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{{short description|Month of 1962}}
{{Events by month|1962}}
{{calendar|year=1962|month=July}}

[[File:Starfish Prime aurora from Honolulu 1.jpg|250px|thumb|left|July 9, 1962: Hawaii receives EMP from distant nuclear test]]
[[File:Rolling Stones 1965.jpg|200px|thumb|right|July 12, 1962: The Rolling Stones debut]]
[[File:Sedan Plowshare Crater.jpg|250px|thumb|left|July 6, 1962: Nevada's Sedan Crater, 1200 feet wide, 320 feet deep, is created instantly by a nuclear bomb]]
[[File:Walmart logo (2025).svg|200px|thumb|right|July 2, 1962: First Walmart store opens]]

The following events occurred in '''July 1962''':

==[[July 1]], 1962 (Sunday)==
[[File:Flag of Rwanda (1962-2001).svg|120px|thumb|right|Rwanda]]
[[File:Flag of Burundi (1962–1966).svg|120px|thumb|right|Burundi]]
*[[Rwanda]] and [[Kingdom of Burundi|Burundi]], the northern and southern portions of [[Ruanda-Urundi]], were both granted independence from [[Belgium]] on the same day.<ref>{{cite news |title=African Nations Born as Belgian Rule Ends |newspaper=[[Milwaukee Journal]] |date=July 1, 1962 |page=5}}</ref> [[Grégoire Kayibanda]] of the [[Hutu]] tribe was sworn in as [[President of Rwanda]] at [[Kigali]], and [[Mwambutsa IV of Burundi|Mwambutsa IV]], who had reigned as the titular leader of the [[Tutsi]] tribe since 1915, continued as [[King of Burundi]].
*In [[Merritt Island, Florida]], [[NASA]] formed the Launch Operations Center, now known as the [[John F. Kennedy Space Center|Kennedy Space Center]]. Since December 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of human spaceflight including the launch operations for the [[Apollo program|Apollo]], [[Skylab]], and [[Space Shuttle]] programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/history/story/ch1.html|title=Kennedy Space Center Story|publisher=NASA|access-date=May 13, 2019|archive-date=June 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603115439/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/history/story/ch1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*The first Canadian [[Medicare (Canada)|Medicare]] plan was launched in [[Saskatchewan]], resulting in the [[Saskatchewan doctors' strike]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Doctors Strike In Province |newspaper=[[Miami News]] |date=July 2, 1962 |page=1}}</ref> Thousands of citizens joined the protests against compulsory health care ten days later.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thousands Protest MD Plan |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 11, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*[[Bruce McLaren]] won the [[1962 Reims Grand Prix]]. McClaren of New Zealand, a former rugby player turned race car driver, finished the {{convert|250|mi|adj=on}} course in 2 hours, 2 seconds.<ref>{{cite news |title=McLaren Wins Reims Classic |newspaper=[[Youngstown Vindicator]] |location=[[Youngstown, Ohio]] |date=July 2, 1962 |page=13}}</ref>
*[[Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo]] became [[President of El Salvador]]. He had been the only candidate in [[1962 Salvadoran presidential election|elections on April 30]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Rivera Sworn In El Salvador |newspaper=[[Spartanburg Herald]] |location=[[Spartanburg, South Carolina]] |date=July 1, 1962 |page=14}}</ref>
*Relocation of the [[Manned Spacecraft Center]] (now the [[Johnson Space Center]]) from [[Langley Field]] to [[Houston]], [[Texas]], was completed.<ref name="Grimwood">{{Source attribution}} {{cite book |title=Project Mercury - A Chronology |chapter=PART III (B) Operational Phase of Project Mercury June 1962 through June 12, 1963 |last=Grimwood |first=James M. |series=NASA Special Publication-4001 |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4001/p3b.htm |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=12 February 2023}}</ref> 
*The Treaty of [[Nordic Council|Nordic Cooperation]] of [[Helsinki]], signed on March 23, 1962, came into force.
*Supporters of [[Algeria]]n independence won a 90% majority in a [[1962 Algerian independence referendum|referendum]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Freedom From France |newspaper=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=July 4, 1962 |page=3}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Andre Braugher]], American actor best known for his roles as Detective [[Frank Pembleton]] in ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' and Captain Raymond Holt in ''[[Brooklyn Nine-Nine]]''; in [[Chicago, Illinois]] (d. 2023)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://people.com/archive/andre-braugher-vol-47-no-18/ |title=Andre Braugher |date=May 12, 1997 |publisher=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date=January 19, 2019}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]], 80, Indian politician and [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] since 1948<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/07/02/archives/dr-bc-roy-dies-indian-leader-80-west-bengal-chief-minister-was-also.html |title=Dr. B.C. Roy dies; Indian Leader, 80; West Bengal Chief Minister Was Also a Physician Brought Health to Politics Father an Official |date=July 2, 1962 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=April 26, 2021}}</ref>

==[[July 2]], 1962 (Monday)==
*[[Sam Walton]] opened the first [[Walmart]] store as [[Walmart|Wal-Mart Discount City]] in [[Rogers, Arkansas]], United States. By 1970, there would be 38 Walmart stores.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/transform/cron.html |title=The Rise of Wal-Mart |publisher=[[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]] |date=November 16, 2004}}</ref> After 50 years, there were more than 9,766 stores in 27 countries, and 11,766 by mid-2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/256172/total-number-of-walmart-stores-worldwide/ |title=Total number of Walmart stores worldwide from 2008 to 2019 |publisher=[[Statista]]}}</ref>
*Off-the-pad [[Project Gemini|Gemini]] ejection tests began at [[Naval Ordnance Test Station]] and were completed by the first week of August. The tests showed problems which led to two important design changes, adding a drogue-gun method of deploying the parachute and installing a three-point harness-release system similar to those used in military aircraft.<ref name="Grimwood 2">{{Source attribution}} {{cite book |title=Project Gemini Technology and Operations - A Chronology |chapter=PART I (B) Concept and Design January 1962 through December 1962 |last1=Grimwood |first1=James M. |last2=Hacker |first2=Barton C. |last3=Vorzimmer |first3=Peter J. |series=NASA Special Publication-4002 |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/p1b.htm |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=20 February 2023}}</ref>

==[[July 3]], 1962 (Tuesday)==
*France and its President, [[Charles de Gaulle]], recognized the independence of Algeria, with the signing of the declaration at a meeting of the French Cabinet.<ref>{{cite news |title=Algeria Free- Still Fighting; France Leaves After 132 Years |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 3, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*The [[Chichester Festival Theatre]], Britain's first large modern theatre with a thrust stage, opened. [[Laurence Olivier]] was the first artistic director.
*The [[1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]] opened in Prague and ran until July 8.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=III. The world artistic gymnastics championships |title=Olympic Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0IFYAAAAYAAJ |year=1985 |publisher=[[Cometé international Olympique]] |page=35 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' 
**[[Tom Cruise]], American film actor known for ''[[Risky Business]]'', ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'' and the ''[[Mission: Impossible film series|Mission: Impossible]]'' film series; as Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in [[Syracuse, New York]]<ref>{{cite book |first=Marie |last=Cahill |title=Tom Cruise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6x0XZk9FzdwC |date=May 1992 |publisher=[[Smithmark]] |isbn=978-0-8317-8669-4 |page=9 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
**[[Thomas Gibson]], American TV actor known for ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' and ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'';in [[Charleston, South Carolina]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/70930%7C0/Thomas-Gibson |title=Thomas Gibson |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]]}}</ref>

