1962
ID: 1781
Oswald returns to U.S. with Soviet wife - No prosecution for treason
ID: 1781
1962
ID: 1782
Engel v. Vitale - Verbal prayer ruled unconstitutional even if voluntary
ID: 1782
1962
ID: 1783
Ken Kesey participates in Stanford LSD experiments
ID: 1783
1962
ID: 1784
Louis Jolyon West kills elephant 'Tusko' with LSD overdose
ID: 1784
1962
ID: 1785
JIOA disbanded after 17 years of operation
ID: 1785
1962
ID: 1786
Federal Bureau of Narcotics posts agents in Asia; Casey co-founds National Strategy Information Center
ID: 1786
1962
ID: 1787
Leo Strauss shapes neoconservative intellectual movement at University of Chicago
ID: 1787
1962
ID: 1788
February-April 1962: Vatican II prepares unpublished schemas condemning 'atheistic communism'
ID: 1788
1962
ID: 1789
Telstar satellite enables first live transatlantic television broadcasts
ID: 1789
1962
ID: 1790
Rachel Carson publishes 'Silent Spring,' beginning environmental awareness
ID: 1790
1962
ID: 1791
Acrylic sheet (Plexiglas) becomes widely used in architecture and construction
ID: 1791
1962
ID: 1792
Second Vatican Council begins (1962-1965) - Battle between modernists and orthodox
ID: 1792
1962
ID: 4315
Manchester University Atlas computer introduces virtual memory - automatic memory management
ID: 4315
1962
ID: 4416
Kenneth Iverson implements APL at IBM - A Programming Language with special symbols, powerful for matrix operations
ID: 4416
1962
ID: 4417
Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard begin Simula at Norwegian Computing Center - first object-oriented language for simulations
ID: 4417
1962
ID: 5264
St. Genevieve becomes patron of French gendarmes - Pope John XXIII declares her patron of military police
ID: 5264
1962
ID: 1780
October 11, 1962
October 11: Pope John XXIII opens Second Vatican Council with 'Gaudet Mater Ecclesia'
ID: 1780