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| 1962 |
| | | Sean Connery creates on screen the role of 007 in the first James Bond film, Dr No | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles | |
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| 1962 |
| | | General Ne Win seizes power in a coup in Burma and establishes a single-party isolationist dictatorship | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Frelimo emerges as a Marxist guerrilla group dedicated to winning independence for Mozambique | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US singer Bob Dylan writes one of his best-known songs, Blowin' in the Wind (included in his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) | |
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| 1962 |
| | | James Baldwin's third novel Another Country explores the conflicts in the life of a young unemployed black musician | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Sam Walton opens the first Wal-Mart Discount store, in Rogers, Arkansas | |
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| 1962 |
| | | President de Gaulle makes a surprise appointment, selecting the little-known Georges Pompidou to be the French premier | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The Rolling Stones, led by Mick Jagger, give their first performance as a group, in London's Marquee Club | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US choreographer Glen Tetley creates a ballet to the music of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire | |
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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 |
| | | Students for a Democratic Society publish in Michigan The Port Huron Statement, a seminal text of the New Left | |
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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 |
| | | 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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| 1962 |
| | | David Lean directs Peter O'Toole in the title role of the film Lawrence of Arabia | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Ruhollah Khomeini, a leading ayatollah in Qom, denounces the Shah of Iran and declares a fatwa against his regime | |
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| 1962 |
| | | 17-year-old English cellist Jacqueline du Pré creates a stir playing Elgar's concerto in the Royal Festival Hall | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Khrushchev permits publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, in the literary journal Novy Mir | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The Trans-Canada Highway is completed, stretching some 5000 miles across the continent | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The Sandinistas emerge as a guerrilla group in opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The former British colony of Uganda becomes an independent republic, with Milton Obote as prime minister | |
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