1962
This page lists news articles and events for the year 1962.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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| Decades: | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s |
| Years: | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 |
Undated
January
- January 30:
- Event: "Laughing disease" breaks out in a girls' middle school in Tanzania - see An Epidemic of Laughing in the Bukoba District of Tanganyika
February
March
- May 27:
- Event: The underground fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania is accidentally started.
April
- April 21:
- Event: Century 21 Exposition (aka 1962 World's Fair) opens in Seattle. Between April and October, it draws nearly 10 million attendees. Nearly 20,000 people per day used the elevators of the Space Needle during this time.
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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