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canada
The birth-defect-causing drug thalidomide is banned -
canada
The Canadian dollar is pegged to the U.S. currency -
bombs on planes
Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board -
first black student
The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals -
Alcatraz
3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz -
canada
Canada is the third power to reach space with the launch of scientific satellite -
canada
In the 1962 Federal election John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is reduced to a minority government -
martin luther king jr
Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia -
canada
First medicare plan is launched in Saskatchewan to great protest by doctors -
them there rolling stones
Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London) -
canada
Trans-Canada Highway opens -
canada
A Premiers Conference is held in Victoria, British Columbia -
the beatles
The Beatles drummer Pete Best is fired and replaced by Ringo Starr -
NASA
NASA launches the Mariner 2 space probe -
canada
Place Ville Marie opens in Montreal -
canada
Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite is launched -
troops in mississippi
JFK routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States over russians wanting to bring missles into cuba because it is to close to the USA -
canada
The Bedford Institute of Oceanography opens in Nova Scotia -
vietnam war
After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a non-optimistic public comment on the war's progress.
