sodomy " as a basis for his writing.

Nimoy appeared three times on NBC's Wagon Train, the No. 1 program of 1962.

Sinclair appeared in the publication as an assistant editor in March 1962.

Sinclair undertook a survey for Instrument Practice of semiconductor devices, which appeared in four sections between September 1962 and January 1963.

Things became considerably more tense in 1962 when the new CDC 3600 started to near production quality, and appeared to be exactly what management wanted, when they wanted it.

He appeared in the films The Music Man in 1962, American Graffiti in 1973 and The Shootist in 1976, the latter during his run on Happy Days.

He appeared eight times between 1962 and 1964 on The DuPont Show of the Week and as Franklin Gaer in 1964 in the episode " Man Is a Rock " on Dr. Kildare.

Pickens appeared in numerous television guest shots, including three episodes of NBC's The Wide Country ( 1962 ) with Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine and one appearance on ABC's The Legend of Jesse James, The Fugitive and a first-season episode of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ..

Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons.

Hockey first appeared in Middle Tennessee in 1962 in the form of the Eastern Hockey League's Dixie Flyers.

The " actor " Gerald McBoing-Boing, as opposed to the " character ", also appeared in the 1962 TV special Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, playing the part of Tiny Tim.

He appeared in various roles in the comedy series The Seven Faces of Jim from 1962, alongside Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield, as well as parts in Bold as Brass and Foreign Affairs ( as the Russian ambassador Grischa Petrovitch ).

He appeared in the 1962 episode of Route 66, " 1800 Days to Justice ", and " The Clover Throne " as Willis.

In 1962, he appeared in the Bonanza episode entitled " The Decision ", as a doctor sentenced to hang for the murder of a journalist.