==[[July 4]], 1962 (Wednesday)==
*The [[Burma Socialist Programme Party]] was established by [[Ne Win]]'s military regime.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/BSPP_CONSTITUTION.htm |title=The Constitution of the Burma Socialist Programme Party}}</ref>
[[File:Mercury Seven astronauts at the Houston Coliseum for the 1962 Fourth of July barbecue.jpg|220px|thumb|right|July 4, 1962: The Mercury astronauts at the Houston Coliseum barbecue]]
*Houston welcomed the [[Mercury astronauts]] with its Fourth of July parade, followed by a barbecue at the [[Sam Houston Coliseum]] featuring a performance by burlesque dancer [[Sally Rand]]. This event would form the basis of a major set piece in [[Tom Wolfe]]'s 1979 book ''[[The Right Stuff (book)|The Right Stuff]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Jacobs |first=Alan |author-link=Alan Jacobs (academic) |title=Tom Wolfe's 'The Right Stuff' and the Idolization of John Glenn |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |department=Technology |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/tom-wolfes-the-right-stuff-and-the-idolization-of-john-glenn/237145/ |date=12 April 2011 |access-date=29 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Viator |first=Ray |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jL6GDwAAQBAJ&dq=July+1962+Houston+Coliseum+astronauts&pg=PA36 |title=Houston, Space City USA |location=[[College Station, Texas]] |publisher=[[Texas A&M University Press]] |year=2019 |series=Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities |volume=20 |isbn=9781623497736 |page=36 |access-date=29 March 2023 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Pam Shriver]], American tennis player, winner of multiple women's doubles championships with Martina Navratilova; in [[Baltimore]]
**[[Neil Morrissey]], English comedian and actor; in [[Stafford]], [[Staffordshire]]

==[[July 5]], 1962 (Thursday)==
*The French Assembly voted, 241 to 72 to end the immunity of former Prime Minister [[Georges Bidault]] against arrest and prosecution, which he had held in April 1961, when he had called for the overthrow of President [[Charles De Gaulle]]. The vote cleared the way for a treason indictment of Bidault, who had fled to Italy.<ref>"French Assembly Strips Bidault Of His Parliamentary Immunity", ''New York Times'', July 6, 1962, p. 3</ref>
*After [[Algeria]]'s independence was recognized by [[France]], 20 French Algerians and 75 Algerians were killed in a [[Oran massacre of 1962|massacre]] which took place at Oran, the section of Algiers where most French Algerians lived.<ref>Benjamin Stora, ''Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History'' (Cornell University Press, 2004) p. 105</ref>

==[[July 6]], 1962 (Friday)==
[[File:Gay Byrne (cropped).JPG|thumb|120px|right|Byrne]]
*Irish broadcaster [[Gay Byrne]] presented his first edition of ''[[The Late Late Show (Ireland)|The Late Late Show]]''.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[RTÉ]] |url=http://www.rte.ie/tv/latelate/50thanniversary.html |title=The Late Late Show - 50th Anniversary Special}}</ref> Byrne would go on to present the [[talk show]] for 37 years, making him the longest-running TV talk show host in history.
[[File:Storax Sedan nuke.jpg|120px|thumb|"Digging" the [[Sedan Crater]] in Nevada]]
*The {{convert|320|ft|m|adj=on}} deep [[Sedan Crater]], measuring {{convert|1280|ft|m}} in diameter, was created in a split second in [[Nye County, Nevada]], with an American [[Sedan (nuclear test)|underground nuclear test]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.knpb.org/productions/historicnevada/sedan.asp |archive-date=15 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080715115420/http://www.knpb.org/productions/historicnevada/sedan.asp |title=Sedan Crater |website=Historic Nevada}}</ref> The fallout exposed 13 million Americans to radiation; regular monthly tours are now given of the crater, which ceased being radioactive after less than a year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allaroundnevada.com/sedan-crater/ |title=Sedan Crater |website=All Around Nevada}}</ref>
*[[Martin Marietta]] presented its "piggyback plan" for flight testing the malfunction detection system (MDS) for the [[Titan II GLV|Gemini launch vehicle]]. The plan required installing the detection system in engines on six Titan II flights to demonstrate its reliability.<ref name="Grimwood 2"/>
*'''Died:'''
**[[Archduke Joseph August of Austria]], 89, a ''[[List of Austrian field marshals|Feldmarschall]]'' (field marshal) of the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] and for a short period [[List of heads of state of Hungary|head of state]] of [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]]<ref>{{cite news|title='Perfect' Archduke Joseph diamond sells for $21m|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20315424|access-date=17 November 2012|newspaper=BBC News|date=13 November 2012}}</ref>
**[[Roger Degueldre]], 37, former French Army officer who rebelled to form the OAS Delta Commandos, was executed by a firing squad<ref>{{cite book |first=George |last=Rosie |title=The Directory of International Terrorism |via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p9gZAQAAIAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=[[Paragon House]] |isbn=978-0-913729-29-8 |page=97}}</ref>
**[[William Faulkner]], 64, American novelist and 1950 Nobel laureate<ref>{{cite book |author=United States Military Academy. Library |title=The William Faulkner Collection at West Point and the Faulkner Concordances |via=Google Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_sdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 |year=1974 |publisher=[[United States Military Academy]] |page=1}}</ref>

==[[July 7]], 1962 (Saturday)==
*All 94 people aboard [[Alitalia Flight 771]] were killed when the airliner crashed into a hill about {{convert|84|km|mi}} north-east of [[Mumbai]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Jetliner Vanishes, 94 Aboard |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 7, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*In Burma, the government of General [[Ne Win]] forcibly broke up a demonstration at [[Yangon University|Rangoon University]], killing 15 students and wounding 27.<ref>{{cite news |title=15 Students Killed During Burma Riots |newspaper=[[Toledo Blade]] |date=July 9, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*A [[Soviet Air Force]] pilot flying a [[Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-152]] set a new airspeed record of {{convert|1666|mph|kph}}.

==[[July 8]], 1962 (Sunday)==
*In the most important symbolic gesture of post-war French-German unity, President [[Charles de Gaulle]] of France and Chancellor [[Konrad Adenauer]] of West Germany, both devout Catholics, attended mass at the [[Reims Cathedral]] and prayed together. The Cathedral was where the Emperor common to both nations, Carolus Magnus ([[Charlemagne]] in France and [[Karl der Große]] in Germany)— had been baptized at Reims.<ref>"Old Foes Parade In Reims", ''Ottawa Citizen'', July 9, 1962, p. 1; William Kidd and Brian Murdoch, ''Memory and Memorials: The Commemorative Century'' (Ashgate Publishing, 2004) p. 266</ref>
*The [[1962 French Grand Prix]] was held at Rouen-Les-Essarts and won by [[Dan Gurney]] of the United States.<ref>"Grand Prix Win to U.S. Driver", ''The Age'' (Melbourne), July 10, 1962, p. 10</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Joan Osborne]], American singer-songwriter; in [[Anchorage, Kentucky]]

==[[July 9]], 1962 (Monday)==
*In the [[Starfish Prime]] test, the United States exploded a 1.4 megaton hydrogen bomb in outer space, sending the warhead on a Titan missile to an altitude of {{convert|248|mi}} over [[Johnston Island]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Goodchild |title=Edward Teller, the Real Dr. Strangelove |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |year=2004 |page=300}}</ref> The first two attempts at exploding a nuclear missile above the Earth had failed. The flash was visible in Hawaii, {{convert|750|mi}} away, and scientists discovered the destructive effects of the first major manmade [[electromagnetic pulse]] (EMP), as a surge of electrons burned out streetlights, blew fuses, and disrupted communications.<ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. Fires H-Bomb In Sky |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 9, 1962 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. Explodes Warhead 200 Miles Above Earth |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=July 9, 1962 |page=1}}</ref> Increasing radiation in some places one hundredfold, the EMP damaged at least ten orbiting satellites beyond repair.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Ann Garrison |last1=Darrin |first2=Beth Laura |last2=O'Leary |title=Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage |publisher=[[CRC Press]] |year=2009 |page=536}}</ref>
*[[NASA]] scientists concluded that the layer of haze reported by [[astronaut]]s [[John Glenn]] and [[Scott Carpenter]] was a phenomenon called "[[airglow]]". Using a [[photometer]] on his mission in May, Carpenter was able to measure the layer. Airglow accounts for much of the illumination in the night sky.<ref name="Grimwood"/>
*American artist [[Andy Warhol]] first presented his ''[[Campbell's Soup Cans]]'' at the [[Ferus Gallery]] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.warhola.com/biography.html |title=The Andy Warhol Family Album |website=warhola.com}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Georges Bataille]], 64, French philosopher and writer; of [[arteriosclerosis]]<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Michel Surya |last=Surya |first=Michel |title=Georges Bataille: An Intellectual Biography |year=2002 |page=474}}</ref>

==[[July 10]], 1962 (Tuesday)==
[[File:Telstar 1 replica.jpg|130px|thumb|Telstar]]
*[[AT&T]]'s [[Telstar]], the world's first commercial [[communications satellite]], was launched into orbit from [[Cape Canaveral]] at 3:35&nbsp;a.m. local time, and activated that night.<ref>{{cite news |title=TV Relay Satellite Streaks Into Orbit |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 10, 1962 |page=1}}</ref> The first image transmitted between continents was a black-and-white photo of the American flag<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=71XFh8zZwT8C&dat=19620711&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |title=The Story Sent From Satellite ...And This Picture, Too |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 11, 1962 |page=1 |via=Google News}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Vaclav |last=Smil |author-link=Vaclav Smil |title=Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations And Their Consequences |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2006 |page=310}}</ref> sent from the U.S. transmitter at [[Andover, Maine]], to [[Pleumeur-Bodou]] in France.<ref name=Bray>{{cite book |first=John |last=Bray |author-link=John Bray (communications engineer) |title=Innovation and the Communications Revolution: From the Victorian Pioneers to Broadband Internet |publisher=IET |year=2002 |pages=213–214}}</ref>
*The [[All-Channel Receiver Act|All-Channel Television Receiver Bill]] was signed into law, requiring that all televisions made in the United States to be able to receive both [[VHF]] signals (channels 2 to 13 on 30 to 300&nbsp;MHz) and [[UHF]] (channels 14 to 83, on frequencies between 470 and 896&nbsp;MHz). The change encouraged the opening of hundreds of new U.S. television stations.<ref>{{cite book |first=Max D. |last=Paglin |title=The Communications Act: A Legislative History of the Major Amendments, 1934–1996 |publisher=Pike & Fischer |year=1999 |page=190}}</ref>
*One of the spans in the [[King Street Bridge (Melbourne)|Kings Bridge]] in [[Melbourne]], Australia, collapsed after a {{convert|45|t|adj=on}} vehicle passed over it, only 15 months after the multi-lane highway bridge's opening on April 12, 1961. The collapse occurred immediately after the driver of the vehicle had passed over the span, and nobody was hurt.<ref>{{cite news |title=£4m Kings Bridge Closed Indefinitely |newspaper=[[The Age]] |location=[[Melbourne]] |date=July 11, 1962 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Björn |last=Åkesson |title=Understanding Bridge Collapses |publisher=CRC Press |year=2008 |page=132}}</ref>
*[[Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha|Francisco Brochado de Rocha]] was approved as the new [[Prime Minister of Brazil]] by a 215–58 vote of Parliament.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Premier OK'd, Brazil Crisis Ends |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 10, 1962 |page=4A}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Christopher Martin (rapper)|Christopher Martin]], formerly known as Play, comedian, actor and rapper of the hip-hop duo [[Kid 'n Play]]; in [[Queens]]<ref>{{cite web| last= Martin| first= Christopher "Play"| url= http://halftimeonline.net/portfolio/play-kid-n-play/| title= Play: Hip-Hop Icon (interview)| website= halftimeonline.net| date= July 10, 2004| access-date= October 18, 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181010093953/http://halftimeonline.net/portfolio/play-kid-n-play/| archive-date= October 10, 2018| url-status= dead}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[Tommy Milton]], 68, American race car driver and first to win the Indianapolis 500 twice (in 1921 and 1923 despite being blind in one eye), [[Multiple gunshot suicide|shot himself twice]] after making his own funeral arrangements.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tommy Milton Dies; 1st Two-Time '500' Winner |newspaper=[[Indianapolis Star]] |date=July 11, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>

==[[July 11]], 1962 (Wednesday)==
*NASA officials decided to proceed with [[Project Apollo]], the crewed [[lunar exploration]] program, to using [[lunar orbit rendezvous]] (LOR) as the prime mission mode, rather than [[direct ascent]] or [[earth orbit rendezvous]]. The decision enabled immediate planning for the next phase of American [[space exploration]] to proceed.<ref name="Grimwood"/>
*The first person to swim across the [[English Channel]] underwater, without surfacing, arrived in [[Sandwich Bay, Kent]], England, 18 hours after departing from [[Calais]], France. Fred Baldasare wore scuba gear and was assisted by a guiding ship and the use of oxygen tanks.<ref>{{cite news |title=Floridian Swims Channel |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 11, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Pauline McLynn]], Irish comedian and TV actress; in [[Sligo]], [[County Sligo]]{{cn|date=November 2023}}
*'''Died:''' [[Owen D. Young]], 87, American businessman who founded [[Radio Corporation of America]] (RCA) and co-founded the [[National Broadcasting Company]] (NBC)<ref>{{cite news |title=Owen D. Young, 87, Industrialist, Dies. Owen D. Young, 87, Ex-G.E. Head, Dies |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9904E3DB1339E43BBC4A52DFB1668389679EDE |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=July 12, 1962}}</ref>

==[[July 12]], 1962 (Thursday)==
*The [[Rolling Stones]] made their debut at London's [[Marquee Club]], Number 165 Oxford Street, opening for the first time under that name, for [[Long John Baldry]]. [[Mick Jagger]], [[Brian Jones]], [[Keith Richards]], [[Ian Stewart (musician)|Ian Stewart]], [[Dick Taylor]] and [[Tony Chapman]] had played together for the group [[Blues Incorporated]] before creating a new name inspired by the [[Muddy Waters]] 1950 single "[[Rollin' Stone (Muddy Waters song)|Rollin' Stone]]".<ref>{{cite book |first1=Vladimir |last1=Bogdanov |display-authors=etal |title=All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation]] |year=2003 |page=476}}</ref> The day before the concert, an ad in the July 11, 1962, edition of ''Jazz News'', a London weekly jazz paper, had shown the drummer to be [[Mick Avory]], who later played for [[The Kinks]], rather than Chapman. Avory himself, however, would say in an interview that he did not play in the event.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eddybonte.be/flags/MickAvoryFootnote.cfm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140616082314/http://www.eddybonte.be/flags/MickAvoryFootnote.cfm |archive-date=16 June 2014 |title=Interview with 'Kink' Mick Avory |first=Eddy |last=Bonte}}</ref>
*The first telephone signals carried by satellite were made by engineers between [[Goonhilly]] in the UK and [[Andover, Maine]], in the U.S.<ref name=Bray/>
*Representatives of Gemini Project Office (GPO) presented a list of minimum basic maneuvers of the Agena targeting and docking at a conference with the U.S. Air Force Space System Division, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Lockheed on coordination of the [[Atlas-Agena]] program for a linkup of vehicles in orbit above the Earth. The parties agreed to begin work immediately after the last [[Project Mercury]] flight.<ref name="Grimwood 2"/>
*'''Born:''' [[Julio César Chávez]], Mexican boxer, WBC champion at three levels (super featherweight, lightweight, light welterweight and welterweight) between 1984 and 1996; in [[Ciudad Obregón]]
*'''Died:''' [[James T. Blair, Jr.]], 60, former Governor of Missouri (1957–1961); along with his wife, from accidental [[carbon monoxide poisoning]] at his home, near [[Jefferson City, Missouri]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-Governor of Missouri Found Dead |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 12, 1962 |page=2}}</ref>

