* Atlas Computer ( Manchester ) ( 1962 – 1971 ), an early computer built at the University of Manchester

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

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.

* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Iris Häussler, German artist

* 1901 – Lowell Stockman, American politician ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Art Alexakis, American singer, composer, and guitarist ( Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes )

* 1962 – Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

* 1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director

* 1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor

* 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player

* 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player

* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

* 1890 – Ellen Osiier, Danish fencer ( d. 1962 )

* 1962 – Thanos Kalliris, Greek singer-songwriter ( Bang )

* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor

The martial law continued until 1962 when the government of Field Marshal Ayub Khan commissioned a constitutional bench under Chief Justice of Pakistan, Muhammad Shahabuddin, containing ten senior justices, each five from East Pakistan and five from West Pakistan.

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

The 1962 constitution had provided the presidential system for both provincial states ( West Pakistan and East Pakistan ) that each states were given autonomy to run their separate presidential provincial governments.

The discovery and description of this species is credited to both Mary and Louis Leakey, who found fossils in Tanzania, East Africa, between 1962 and 1964.

Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., or " Stanvac ," operated in 50 countries, including East Africa, New Zealand and China, before it was dissolved in 1962.

* Escape from East Berlin ( 1962 )

Squatter Colony in Malad East has existed since 1962, and now, people living there pay a rent to the city council of 100 rupees a month.

By 1960 he began liquidating his general book business and in 1962 opened Fred A. Rosenstock Books on East Colfax Avenue in Denver specializing in western history.

On January 20, 1961 she sang for President John F. Kennedy's inauguration, and in 1962 she performed for President Kennedy and other dignitaries in the East Room of the White House, and also toured Australia.

The new R & B club needed a band for its opening night ; however, Morrison had left the Golden Eagles ( the group with which he had been performing at the time ), so he created a new band out of The Gamblers, an East Belfast group formed by Ronnie Millings, Billy Harrison, and Alan Henderson in 1962.

The Inglis Barracks at Mill Hill East were home to the Middlesex Regiment between 1905 and 1962.

The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968, amending legislation passed in 1962, removed the right of entry from 200, 000 south Asians long resident in British East Africa who had become the victims of the Africanization drive in newly independent Kenya and wished to move to Britain.

Bellaire remained a transportation center until 1962, when the East Jordan and Southern abandoned their trackage through Bellaire, and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway ( which was using the former Chicago and West Michigan line ) followed suit in 1982.

At the formation of the East Allegheny School District ( known as Westinghouse Valley Area Schools from 1962 to 1966 ), Westinghouse Memorial High School became the district's official high school until the building of East Allegheny High School in 1969.

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

In 1962 his father took him to Kingston to go to Kingston Technical school, where he ended up sharing his cousin's one rented room in East Kingston.

She also appeared in such films as East of Eden ( also 1955 ), with James Dean ( with whom she became close friends ), Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1962 ), with Paul Newman in the private-detective film Harper ( 1966 ), and Reflections in a Golden Eye ( 1967 ).

The body of East German Peter Fechter lying next to the Berlin Wall just after being shot in 1962 while trying to escape to the West.

On 17 August 1962, a teenaged East German, Peter Fechter, was shot in the pelvis by East German guards while trying to escape from East Berlin.

Pope John XXIII invited many other Christian denominations, including the Assyrian Church of the East, to send " observers " to the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ).