1962
 
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  • Cuban Crisis - Soviet missiles withdrawn from Cuba.
  • Algeria gains independence from France
  • Vatican Council
  • Burmese diplomat U Thant becomes Secretary General of the UN.
  • Georges Pompidou becomes premier of France
  • Telstar (US communications satellite for broadcast TV & radio)
  • US orbital space flights (by John Glenn, Alan Carpenter & Wally Schirra)
  • US Ranger Moon crash landing
  • Thalidomide identified as causing deformities in babies
  • Marilyn Monroe dies from a drug overdose.
  • Yves Saint Laurent opens his Parisian fashion house.
  • Andy Warhol begins making silk screen prints of mass-media images.
  • The Beatles make their first recordings.
  • First fibre-tipped pens
  • Southern Aurora non-stop train from Sydney to Melbourne
  • Cahill Expressway (first freeway in Australia) opened
  • Commonwealth Games in Perth
  • Iron ore discovered at Mt Tom Price, WA
  • Hula hoop craze

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