==[[July 13]], 1962 (Friday)==
*With his popularity declining, British Prime Minister [[Harold Macmillan]] fired seven senior members of his cabinet, including Chancellor of the Exchequer [[Selwyn Lloyd]], the [[Lord Chancellor]], the Ministers of Defence and Education, and the Secretary of State for Scotland. The move was unprecedented in United Kingdom history, and was followed by the firing of nine junior ministers the following Monday.<ref>{{cite news |title=Changes in the Cabinet - Mr Selwyn Lloyd Replaced |newspaper=[[Glasgow Herald]] |date=July 14, 1962 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=U.K. Cabinet Sensation- 7 lose jobs in purge |newspaper=[[Sydney Sun-Herald]] |date=July 15, 1962 |page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Mac the Knife...And How He Must Answer To A Victim |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 16, 1962 |page=1}}</ref> Liberal MP [[Jeremy Thorpe]] would quip, "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life."<ref>{{cite book |first=Bernard |last=Wasserstein |author-link=Bernard Wasserstein |title=Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2007 |page=536}}</ref> The British press would dub the event Macmillan's "[[Night of the Long Knives (1962)|Night of the Long Knives]]".<ref>{{cite book |first1=Samuel |last1=Berlinski |display-authors=etal |title=Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2012 |page=95}}</ref>
*International telephone calls, via satellite, were inaugurated by [[AT&T]], as company president Eugene McNeely placed a call to the French [[Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones]], [[Jacques Marette]]. On Telstar's next orbit, McNeely spoke with Sir Ronald German, the British [[General Post Office]] Director-General.<ref name=Lafleur>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://claudelafleur.qc.ca/Spacecrafts-1962.html |title=Spacecrafts &#91;sic&#93; Launched in 1962 |encyclopedia=Spacecraft Encyclopedia |first=Claude |last=LeFleur}}</ref>
*Tests of the [[Mercury spacesuit|Mercury pressure suit]] were conducted with a human subject, who wore a modified [[North American XB-70 Valkyrie|B-70 (Valkyrie)]] harness, which appeared to have advantages over the existing Mercury harness.<ref name="Grimwood"/>
*[[U Thant]], [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]], arrived in [[Dublin]], and paid tribute to Irish soldiers who fought in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]].
*Burmese leader [[Ne Win]] left the country for a trip to [[Austria]], [[Switzerland]] and the [[United Kingdom]], "for a medical check up".<ref>News items in ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''The Nation'' of July 14, 1962</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Tom Kenny]], American voice actor best known as the voice of [[SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob]] in over 300 episodes of the long-running cartoon ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''; in [[Syracuse, New York]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.backstage.com/interview/tom-kenny-finds-his-voice-as-spongebob-squarepants/|title=Tom Kenny Finds his Voice as SpongeBob SquarePants|website=backstage.com|access-date=June 22, 2017|archive-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911025235/https://www.backstage.com/interview/tom-kenny-finds-his-voice-as-spongebob-squarepants/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==[[July 14]], 1962 (Saturday)==
*A 1958 Pakistan law, banning all political parties, was repealed by a National Assembly resolution, amending the Constitution of 1962. The only requirement was that a party could not prejudice Islamic ideology or the stability or integrity of Pakistan, and could not receive any aid from a foreign nation.<ref>''Party, Government and Freedom in the Muslim World'' (Brill Archive, 1968) p. 21</ref>
*In the third match of the [[rugby league]] Test series between Australia and Great Britain, held at [[Sydney Cricket Ground]], a controversial last-minute Australian try and the subsequent conversion resulted in an 18–17 win for Australia.<ref>"Last-minute victory to Aust. in exciting R.L. test- Inquiry held", ''Sydney Sun-Herald'', July 15, 1962, p. 3</ref>
*The [[Miss Universe 1962]] beauty pageant took place at [[Miami Beach, Florida]], and was won by [[Norma Nolan]] of Argentina.<ref>"Miss Argentina Most Beautiful In World", ''Miami News'', July 15, 1962, p. 1</ref>
*[[Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor|Henry Brooke]] became the new UK [[Home Secretary]] in Harold Macmillan's reshuffled cabinet.

==[[July 15]], 1962 (Sunday)==
*''[[The Washington Post]]'' broke the story of [[thalidomide]] tablets that had been distributed in the United States, in a story by [[Morton Mintz]] under the headline "Heroine of FDA Keeps Bad Drug Off Market". As a result of the publicity, more than 2.5&nbsp;million thalidomide pills, which had been distributed to physicians by the Richardson-Merrell pharmaceutical company pending approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, were recalled. Although thousands of babies were born with defects in Europe, the FDA identified only 17 known cases in the United States.<ref>{{cite book |first=Philip J. |last=Hilts |author-link=Philip J. Hilts |title=Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation |publisher=[[UNC Press Books]] |year=2004 |pages=157–158}}</ref>
*Six animals (two monkeys and four hamsters) died from radiation poisoning, after having been sent into space by NASA a day earlier in the first test of whether astronauts could safely endure prolonged exposure to [[cosmic rays]]. The animals had been inside a space capsule that had been kept at an altitude of {{convert|131,000|ft}} by a balloon.<ref>{{cite news |title=Balloon Animals Die Testing Cosmic Rays |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 16, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*[[Jacques Anquetil]] won the [[1962 Tour de France|Tour de France]] for the third time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingrevealed.com/timeline/Race%20Snippets/TdF/TdF1962.htm |title=49th Tour de France 1962}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Glen Edward Rogers]], American serial killer who was suspected of stabbing and strangling an elderly man and four women in five separate states between 1993 and 1995; in [[Hamilton, Ohio]]<ref name="DOC">{{cite web|url=http://www.dc.state.fl.us/offenderSearch/detail.aspx?Page=Detail&DCNumber=124400&TypeSearch=AI|title=Inmate Population Information Detail – Glen Edward Rogers|publisher=[[Florida Department of Corrections]]|access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref>

==[[July 16]], 1962 (Monday)==
*French explorer [[Michel Siffre]] began a [[long-term experiment]] of [[chronobiology]], the perception of the passage of time in the absence of information, staying underground in a cave for two months after entering. While inside, he used a one-way field telephone to signal to researchers when he was going to sleep, when he was getting up, and how much time had passed between events during his waking hours. He was brought back out 60 days later on September 14, 1962. According to his diary, he thought only 35 days had passed and that the date was August 20.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/30/foer.php |title=Caveman: An Interview with Michel Siffre |first1=Joshua |last1=Foer |author1-link=Joshua Foer |first2=Michel |last2=Siffre |author2-link=Michel Siffre |magazine=The Underground |date=Summer 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Stefan |last=Klein |author-link=Stefan Klein |title=The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |year=2009 |pages=2–8}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/a/a_11/a_11_p/a_11_p_hor/a_11_p_hor.html |title=Chronobiology |publisher=[[Canadian Institute of Health Research]]}}</ref>
*[[Prime Minister of Liechtenstein]] [[Alexander Frick]] resigns and is succeeded by [[Gerard Batliner]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 July 1962 |title=Bericht über die öffentliche Landtagssitzung vom 16 Juli 1962 |url=https://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/viewer/image/000476564_1962/737/LOG_0111/ |access-date=4 February 2025 |work=[[Liechtensteiner Volksblatt]] |pages=1 |language=de}}</ref>

==[[July 17]], 1962 (Tuesday)==
*The U.S. Senate voted 52–48 against further consideration of President Kennedy's proposed plan for [[Medicare (United States)|Medicare]], government-subsidized health care for persons drawing social security benefits.<ref>{{cite news |title=Senate Vote Kills Medicare 52-48 |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 17, 1962 |page=1}}</ref> Two liberal U.S. Senators had switched sides, preventing a 50–50 tie that would have been broken in favor of Medicare by Vice-President Johnson. As President, Johnson would sign Medicare into law effective July 30, 1965.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Michael |last1=Meagher |first2=Larry D. |last2=Gragg |title=John F. Kennedy: A Biography |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |year=2011 |page=118}}</ref>
*Major [[Robert M. White]] (USAF) piloted a [[North American X-15]] to a record altitude of {{convert|314750|ft|mi km}},<ref>{{cite news |title=X-15 Zooms 58 Miles Up- White's An Astronaut |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 17, 1962 |page=1}}</ref> narrowly missing the 100 kilometer altitude [[Kármán line]] that defines [[outer space]], but passing the 50-mile altitude mark that NASA used to define the threshold of space. The record of {{convert|67|mi}} would be set by [[Joseph A. Walker]] on [[July 1963|July 19, 1963]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Tim |last=Furniss |title=A History of Space Exploration: And Its Future |publisher=[[Globe Pequot]] |year=2003 |page=40}}</ref>
*The [[Eritrean Liberation Front]] staged its first major attack in seeking to separate Eritrea from Ethiopia, by throwing a hand grenade at a reviewing stand that included General Abiy Abebe (Emperor Haile Selassie's representative), Eritrean provincial executive Asfaha Woldemikael, and Hamid Ferej, leader of the Eritrean provincial assembly.<ref>{{cite book |first=Tekeste |last=Negash |title=Eritrea and Ethiopia: The Federal Experience |publisher=[[Nordic Africa Institute]] |year=1997 |page=151}}</ref>
*Four years after the [[USS Nautilus (SSN-571)|USS ''Nautilus'']] had become the first submarine to reach the geographic [[North Pole]], the Soviet Union reached the Pole with a sub for the first time, with the submarine K-3 (later renamed the ''[[Leninsky Komsomol]]'').<ref>{{cite book |first1=Norman |last1=Polmar |author1-link=Norman Polmar |first2=Jurrien |last2=Noot |title=Submarines of the Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718-1990 |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |year=1991 |page=170}}</ref> 
*The final [[Nuclear testing|atmospheric nuclear test by the United States]] was made, a test shot [[Little Feller I]] (of a "Small Boy" weapon).<ref>{{cite book |first=Jennifer A. |last=Sandlin |title=Handbook of Public Pedagogy: Education and Learning Beyond Schooling |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |year=2010 |page=268}}</ref>

==[[July 18]], 1962 (Wednesday)==
*[[Manuel Prado Ugarteche]], the 73-year-old [[President of Peru]], was arrested during a coup d'etat after Peruvian Army officers used a Sherman tank to batter down the gates of the presidential palace in [[Lima]]. Prado was replaced by a [[military junta]] led by General [[Ricardo Pérez Godoy]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Military Ousts Prado In Peru |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 18, 1962 |page=1}}</ref> The election results of [[June 1962|June 10]] were annulled.<ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen G. |last=Rabe |author-link=Stephen G. Rabe |title=The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America |publisher=[[UNC Press Books]] |year=1999 |isbn=080784764X |page=120}}</ref>
*The largest space vehicle, up to that time, began orbiting the Earth, after the United States launched the communications satellite "Big Shot". After going aloft, the silvery balloon was inflated to its full size as a sphere with a diameter of {{convert|135|ft}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=13-Story Balloon Fired 950 Miles Above Cape |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 18, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*Unpopular and unable to implement economic reforms, [[Ali Amini]] resigned as [[Prime Minister of Iran]]. He would be replaced by [[Asadollah Alam]].<ref>{{cite book |first=James A. |last=Bill |title=The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=1989 |page=146}}</ref>
*The [[Minnesota Twins]] became the first Major League Baseball team to hit two [[Grand slam (baseball)|grand slams]] in the same inning of a game, as [[Bob Allison]] and [[Harmon Killebrew]] drove in eight runs in the first inning of a 14–3 win over the [[Cleveland Indians]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Allison, Killebrew Hit Record 'Slams' |newspaper=Pittsburgh Press |date=July 19, 1962 |page=37}}</ref> In 50 years, the feat has been accomplished seven more times since then, most recently on September 11, 2015, in the eighth inning of a 14 to 8 win by the Baltimore Orioles over the Kansas City Royals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baseballroundtable.com/two-grand-slams-in-an-inning-almost-always-a-win/ |title=Two Grand Slams in an Inning – Almost Always A Win |website=Baseball Roundtable}}</ref> On April 23, 1999, both of the St. Louis Cardinals' grand slams in the third inning were made by the same batter, [[Fernando Tatis]].<ref>[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rb_grsl2.shtml Baseball-Almanac.com]</ref>
*[[1962 Pacific typhoon season|Typhoon Kate]], which would kill at least 110 people in Taiwan and in Communist China, formed a short distance from northern Luzon in the Philippines.
*'''Born:''' [[Abu Sabaya]], Philippine leader of rebel group [[Abu Sayyaf]]; as Aldam Tilao in [[Isabela, Basilan]] (killed, 2002)
*'''Died:''' [[Eugene Houdry]], 70, French chemical engineer who developed high octane gasoline and the [[catalytic converter]]

==[[July 19]], 1962 (Thursday)==
*The first successful intercept of one missile by another took place at [[Kwajalein Island]], with a Zeus missile passing within {{convert|2|km}} of an incoming Atlas missile, close enough for a nuclear warhead to disable an enemy weapon.<ref>{{cite book |first=John A. |last=Hamilton |title=Blazing Skies: Air Defense Artillery on Fort Bliss, Texas, 1940-2009 |publisher=[[Government Printing Office]] |year=2009 |page=46}}</ref>
*Gemini Project Office and [[North American Aviation]] agreed on guidelines for the design of the advanced paraglider trainer, the system to be [[Rogallo wing#NASA research|used with the Gemini spacecraft]]. The most important of these guidelines was redundancy for all critical operations.<ref name="Grimwood 2"/>

==[[July 20]], 1962 (Friday)==
*[[Tou Samouth]], Communist leader of the Khmer People's Revolutionary Party in [[Cambodia]], disappeared and was presumed to have been murdered. His successor, Saloth Sar, would go on to lead the [[Communist Party of Kampuchea]] as [[Pol Pot]], and then exact revenge on former government employees.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ben Kiernan|title=How Pol Pot Came to Power|publisher=Verso|year=2008|ISBN=9780300148442|page=197}}</ref>
*Executive Order 11307 prohibited unlicensed U.S. citizens (and people under U.S. jurisdiction) from possessing or holding an interest in gold coins from outside the United States, unless the coins were of "exceptional numismatic value".<ref>{{cite book |first=David L |last=Ganz |title=The Essential Guide to Investing in Precious Metals: How to Begin, Build and Maintain a Properly Diversified Portfolio |publisher=[[Krause Publications]] |year=2011 |pages=62–63}}</ref>
*The world's first regular passenger hovercraft service was introduced, as the VA-3 began the {{convert|20|mi|adj=on}} run between [[Rhyl]] (in Wales) and [[Wallasey]] (in England).<ref>{{cite news |title=The Hovercraft Pioneers- First Paying Passengers Take the Air To-day |newspaper=[[Glasgow Herald]] |date=July 20, 1962 |page=4}}</ref>
*[[France]] and [[Tunisia]] reestablished [[diplomatic relations]], a year after breaking ties following the [[Bizerte crisis]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Paris and Tunis Resuming Ties; End Rift That Started After '61 Bizerte Fight |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 21, 1962}}</ref>
*NASA Administrator [[James E. Webb]] announced that [[Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center|a new mission control center]] would be established at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston. Project Mercury flights were controlled from [[Mercury Control Center|the center]] at Cape Canaveral, but these facilities were inadequate for the more complex missions envisioned for the Gemini and [[Apollo program]]s. [[Philco Corporation]] was awarded the contract for a design concept for the flight information and control functions of the new center, and the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] would supervise construction of this center as it had all major facilities at MSC. Total cost was estimated at $30 million for the center, to open in 1964 for Gemini [[space rendezvous]] flights.<ref name="Grimwood 2"/>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Carlos Alazraqui]], American voice actor and stand-up comedian; in [[Yonkers, New York]]
**[[Jeong Han Kim]], South Korean mathematician; in [[Seoul]]

==[[July 21]], 1962 (Saturday)==
*The [[United Arab Republic]] (Egypt) successfully fired four missiles which, President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] said, could strike any target "just south of [[Beirut]]", a reference to neighboring [[Israel]]. Nasser said that the ''Nakid El Kaher'' (Conqueror) missile had a range of {{convert|380|mi}}, which could reach all of Israel, as well as cities in Syria and Jordan, and that the ''El Zahir'' (Victory) missile had a range of {{convert|222|mi}}, including Tel Aviv.<ref>{{cite news |title=Egypt Fires 4 Rockets in Test Series- Nasser Boasts Missiles Could Hit Targets in Israel |newspaper=Youngstown Vindicator |location=Youngstown, Ohio |date=July 21, 1962 |page=2}}</ref> The missiles came as a surprise to Israel's intelligence service, the [[Mossad]]. In August, Mossad chief [[Isser Harel]] would report to Prime Minister [[David Ben-Gurion]] that German scientists were assisting in the development of 900 more missiles capable of carrying chemical and biological weapons and would organize [[Operation Damocles]] to target the scientists on the project.<ref>{{cite book |first=Avery |last=Plaw |title=Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill? |publisher=[[Ashgate Publishing]] |year=2008 |page=41}}</ref>
*'''Died:''' [[G. M. Trevelyan]], 86, British historian

