Major Events
1962

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Major Events of 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis - world stands on brink nuclear war.

Algeria independent from France.

Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago independent from UK.

Brazil wins soccer World Cup.

Chinese-Indian war.

Adolf Eichmann (captured by Mossad agents in 1960) is sentenced to death and hanged in Israel for his part in the Holocaust.

Telstar, the world's first active communications satellite, is launched.



Nelson Mandela jailed in South Africa.

Johnny Carson debuts as host of The Tonight Show.





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