In 1962, on leave from the university, Singer was named as the first director of meteorological satellite services for the National Weather Satellite Center, now part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and directed a program for using satellites to forecast the weather.

New qualifications were developed to cope with changing aspirations and economics, with the Leaving Certificate being replaced by the Scottish Certificate of Education Ordinary Grade (' O-Grade ') and Higher Grade (' Higher ') qualifications in 1962, which became the basic entry qualification for university study.

In 1962, the first Mozambican university was founded by the Portuguese authorities in the provincial capital, Lourenço Marques, the Universidade de Lourenço Marques, awarding a wide range of degrees from engineering to medicine, during a time that in the European Portuguese mainland only four public universities were in operation.

With the continuous growth of the city's population and its expanding economy centered on the seaport, from the 1940s, Portugal's administration built a network of primary and secondary schools, industrial and commercial schools as well as the first university in the region-the University of Lourenço Marques opened in 1962.

In 1962, in line with constitutional reforms governing official language use, the French and Dutch sections of the university became autonomous within a common governing structure.

On the night before the Ole Miss riot of 1962 protesting Meredith's entry to the university, Barnett gave his famous fifteen-word " I Love Mississippi " speech at the University of Mississippi football game in Jackson.

Growing steadily, the University College was promoted to university status in 1962, receiving a new Royal charter in January of that year, and adopting the name The University of Keele.

Ross Barnett at signing of bill granting the college university status in 1962

The University received praise from Time Magazine in 1962 for being a Catholic university that accepted Jews with low household income.

Ruhr University Bochum ( German Ruhr-Universität Bochum, RUB ), located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany since World War II.

In 1957, within months of working with the colonial civil service, he left and joined the military as one of the first and few university graduates to join the army: O. Olutoye ( 1956 ); C. Odumegwu-Ojukwu ( 1957 ), E. A. Ifeajuna and C. O. Rotimi ( 1960 ), and A. Ademoyega ( 1962 ).

ODU awarded its first bachelor's degrees in 1956, became Old Dominion College in 1962, and attained university status in 1969.

UTFSM was the first Chilean university to confer a doctorate in engineering in 1962 and the first higher-education institution in Latin America to confer this degree.

The university has Master's Degree Programs in Engineering ( 1962 ), Economics ( 1972 ), Business Administration ( 1972 ), and Education ( 1979 ).

By 1962, HIT had accomplished the change from civic purposes to that of military, becoming an all-embracing, multidisciplinary university, whose disciplines complemented one another, and served the construction of national economy and national defense science and technology.

However, by decision of the vice-chancellor, he was expelled from the university in October 1962.

In 1962 he was arrested for alleged involvement in the " Taiwan Independence League ", over 30 more " accomplices ", mostly army officer school and university students, were also arrested.

Dr. Schmon was the primary force behind getting a university established in the Niagara peninsula and was the chairman of the Brock University Founders ' Committee, formed in 1962.

Earning a living for himself and his family from university teaching, Gass began to publish stories that were selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of 1959, 1961, 1962, 1968 and 1980, as well as Two Hundred Years of Great American Short Stories.

Leaving school with seven O-levels and three A-levels, in 1962 he read English at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he gained a third class degree, coincidentally the same class of degree as his Countdown co-star Carol Vorderman was to attain at the same university nearly twenty years later.

Levi later served as university Provost ( 1962 – 1968 ) and President ( 1968 – 1975 ), and then as United States Attorney General under Gerald Ford.

In 1962, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music was acquired by the university.

Onwordi immediately moved to London to attend university and Emecheta joined him in 1962.

The university has had six Adrian Dominican Sisters serve as president since its inception: Mother M. Gerald Barry, 1940-1961 ; Mother M. Genevieve Weber, 1962 – 1963 ; Sister M. Dorothy Browne, 1963 – 1974 ; Sister M. Trinita Flood, 1974 – 1981 ; Sister Jeanne O ' Laughlin, 1981 – 2004 ; and Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD, 2004 – present.

Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1956, and, following his father's death in 1962, succeeded him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute, a position he held until 1970.

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.

On June 3, 1962, Broadway became one-way south of Canal Street, with Trinity Place and Church Street carrying northbound traffic.

Marker became known internationally for the short film La jetée ( The Pier ) in 1962.

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.

Christopher Syn became the basis for the 1962 Disney production ( see below ).

As Martin Pearson he published the " Ajax Calkins " series, which became the basis for his novel Destiny's Orbit ( 1962 ).

As the public became more aware of environmental issues, concern about air pollution, water pollution, solid waste disposal, dwindling energy resources, radiation, pesticide poisoning ( particularly as described in Rachel Carson's influential Silent Spring, 1962 ), noise pollution, and other environmental problems engaged a broadening number of sympathizers.

With the success of 1962 constitution, the East Pakistan had became a Presidential republic and abolished all parliamentary institutions in East Pakistan.

* In 1962, his home in Anacostia ( Washington, DC ) became part of the National Park System, and in 1988 was designated the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.

He became a leading figure in early space research, was involved in the development of earth observation satellites, and in 1962 established the National Weather Bureau's Satellite Service Center.

At the 1962 general election the Grenada National Party won a majority and Herbert Blaize became Chief Minister for the second time.

Algeria became independent in 1962.

In 1962 he established his own Brabham marque with fellow Australian Ron Tauranac, which became the largest manufacturer of customer racing cars in the world in the 1960s.

Eleanor noted that as 1962 wore on, expressions of tension in his life " became worse and were reflected in bouts of deep depression and drinking.

In addition, Hartmann became a member of the Academy of Arts in Munich ( 1952 ) and Berlin ( 1955 ) and received an honorary doctorate from Spokane Conservatory, Washington ( 1962 ).

Liquid crystal materials became a topic of research into the development of flat panel electronic displays beginning in 1962 at RCA Laboratories.

After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations Trust Territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of Rwanda and Burundi gained independence on 1 July 1962.

John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.

John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.

Tahitian actress Tarita Teriipia, who played his love interest in Mutiny on the Bounty, became Brando's third wife on August 10, 1962.

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

Perth became known worldwide as the " City of Light " when city residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the earth on Friendship 7 in 1962.

It became independent from New Zealand in 1962.