==[[July 22]], 1962 (Sunday)==
*The [[Mariner 1]] spacecraft flew erratically several minutes after launch from the U.S. and had to be destroyed after less than five minutes, at a cost of $4,000,000 for the satellite and $8,000,000 for the rocket.<ref>"Venus Shot Veers, Destroyed", ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', July 23, 1962, p. 1</ref> The $12 million dollar loss was later traced<ref>"So! It Was Man Who Goofed In Venus Probe", ''Deseret News'' (Salt Lake City), July 28, 1962, p. 1</ref> to the omission of an [[overbar]] in the handwritten text from which the computer programming for the rocket guidance system was drawn, which should have been written as :<math>\bar{\dot{R}_n}</math> being rendered as :<math>{\dot{R}_n}</math>; thus, there was no [[smooth function]] to prevent over-correction of minor variations of data on rocket velocity.<ref>[http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/8.75.html#subj1 "Mariner I -- no holds BARred"], by Peter G. Neumann, ''The Risks Digest'', 30 May 1989; Vincenzo De Florio, ''Application-Layer Fault-Tolerance Protocols'' (Idea Group Inc., 2009) p. 32; Peter G. Neumann, ''Computer-Related Risks'' (Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994)</ref>
*On [[Canadian Pacific Flight 301]], 27 of the 40 people were killed after the four-engine plane had a failure of one engine shortly after takeoff on departure from [[Honolulu]]. The airliner crashed during an emergency landing, with only 13 survivors.<ref>Civil Aviation Authority 1974, p. 18/62; "Airliner Crashes, 25 Killed", ''Miami News'', July 23, 1962, p. 1</ref>
*'''Born:''' 
**[[Steve Albini]], American musician, audio engineer, and music journalist; in [[Pasadena, California]] (died from a heart attack, 2024)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095400251|title=Steve Albini}}</ref>
**[[Ilyasah Shabazz]], third daughter of [[Malcolm X]] and [[Betty Shabazz]]; in [[New York City]]<ref name=NJEA>{{cite web |url=http://njeaconvention.org/speakers/ilyasah-shabazz/ |title=Ilyasah Shabazz |date=November 2017 |publisher=New Jersey Education Association |access-date=November 18, 2017 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033455/http://njeaconvention.org/speakers/ilyasah-shabazz/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==[[July 23]], 1962 (Monday)==
*While in [[Geneva]], [[W. Averell Harriman]] of the U.S. met with North Vietnam's Foreign Minister, [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam|Ung Văn Khiêm]] in an unsuccessful attempt to talk about a similar neutrality agreement in Vietnam. Decades after the end of the Vietnam War, sources in Hanoi would reveal that the North Vietnamese Politburo had approved the pursuit of discussions, but that Khiem had not been informed of the Politburo decision that might have averted a protracted war. American and North Vietnamese diplomats would not meet again for six years.<ref>Robert S. McNamara, et al., ''Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy'' (PublicAffairs, 2000) pp. 125–127</ref>
*[[Telstar]] relayed the first live trans-[[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]] [[television]] signal, with two 20-minute programs. The first was a set of U.S. TV shows (President Kennedy's news conference, 90 seconds of the Phillies-Cubs baseball game, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir) to Eurovision (2:00&nbsp;p.m. New York, 8:00&nbsp;p.m. London). At 4:58&nbsp;p.m., New York Time, live transmission of European broadcasting was shown on all three American networks, beginning with a live picture of the clock at London's [[Big Ben]] approaching 11:00&nbsp;p.m.<ref name=Lafleur/><ref>"First Live European TV Due Via Telstar Today", ''Miami News'', July 23, 1962, p. 1; "What America Saw 'Live' From Europe", ''Miami News'', July 24, 1962, p9C</ref>
*A railway crash killed 36 people and injured 100, when a train between [[Paris]] and [[Marseilles]] derailed while crossing a viaduct near [[Dijon]]. Most of the dead were vacationers traveling to the [[French Riviera]], and had been on a passenger car that plunged into a ravine.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,5/articleid,0087_01_1962_0163_0005_16964362/|title=Il Parigi-Marsiglia deraglia su un viadotto-Una carrozza precipita: 36 morti, 1000 feriti|date=July 24, 1962|work=[[La Stampa]]}}</ref>
*The [[International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos]] was signed in [[Geneva]].<ref>"14 Nations Sign Pact Of Peace For Laos", ''Miami News'', July 23, 1962, p10A</ref> Under the agreement, all foreign military personnel were to withdraw within 75 days; the last Americans, advisers to the U.S. Special Forces, would leave by October 6.<ref>Shelby L. Stanton, ''Special Forces at War: An Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957-1975'' (Zenith Imprint, 2008) p. 23</ref>
*In the first press conference broadcast by satellite, U.S. [[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] blamed the Soviet Union for the resumption of nuclear testing and the inflexibility about the [[Berlin Crisis of 1961|Berlin crisis]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,0087_01_1962_0163_0001_16964804/|title=Kennedy illustra al vecchio mondo i più gravi problemi internazionali|date=July 24, 1962|work=[[La Stampa]]}}</ref>
*The Saskatoon agreement brought an end to the [[Saskatchewan doctors' strike]].<ref>Dick Spencer, ''Singing the Blues: The Conservatives in Saskatchewan'' (CPRC Press, Jan 30, 2007) p. 124</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Eriq La Salle]], African-American TV actor; in [[Hartford]], [[Connecticut]]
*'''Died:''' 
**[[Henry Dworshak]], 67, U.S. Senator from Idaho since 1949. Dworshak was the fourth conservative Republican U.S. Senator to die in less than a year.<ref>"Senator Dworshak Dies At 67", ''Miami News'', July 24, 1962, p5A</ref>
**[[Victor Moore]], 86, American stage and film actor best known for ''[[It Happened on 5th Avenue]]''

==[[July 24]], 1962 (Tuesday)==
*In [[Geneva]], after the ending of the [[International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos|conference about Laos]], five Ministers for Foreign Affairs (the American [[Dean Rusk]], the English [[Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home]], the Canadian [[Howard Charles Green]], the Soviet [[Andrej Gromyko]] and the Indian [[V. K. Krishna Menon|Krishna Menon]]) had a new meeting about the [[disarmament]] and the Berlin crisis. Notwithstanding the cordial atmosphere, no progress was obtained about the two questions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,avanzata/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,0087_01_1962_0164_0001_16964389/|title=Ripresi a Ginevra i negoziati sul disarmo|date=July 25, 1962|work=[[La Stampa]]}}</ref>
*The first successful implantation of a [[Artificial heart valve#Tissue (biological) valves|biological heart valve]] was performed by Dr. [[Donald Ross (surgeon)|Donald Nixon Ross]] in London, with a subcoronary implantation of an aortic allograft.<ref>Jan Dominik and Pavel Zacek, ''Heart Valve Surgery: An Illustrated Guide'' (Springer, 2008)p16</ref>
*The government of Italy's Prime Minister [[Fanfani IV Cabinet|Amintore Fanfani]] enacted a law providing for free textbooks for primary school students.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinquantamila.it/storyTellerGiorno.php?day=24&month=7&year=1962|title=Le notizie del 24 luglio 1962}}</ref>
*'''Died:'''  
**[[Margaret Buckley]], 83, Irish Republican leader who served as [[President of Sinn Féin]], Ireland's ruling political party, from 1937 to 1950
**[[Victor Bourgeois]], 64, Belgian modernist architect

