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UN Condemns South African Apartheid

The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution in November 1962 condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and called for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.

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Sonny Liston vs Floyd Patterson

Charles L. “Sonny” Liston became the world heavyweight champion in 1962 after knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round, repeating the knockout the following year in defense of the title.

Liston lost the title in 1964 to Muhammad Ali midst claims that he had been drinking heavily the night before the fight and had entered the bout with a lame shoulder. In a 1965 rematch with Ali, Liston suffered an unexpected first-round knockout that led to unresolved suspicions of a fix.

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George Wallace “Segregation Forever”

In the 1962 Alabama Democratic primary, George Wallace finished first, taking 35 percent of the vote. In the runoff election he won the nomination with 55 percent of the vote. With no Republican filed to run, Wallace won a crushing victory in the November general election with 96 percent of the vote.

 Wallace unsuccessfully sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times, and once as an American Independent Party candidate.

Source: Wikipedia

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir(New World).

Set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s, the book’s publication was the first time in Soviet literary history that an account of Stalinist repressions had been openly distributed. 

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by deployments of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. The confrontation was resolved when the Soviets agreed to dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba in exchange for a US agreement to not invade Cuba again. Secretly, the United States also agreed to dismantle all of the nuclear missiles deployed to Turkey against the Soviet Union. 

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Seattle World’s Fair

Originally conceived to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, the major theme of the fair was to show that the United States was not really behind the Soviet Union. As a result, the major themes were of space, science, and the future.

Although President John F. Kennedy was supposed to attend the closing ceremony of the fair on October 21, 1962, he bowed out, pleading a “heavy cold.” It later became public that he was dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Mariner 2 Flies Past Venus

Launched 36 days after the loss of Mariner 1, Mariner 2 carried the same scientific equipment as it flew by Venus at a range of 21,660 miles.

During a 42 minute scan of the planet, Mariner 2 gathered significant data on the Venusian atmosphere and the surface before continuing on to heliocentric orbit.

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Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia, released in 1962, was a historical drama based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Directed by David Lean, the film starred Peter O’Toole and Alec Guinness.

Nominated for ten Oscars at the 35th Academy Awards in 1963, the film won Best Picture, Best Director and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture

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Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in October 1962. The situation escalated into an international crisis when American missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.

The crisis was avoided when the USSR withdrew its weapons from Cuba and the United States secretly agreed to dismantle all nuclear medium-range ballistic missiles which had been deployed to Turkey for targets in the Soviet Union.

The Cuban missile crisis is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.

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China Invades India

The Sino-Indian War of October–November 1962 centered on the disputed Aksai Chin region along those countries’ borders.

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