5th » President of the French Republic named French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
7th » The United States United States embargo against Cuba named bans all Cuban imports and exports.
8th » Paris massacre of 1961 8 February 1962 Charonne massacre e.g Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
10th » Captured United States American Lockheed U-2 U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet Union Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
14th » First Lady of the United States known as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
16th » North Sea flood of 1962 or Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
20th » Mercury program: While aboard Mercury Atlas 6 called Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
27th » Two dissident Vietnam Air Force pilots 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing named bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Famous Birthdays on February in 1962
1st » José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2004)
1st » Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Boøwy and Complex (band) or Complex)