1962

Events

• January 11 to February 7 - The Communist Party of China hosts the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference in Beijing to discuss the consequences of the Great Leap Forward, which is declared over.
• March 2 - Ne Win seizes control of Burma in a successful military coup.
• June 1 - Adolf Eichmann is hanged for crimes against humanity committed during the Holocaust at Ayalon Prison in Ramla, Israel.
• July 4 - The Burma Socialist Programme Party is established to serve as the governing political party of Burma.
• October 16 to 28 - The Cuban Missile Crisis: the United States and the Soviet Union have a 12-day standoff after it is revealed that the Soviet Union had constructed missile launch facilities in Cuba. After intense negotiations between President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union agrees to dismantle the Cuban weapons, and in exchange, the United States agrees to remove their weapons from Turkey. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.

Births

Villain births

• January 3 - Guillermo Fariñas
• January 29 - Ismail Haniyeh
• February 15 - Milo Đukanović
• March 17 - Cesar Sayoc
• April 3 - Brenda Spencer
• May 30 - Innocent Sagahutu
• June 6 - Terrence Brown
• June 24 - Gautam Adani
• June 25 - Anthony Allen Shore
• July 15 - Glen Edward Rogers
• July 18 - Abu Sabaya
• November 1 - Adolfo Constanzo
• November 4 - Jean-Pierre Bemba
• November 23 - Nicolás Maduro & Thomas J. Grasso
• December 22 - Scott Erskine
• Unknown - Brian Robinson
• Unknown - David Wayne Hull

Deaths

Villain deaths

• April 4 - James Hanratty
• May 31 - Adolf Eichmann