That Was the Year That Was: 1962

Seattle Space Needle constructed

Fail-Safe published

Silent Spring published

Launching of TelStar

1/13 -- Ernie Kovacs dies at 42

1/26 -- Lucky Luciano dies at 65

2/3 -- President Kennedy orders trade ban with Cuba

2/10 -- U-2 pilot Gary Powers released by USSR

2/10 -- Jim Beatty breaks indoor four-minute mile

2/20 -- John Glenn orbits Earth three times

2/26 -- Segregation laws in transportation facilities ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court

3/2 -- Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points against N.Y. Knicks

4/3 -- Racial integration in military reserve units, exclusive of National Guard, ordered by defense department

5/12 -- 1,800 Marines sent to Thailand

5/24 -- Scott Carpenter orbits earth three times

6/9 -- Jack Nicklaus wins U.S. Open

6/16 -- Two U.S. Army officers killed near Saigon

6/25 -- N.Y. Law permitting recitation of an official prayer in public schools ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

7/6 -- William Faulkner dies at 64

7/22 -- Gary Player wins PGA

8/5 -- Marilyn Monroe dies at 36

8/15 -- National debt exceeds $300 billion

9/3 -- e.e. cummings dies at 67

9/20 -- James Meredith denied admission to University of Mississippi by Gov. Ross R. Barnett

9/25 -- Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in first round

9/27 -- Mets finish at 40-120 under Casey Stengel

9/28 -- Ross R. Barnett found guilty of civil contempt

9/30 -- James Meredith escorted onto U. of Miss. campus by U.S. Marshals. Two killed in ensuing violence.

10/3 -- Wally Schirra orbits Earth six times

10/4-16 -- Yankees beat Giants in World Series

10/18 -- Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for discovery of DNA

10/22 -- JFK's TV address on Cuban missile crisis

10/25 -- John Steinbeck wins Nobel Prize for Literature

11/7 -- Eleanor Roosevelt dies at 78

11/20 -- Naval blockade of Cuba lifted

12/30 -- NFL Championship: Packers 16, Giants 7

Twenty-year-old Cassius Clay knocks out Archie Moore

National League adds Houston Colt 45's and New York Mets

Yankees win World Series

Arnold Palmer leading money winner, with $81,448

"The Twist" born at Peppermint Lounge in N.Y.C.