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Concept
1962
Summary
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
January 1962
January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba.
January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster.
January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact.
January 12 – The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian.
January 13 – Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China.
January 15 – Portugal abandons the U.N. General Assembly, due to the debate over Angola.
January 16 – A military coup occurs in the Dominican Republic.
January 19 – A counter-coup occurs in the Dominican Republic; the old government returns, except for the new president Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly.
January 22 – The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership; the suspension is lifted in 2009 (47 years later).
January 24 – The Organisation armée secrète (OAS) bombs the French Foreign Ministry.
January 26 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon; it later misses the Moon by .
January 27 – The Soviet government changes all place names honoring Molotov, Kaganovich and Georgy Malenkov.
January 30 – Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed, when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit.
February 1962
February 3 – The United States embargo against Cuba is announced.
February 4–5 – During a new moon and solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical planets occurs (it includes all five of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and Moon), all of them within 16° of one another on the ecliptic. A total solar eclipse is visible in Asia, Australia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the 49th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 130.
February 5 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
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