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| 1962 |
| | | Bette Davis and Joan Crawford star in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane | |
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| 1962 |
| | | British dancer Peggy van Praagh is appointed the first director of the newly formed Australian Ballet | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Ian Smith's white supremacist party, the Rhodesian Front, wins power in Rhodesia's election | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A peaceful demonstration at Rangoon university is dispersed by gunfire, resulting in the death of dozens of students | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A massive yes vote in a referendum is immediately followed by French recognition of Algerian independence | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US golfer Jack Nicklaus turns professional and in the same year wins the first of four US Open titles | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Harold Macmillan dismisses a third of his cabinet, including his chancellor, in what becomes known as 'the night of the long knives' | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Foreign visits to Burma are restricted to three days (extended in the next decade to one week) | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Marilyn Monroe dies in Los Angeles from an overdose of sleeping pills | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The veteran left-wing politician Victor Haya is elected president of Peru but is thwarted by a coup led by General Ricardo Godoy | |
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