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Significant Events of 1962

This quiz tests your knowledge of significant events and notable figures from the year 1962, covering various topics including politics, natural disasters, and entertainment.

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1 July 20 – ________ and Tunisia reestablish diplomatic relations.

2 June 6 – President ________ gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

3 ________, American television host

4 October 27 – ________, Italian politician (plane crash) (b.

5 Typhoon Wanda strikes ________, killing at least 130 and wounding more than 600.

6 ________ is accepted into the United Nations.

7 Mizan Zainal Abidin, current Yang di-Pertuan Agong of ________

8 March 19 – An armistice begins in ________; however, the OAS continues its terrorist attacks against Algerians.

9 ________ – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian

10 ________ – Theresa Andrews, American swimmer

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Motown recording "Do You Love Me" by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987.
  • the film David and Lisa, shot in black-and-white for just $183,000, was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Directing.
  • the last ever train on the Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on 29 December 1962 due to heavy snow.
  • although Were Ilu served as an organizing point for the Ethiopian army at the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War, as late as 1962 this settlement was connected to nearby towns by only trails.
  • a congressional reporter mistranscribed testimony about a U.S. nuclear test from 1962 named Sedan nuclear test, leading to fears that a nuclear weapon had actually been tested in the Sudan.
  • Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S..
  • MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable".
  • a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand.
  • "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society.
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