Significant demographic shifts in the island population began in 1962 when the French financed, Mauritian Company, Societe Huiliere de Diego et Peros, which had consolidated ownership of all the plantations in the Chagos in 1883, sold the plantations to the Seychelles Company, Chagos-Agalega Company, which then owned the entire Chagos Archipelago, except for six acres at the mouth of the Diego Garcia lagoon.

However, beginning in 1962, the Chagos-Agalega Company began hiring Seychellois contract workers almost exclusively, along with a few from Mauritius, as many of the Ilois left the Chagos because of the change in management ; by 1964, 80 % of the population were Seychellois under 18-month or 2-year contracts.

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

* Nobel Lectures, the Physiology or Medicine 1942 – 1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964

* 1962 — Donald J. Russell ( President, Southern Pacific Company )

The first practical visible-spectrum ( red ) LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak, Jr., while working at General Electric Company.

Rice acted as a temporary intermediary in the transfer of land between Humble Oil and Refining Company and NASA, for the creation of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center ( now called Johnson Space Center ) in 1962.

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A proposal to study the use of a Saturn S-IV as a manned space laboratory was documented in 1962 by the Douglas Aircraft Company.

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

Gilbert directed all the revivals during his lifetime, and after his death, the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company had exclusive performing rights to the Savoy operas until 1962.

These have included Tyrone Guthrie's 1960 production from Stratford, Ontario, seen on Broadway in 1960 and in London in 1962 and a New Sadler's Wells Opera Company production first seen on 4 June 1984 at Sadler's Wells Theatre, which was seen also in New York.

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As public interest grew, car companies started to introduce special models or variants for rallying, such as the British Motor Corporation's highly successful Mini Cooper, introduced in 1962, and its successor the Mini Cooper S ( 1963 ), developed by the Cooper Car Company.

In 1962 she played Imogen in William Gaskill's production of Cymbeline for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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By the time the aircraft flew in 1962, the Company was already part of BAC.

She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in December 1961 playing Anya in The Cherry Orchard at the Aldwych Theatre in London, and made her Stratford-upon-Avon debut in April 1962 as Isabella in Measure for Measure.

* The Willowdale Handcar: Or, the Return of the Black Doll, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962

* Robert J. Alexander, “ Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre and ‘ Indo-America ,’” in Prophets of the Revolution: Profiles of Latin American Leaders ( New York: Macmillan Company: 1962 ), 75-108.

The development was constructed by Sengra ( now the Graham Company ) beginning in 1962 on land that was formerly owned by Florida State Senator Ernest ' Cap ' Graham.

Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in 1962: the British Railways Board.

Upon Jamaica's independence in 1962, the Cayman Islands broke its administrative links with Jamaica and opted to become a direct dependency of the British Crown, with the chief official of the islands being the Administrator.

For instance, Idi Amin Dada, who had been a British army lieutenant prior to Uganda's independence from Britain in October 1962, subsequently styled himself as " His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada,,, Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular ".

* 1962 – Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter

* 1962 – Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian

After the Federation of the West Indies collapsed in 1962, the British government tried to form a small federation out of its remaining dependencies in the Eastern Caribbean.

The fictional British Secret Service agent has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video game formats as well as being used in the longest continually running and the second-highest grossing film franchise to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond.

* 1962 – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting concludes, among other things, that the British public did not want commercial radio broadcasting.

* 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.

* 1962 – Paul Webb, British musician ( Talk Talk,. O. rang )

* 1962 Manchurian Candidate nominated for Best Film-Both Any Source and British

These films, influenced by one of Anderson ' heroes, the French filmmaker Jean Vigo, and made in the tradition of the British documentaries of Humphrey Jennings, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema that emerged in the next decade, with Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) and Anderson's own This Sporting Life ( 1963 ), produced by Reisz.

In a second constitutional conference in London in November 1962, the British Government agreed to give Nyasaland self-governing status the following year.

The presence of British and other Commonwealth troops were crucial to Malaysia's security during the Malayan Emergency ( 1948 – 1960 ) and the Indonesian Confrontation ( 1962 – 1966 ), which was sparked by Malaya's merger with the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to form Malaysia in 1963.

Even though Mauritius was a British colony, the British Overseas Airways Corporation ( B. O. A. C ) began to come to Mauritius only from 1962.

* 1962 – Sharron Davies, British swimmer

* 1962 – John Squire, British guitarist ( The Stone Roses )

* 1962 – Jacqui Smith, British politician