==[[July 25]], 1962 (Wednesday)==
*Three weeks after [[Algeria]] became independent, civil war broke out within the [[National Liberation Front (Algeria)|FLN]] between the [[Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic]] (GPRA) of [[Ahmed Ben Bella]] and the [[Oujda Group|Oujda group]] of [[Houari Boumédiène|Boumédiène]]. Ben Bella's troops occupied [[Annaba|Bona]] and [[Constantine, Algeria|Constantine]], with bloodshed, while the GPRA held control only of the [[Algiers]] region.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,0087_01_1962_0165_0001_16964702/ |title=Ben Bella occupa Bona e Costantina - I ministri abbandonano Ben Khedda ad Algeri. |trans-title=Ben Bella occupies Bona and Constantine - Ministers abandon Ben Khedda in Algiers. |date=July 27, 1962 |newspaper=[[La Stampa]] |language=it}}</ref>
*"[[Aid to Families with Dependent Children]]" (AFDC) was created with the passage of the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962 to the U.S. Social Security Act, increasing the number of people receiving federal public assistance.<ref>{{cite book |first=Steven G. |last=Livingston |title=Student's Guide To Landmark Congressional Laws on Social Security and Welfare |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |year=2002 |page=107}}</ref>
*[[Buckingham Palace]], residence of the Queen of the United Kingdom, was opened to the public for the first time with the dedication of the [[Queen's Gallery]], an art museum.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Lynne |last1=Bell |display-authors=etal |title=Queen and Consort: Elizabeth and Philip, 60 Years of Marriage |publisher=[[Dundurn Press Ltd.]] |year=2007 |pages=31–32}}</ref>
*"Skyphone" service, permitting airline passengers to make telephone calls while in flight, was inaugurated. The first call was made from American Airlines Flight 941 en route from New York to Cincinnati, from stewardess Hope Patterson to the [[Associated Press]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Hello, Earth... This Is Jet Stewardess, Miss Patterson |newspaper=Miami News |date=July 26, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*The U.S. had another failure in its [[Operation Dominic]] series of nuclear tests, when a Thor missile exploded on the launch pad at [[Johnston Island]]. Although the 100-kiloton warhead was destroyed without a nuclear blast, the area was contaminated with plutonium, ending plans to routinely launch nuclear-powered space probes.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Paolo |last1=Ulivi |display-authors=etal |title=Lunar Exploration: Human Pioneers and Robotic Surveyors |publisher=Springer |year=2004 |pages=15–16}}</ref>
*The [[United States Army]] formed its first armed helicopter unit, using [[UH-1 Huey]]s.
*'''Born:''' [[Doug Drabek]], American [[Major League Baseball]] pitcher from 1986 to 1998, and 1990 [[Cy Young Award]] winner; in [[Victoria, Texas]]
*'''Died:'''
**[[Thibaudeau Rinfret]], 83, [[Chief Justice of Canada]] from 1944 to 1954
**[[Nelle Wilson Reagan]], 79, mother of future U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]]
**[[Christie MacDonald]], 87, Canadian-American actress and singer 

==[[July 26]], 1962 (Thursday)==
*The first nuclear missiles shipped to [[Cuba]] by the Soviet Union were unloaded in at the port of [[Mariel, Cuba|Mariel]]. Their discovery would precipitate the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Norman |last=Polmar |author-link=Norman Polmar |title=Spyplane: The U-2 History Declassified |publisher=[[Zenith Imprint]] |year=2001 |page=183}}</ref>
*The first birth defects in the United States from the drug [[thalidomide]] were detected. The unborn child's mother asked the [[Arizona Supreme Court|Supreme Court of Arizona State]] for an order permitting her to abort her fifth pregnancy. In previous months, she had used the controversial medication, which was banned in the U.S., but had been bought by her husband in London. Her request was rejected.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,0087_01_1962_0165_0001_16964705 |title=Chiede alla corte americana di interrompere la maternità perché ha preso i tranquillanti che deformano i bambini. |trans-title=She asks the American court to stop pregnancy because she took the tranquilizers that deform children. |date=July 27, 1962 |newspaper=La Stampa |language=it}}</ref>
*To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the republic in Egypt, President Nasser declared an end to tuition in the nation's universities.<ref>{{cite book |first=Donald Malcolm |last=Reid |title=Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |page=174}}</ref>
*''[[The French Chef]]'', starring [[Julia Child]], appeared on television for the first time, as a program on the Boston public television station [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Dana |last=Polan |title=Julia Child's The French Chef |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |year=2011 |page=129}}</ref>
*The first phone call by satellite between Italy and the United States took place. Osvaldo Cagnasso, the mayor of [[Alba, Piedmont|Alba]] in Piedmont, called his counterpart, Mayor John Snider in [[Medford, Oregon]]. The mayors of the twinned cities exchanged their greetings, in the call relayed by [[Telstar 1]], for 12 minutes. In the hours that followed, the satellite broadcast another 11 calls from one side of the Atlantic to the other.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,5/articleid,0087_01_1962_0165_0005_16965116 |title=Il telefono cosmico ha unito stanotte Alba e Roma all'America. |trans-title=The cosmic telephone joined Alba and Rome to America tonight. |last=Pansa |first=Giampaolo |author-link=Giampaolo Pansa |volume=96 |issue=165 |date=July 27, 1962 |at=Page 5, columns 1-4 |newspaper=[[La Stampa]] |language=it |access-date=January 31, 2022}}</ref>
*In Algeria, during the split within the GPRA, [[Krim Belkacem|Belkacem Krim]] and [[Mohamed Boudiaf|Boudiaf]] got the [[Kabylie]] to organize the resistance to Ben Bella's army. [[Benyoucef Benkhedda|Benkhedda]] remained in Algiers to cooperate with the opposing faction.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,1568_02_1962_0166_0001_23722655/ |title=Verso un urto in armi tra i due capi algerini? |trans-title=Towards a clash in arms between the two Algerian leaders? |date=July 27, 1962 |newspaper=[[Stampa Sera]] |language=it}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''
**[[Galina Chistyakova]], retired Russian athlete who currently holds the world record in the [[Women's long jump world record progression|long jump]], jumping 7.52 metres on June 11, 1988; in [[Izmail]], [[Ukrainian SSR]], Soviet Union<ref name="sports-reference.com">{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Galina Čisťakovová |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ci/galina-cistakovova-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203011405/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ci/galina-cistakovova-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2016 |access-date=27 October 2020}}</ref>
**[[Sergey Kiriyenko]], [[Prime Minister of Russia]] from March to August 1998; in  [[Sukhumi]], [[Georgian SSR]], Soviet Union
*'''Died:''' 
**[[Matt Cvetic]], 53, American government employee who infiltrated the U.S. Communist Party, then wrote about it in ''[[I Was a Communist for the FBI]]'', died of a heart attack<ref>"Matt Cvetic Dies of Heart Attack", ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner'', July 27, 1962, p. 10</ref>
**[[Raquel Meller]], 74, Spanish singer and actress

==[[July 27]], 1962 (Friday)==
*Inventor David P. Wagner applied for the patent for the first [[pharmaceutical packaging]] designed for [[Compliance (medicine)#Course completion|compliance with dosage directions]], to simplify use of birth control pills on a specific date. Wagner would receive royalties from [[G.D. Searle & Company]] and from [[Ortho Pharmaceutical]], who would use the design for their contraceptives.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Bud |title=Manifesting Medicine |publisher=[[NMSI Trading Ltd]] |year=2004 |pages=107–108}}</ref>
*[[Jess Oliver]] (Oliver Jsesperson) applied for the patent for the [[Ampeg Portaflex|Ampeg B-15 Portaflex]] portable bass amplifier, which would become the most popular bass amplifier in the world for bands. The patent would be granted on May 11, 1965.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Ritchie |last1=Fliegler |first2=Jon F. |last2=Eiche |title=Amps!: The Other Half of Rock 'n' Roll |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation]] |year=1993 |page=37}}</ref>
*[[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] began its project to acquire and restore properties in the small town of [[Nauvoo, Illinois]], where the Mormons had been centered from 1839 to 1844. Within a year, Nauvoo Restoration, Inc., had acquired 30 of the 35 buildings still standing in Nauvoo.<ref>{{cite book |first=Glenn |last=Cuerden |title=Images of America: Nauvoo |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |year=2006 |page=112}}</ref>
*[[Atlas (rocket family)|Atlas]] launch vehicle No. 113-D was inspected at [[Convair]] and accepted for the [[Mercury-Atlas 8|Mercury 8]] orbital mission, scheduled for September 1962 for astronaut [[Wally Schirra]].<ref name="Grimwood"/>
*'''Born:''' [[Mariela Castro Espin]], Cuban sexologist, niece of [[Fidel Castro]]; in [[Havana]]
*'''Died:''' [[Richard Aldington]], 70, English poet and author

