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| 1962 |
| | Coventry's new cathedral is inaugurated, enhanced by a wide range of work by leading British artists | |
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| 1962 |
| | A great tapestry by Graham Sutherland hangs above the altar in the newly consecrated Coventry cathedral | |
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| 1962 |
| | John Ashbery's radical collection The Tennis Court Oath includes poems composed of sliced up fragments | |
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| 1962 |
| | Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, setting poems by Wilfred Owen, is first performed in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral | |
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| 1962 |
| | The Eritrean parliament votes to merge fully with Ethiopia, ending Eritrean autonomy | |
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| 1962 |
| | Adolf Eichmann, convicted in Israel for his role in the Holocaust, is hanged in Tel Aviv | |
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| 1962 |
| | The Reivers, the last of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, is published just a month before his death | |
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| 1962 |
| | British author Doris Lessing publishes an influential feminist novel, The Golden Notebook | |
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| 1962 |
| | In a series of informal meetings, Harold Macmillan tries to persuade Charles de Gaulle that Britain should join the EEC | |
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| 1962 |
| | Students for a Democratic Society publish in Michigan The Port Huron Statement, a seminal text of the New Left | |
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