* 1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.

Merivale joined her for a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Latin America that lasted from July 1961 until May 1962 ; and Leigh enjoyed positive reviews without sharing the spotlight with Olivier.

In February 1962, the West End ( H. M. Tennent ) production launched a five-month Scandinavian tour opening in Copenhagen, continuing to Oslo, Goteborg, Stockholm and Helsinki.

From then on, it was played in every season through 1976 – 77, aside from 1962 – 63 ( a season that included a lengthy overseas tour ).

The Hermes were based at Manston, from where they operated Silver Arrow all-passenger services to Le Touquet and inclusive tour charters to European destinations until parent company BAS's acquisition by British United Airways ( BUA ) parent Air Holdings in 1962.

The Hermes fleet had continued in operation serving several UK airports, mainly on inclusive tour flights, with the last example being retired from service in late 1962.

Before the 1962 – 1963 tour, the painting was assessed, for insurance purposes, as valued at $ 100 million ; the insurance was not bought.

He performed often in The Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas during 1962 and 1963, and also in nine Midwestern states and a tour of Germany.

The musical previewed in the U. S. with a 1962 national tour and premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on January 6, 1963.

She also undertook a tour of Israel around the same time, which was well-received ; she sang some songs in German during her concerts, including, from 1962, a German version of Pete Seeger's anti-war anthem " Where Have All the Flowers Gone ", thus breaking the unofficial taboo against the use of German in Israel.

In 1962, Constantin Silvestri became Principal Conductor and raised the standard and profile of the orchestra, with an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1963, a first European tour in 1965, notable recordings and regular radio broadcasts.

In 1962 the orchestra undertook its first tour of India, Australia and the Far East.

Gambon made his professional stage début in the Gate Theatre Dublin's 1962 production of Othello, playing " Second Gentleman ", followed by a European tour.

* Othello ( Second Gentleman ), Gate Theatre, Dublin, professional debut, followed by a European tour, 1962

According to the July 14, 1967 Time magazine article, after " Don't Make Me Over " hit in 1962, she answered the call of her manager (" C ' mon, baby, you gotta go "), left school and went on a tour of France, where critics crowned her " Paris ' Black Pearl ," having been introduced on stage at Paris Olympia that year by Marlene Dietrich.

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

His 1962 world tour included visits to Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

1962 EP In 1960 she embarked on a concert tour of France and Belgium with Sacha Distel, who remained a close friend until his death in 2004.

It was in 1962 when he needed a band to tour with him that ' Joe Brown and the Bruvvers ' was cemented, containing two members of the Spacemen, brothers Tony and Pete Oakman, who had also remained with him in the " Boy Meets Girls " band.

They met first on the senior amateur tour in 1958 and dominated the amateur circuit until 1962, before Laver turned pro.

While on a tour to the United States of America as a member of the Gandhi Peace Foundation delegation, in September 1962 Rajaji visited American President John F. Kennedy at the White House.

In an unusual twist, Jim Reeves recorded a version of the song while on tour in South Africa in 1962.

Having completed his first tour of England with West Indies in 1957, he followed the advice of his mentor Frank Worrell and became the professional at Radcliffe Cricket Club in the Central Lancashire League, staying for five seasons from 1958 to 1962.

Teaming with guitarist Charlie Byrd, who had just returned from a U. S. State Department tour of Brazil, Getz recorded Jazz Samba in 1962 and it became a hit.

* 1962 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer

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

In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.

For example, they played Rhodesia ( the future Zimbabwe ) in 1910, 1924, 1938, 1955, 1962, 1968 & 1974 during their tours to South Africa.

In addition, they toured pre-independence Namibia ( then South West Africa ), in 1955, 1962, 1968, and 1974.

In 1962 he was selected as Labour candidate for Aberdeen South.

* 1962 – Hugh Page, South African cricketer

* 1962 – Arnold Vosloo, South African actor

* 1962 – Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor

* 1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter and musician ( The Housemartins and Beautiful South )

In July 1962, the United States tested a thermonuclear weapon high over the South Pacific at around 400 km in the upper atmosphere, in this region, creating an artificial belt of high-energy electrons, and some of them were still around 4 – 5 years later ( such tests are now banned by treaty ).

Regular roll-on roll-off ferry services link the North and South Islands between Wellington and Picton, since 1962.

* 1962 – Sumi Jo, South Korean operatic soprano

* 1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.

South Korea's real gross domestic product expanded by an average of more than 8 percent per year, from US $ 2. 7 billion in 1962 to US $ 230 billion in 1989, breaking the trillion dollar mark in 2007.

The EU has been the single largest foreign investor in South Korea since 1962, and accounted for almost 45 % of all FDI inflows into Korea in 2006.

The first official White House guide, published in 1962, suggested a link between Hoban's design for the South Portico, and Château de Rastignac, a neoclassical country house located in La Bachellerie in the Dordogne region of France and designed by Mathurin Salat.

*** 1962 – By mid-1962, the number of U. S. military advisers in South Vietnam had risen from 700 to 12, 000.

In March 1962, SEALs were deployed to South Vietnam as advisors for the purpose of training Army of the Republic of Vietnam commandos in the same methods they were trained themselves.

In, 1962, during Hollings ' term as Governor, the Confederate flag went up above the South Carolina Statehouse where it was flown underneath the US and state flags.

The LGM-30A Minuteman-I was first test-fired on 1 February 1961, and entered into the Strategic Air Command ’ s arsenal in 1962, at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana ; the “ improved ” LGM-30B became operational at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, F. E.

For its first four decades in the National Museum of Natural History, the Hope Diamond lay in its necklace inside a glass-fronted safe as part of the gems and jewelry gallery, except for a few brief excursions: a 1962 exhibition to the Louvre ; the 1965 Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg, South Africa ; and two visits back to Harry Winston's premises in New York City, once in 1984, and once for a 50th anniversary celebration in 1996.

In South America the first forestry school was established in Brazil, in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, in 1962, and moved the next year to become a faculty at the Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba.

Subsequent Arts Council tours included Rigoletto ( 1960 ; Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales ), Così fan tutte ( 1961 ; New South Wales, Queensland ) and La traviata ( 1962 ; New South Wales, Queensland ), all conducted by Tintner.