1st » Villarrica (volcano) or Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
6th » Constantine II of Greece named Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
14th » A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
20th » The wiktionary:Precursor named precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
27th » The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a moment magnitude scale named magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage, Alaska known as Anchorage.