==[[July 28]], 1962 (Saturday)==
*A 103–26 vote of delegates to the [[German Football Association]] (DFB) convention at [[Dortmund]] created the ''[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]'', the national league of West Germany's top professional soccer football teams.<ref>{{cite book |first=Ulrich |last=Hesse-Lichtenberger |author-link=Ulrich Hesse |title=Tor! The Story of German Football |publisher=[[WSC Books Limited]] |year=2003 |pages=145–146}}</ref> The ''Bundesliga'' would begin its first season on August 24, 1963, with 16 teams out of 46 applicants.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Wladimir |last1=Andreff |first2=Stefan |last2=Szymański |title=Handbook on the Economics of Sport |publisher=[[Edward Elgar Publishing]] |year=2006}}</ref>
*[[South Korea]]'s President [[Park Chung Hee]] issued the memorandum "The Establishment of a Social Security System" and set about to forcibly implement programs for assistance for the elderly, disabled and unemployed in what was, at that time, a poor nation.<ref>{{cite book |first=Myungsook |last=Woo |title=The Politics Of Social Welfare Policy In South Korea: Growth And Citizenship |publisher=[[University Press of America]] |year=2004 |page=37}}</ref>
*The USSR launched [[Kosmos 7]], the first successful Soviet mission to conduct surveillance photography of the entire United States.<ref>{{cite book |first=Craig |last=Nelson |title=Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |year=2010}}</ref>
*A railway crash killed 19 people and injured 116 at [[Steelton, Pennsylvania]]. The nine-car Pennsylvania Railroad train was carrying baseball fans to the Pirates-Phillies baseball game at Philadelphia, when the last five cars went off track, and three fell down a {{convert|40|foot|adj=on}} embankment.<ref>{{cite news |title=PRR Derailing That Killed 19 Being Probed |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=July 30, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*[[Race riot]]s broke out in [[Dudley]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]], in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mr. F. McEvoy and Mr. H. Reeve (Sentences) (Hansard, 20 January 1964) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1964/jan/20/mr-f-mcevoy-and-mr-h-reeve-sentences |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090702043419/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1964/jan/20/mr-f-mcevoy-and-mr-h-reeve-sentences |archive-date=2 July 2009 |url-status=live |work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]] |date=20 January 1964 |access-date=2009-05-10}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Jason Sherman]], Canadian playwright and screenwriter; in [[Montreal]]

==[[July 29]], 1962 (Sunday)==
*[[Sir Oswald Mosley]], who had founded the [[British Union of Fascists]] and been a vocal Nazi sympathizer prior to Germany's attack on Britain in [[World War II]], was beaten by an angry crowd in [[Manchester]], after leading members of his extreme right-wing [[Union Movement]] on a march through the city.<ref>"Ex-Fascist Battered To Ground In England", ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', July 30, 1962, p. 1</ref>
*A few weeks after [[Algeria]] had attained its independence, 2,000 rebel guerrillas under the command of Colonel Si Hassan seized control of [[Algiers]].<ref>"Algiers Seized By Guerillas"</ref>
*In the final of the [[1962 Speedway World Team Cup]] at Slaný in Czechoslovakia, the five-member [[motorcycle speedway]] team of Sweden finished in first place with 36 points, followed by Great Britain (24), Poland (20) and Czechoslovakia (16). Sweden's [[Björn Knutson]] and [[Soren Sjösten]] were the best of the riders, each with 10 points.
*'''Born:''' [[Scott Steiner]], American college and professional wrestler; as Scott Rechsteiner in [[Bay City, Michigan]]
* '''Died:''' Sir [[Ronald Fisher]], 72, English biologist

==[[July 30]], 1962 (Monday)==
[[File:TCH-blank.svg|140px|thumb|July 30, 1962: The Trans-Canada Highway opens to traffic]]
*The [[Trans-Canada Highway]] was opened at a ceremony to mark the completion of the {{convert|92|mi|adj=on}} long [[Rogers Pass (British Columbia)|Rogers Pass]] Highway through the Canadian Rockies, for the final link of the nearly {{convert|5000|mi|adj=on}} system between [[St. John's, Newfoundland]], and [[Victoria, British Columbia]]. B.C. Premier [[W. A. C. Bennett]] snipped a ribbon near [[Revelstoke, British Columbia|Revelstoke]].<ref>{{cite news |title=5,000-Car Jam, One Crash Mark Opening of Highway |newspaper=[[Vancouver Sun]] |date=July 31, 1962 |page=1}}</ref>
*[[Marilyn Monroe]] made a final telephone call to the [[U.S. Justice Department]], six days before her death. Monroe had been a regular caller to [[U.S. Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]], and historians speculate that he told her during the eight-minute phone call that they could no longer see each other. Monroe's phone records would be confiscated by the FBI, but Kennedy's phone logs would be donated to the [[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]] after his death.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Lamar |last1=Waldron |author1-link=Lamar Waldron |first2=Thom |last2=Hartmann |author2-link=Thom Hartmann |title=Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK |publisher=[[Basic Books]] |year=2006 |page=427}}</ref>
*U.S. President Kennedy agreed to halt reconnaissance flights over Soviet ships in the Caribbean Sea, after USSR Premier Khrushchev proposed the idea "for the sake of better relations"; in the two months that followed, the ships delivered missiles to Cuba.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Dallek |author-link=Robert Dallek |title=An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 |title-link=An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 |publisher=[[Hachette Digital]] |year=2003}}</ref>
*On the same day, President Kennedy began tape-recording conversations in the White House.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Timothy J. |last1=Naftali |author1-link=Timothy Naftali |display-authors=etal |title=John F. Kennedy: the Great Crises, July 30-August 1962 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |year=2001 |isbn=039304954X |page=xlviii}}</ref>
*'''Born:''' [[Alton Brown]], American chef and host of the Food Network show ''[[Good Eats]]''; in [[Los Angeles]]
*'''Died:''' [[Helge Krog]], 73, Norwegian journalist

==[[July 31]], 1962 (Tuesday)==
*The professional football career of [[Ernie Davis]], who had been the #1 choice in the [[1962 NFL draft]], ended three days before he was to begin play for the [[Cleveland Browns]] in the preseason College All-Star Game in Chicago. Davis had checked into the Memorial Hospital in the suburb of [[Evanston, Illinois]], on suspicion that he had the [[mumps]], and then with [[mononucleosis]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Ernie Davis Sick, Lost For All Star Tilt Friday |newspaper=Daytona Beach Morning Journal |location=Daytona Beach, Florida |date=August 1, 1962 |page=6}}</ref> The next day, it was announced that he had a "blood disorder", and in October, it would be revealed that he had [[leukemia]],<ref>{{cite news |title= |newspaper=[[Lewiston Morning Tribune]] |location=[[Lewiston, Idaho]] |date=October 6, 1962 |page=2}}</ref> the disease that would claim his life the following May 18.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ernie Davis Loses In Battle With Acute Leukemia At 23 |newspaper=Miami News |date=May 19, 1963 |page=2C}}</ref>
*A [[Solar eclipse of July 31, 1962|large annular solar eclipse]] covered 97% of the Sun, creating a dramatic spectacle for observers in a path up to {{convert|102.5|km}} wide across South America's Caribbean coast and across Southern Africa. The eclipse lasted 3 minutes and 32.66 seconds at the point of maximum eclipse.
*The [[Military history of Australia during the Vietnam War|Vietnam Era began for Australia]], with the arrival of Colonel [[Ted Serong]], followed by 30 advisers later in the week. Over ten years, ending on [[December 1972|December 2, 1972]], there would be 521 Australians killed in the war.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/vietnam-war/australia-enters-1962.php |title=Australia and the Vietnam War: Australia Enters, 1962 |access-date=2012-06-08 |archive-date=2012-06-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618232558/http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/vietnam-war/australia-enters-1962.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*A symposium outlining a future U.S. [[space station]] was held at [[Langley Research Center]] in Virginia.<ref name="Brooks">{{Source attribution}} {{cite book |title=SKYLAB: A CHRONOLOGY |chapter=PART I: Early Space Station Activities -1923 to December 1962. |last1=Brooks |first1=Courtney G. |last2=Ertel |first2=Ivan D. |last3=Newkirk |first3=Roland W. |series=NASA Special Publication-4011 |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4011/part1a.htm |publisher=[[NASA]] |pages=18–19 |access-date=8 March 2023}}</ref>
*'''Born:'''  
**[[Luis Castiglioni]], [[Vice President of Paraguay]] from 2003 to 2007; [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Paraguay)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] from 2018 to 2019; in [[Itacurubí del Rosario]]
**[[Wesley Snipes]], American film actor; in [[Orlando, Florida]]
*'''Died:'''
**[[Clarence E. Willard]], 79, American circus performer who could alter his height from {{convert|5|ft|10|in}} to {{convert|6|ft|4|in}} through muscle manipulation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Man Who Grows Dies at 79 |newspaper=Oakland Tribune |date=August 2, 1962 |page=15}}</ref>
**[[Miller Electric|Niels Miller]], 63, American inventor and founder of the [[Miller Electric]] manufacturer of [[arc welding]] equipment
**[[George Pepperdine]], 76, American philanthropist and founder (in 1937) of [[Pepperdine University]]

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