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1962
 
   
Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport      
1962
 
    
In Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov tells his story through an editor's annotations to a poem       
1962
 
   
British Grand Prix driver Graham Hill wins the first of two world championship titles      
1962
 
   
China prevails in a five-week war with India over disputed boundaries      
1962
 
    
Fidel Castro releases, for $53 million in food and medicine, the Cuban exiles taken prisoner in the Bay of Pigs fiasco    See in Google maps   
1962
 
     
Dmitry Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony sets poems from Yevtushenko's Babi Yar I        
1962
 
    
In The Gutenberg Galaxy Canadian author Marshall McLuhan develops the concept of the 'global village'       
1962
 
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Mrs Ionides lealves the Octagon, stables and the site of Orleans House to the Borough of Twickenham to be used as a public gallery See in Google maps   
1962
 
    
Anthony Burgess publishes A Clockwork Orange, a novel depicting a disturbing and violent near-future       
1962
 
    
British surgeon John Charnley pioneers the technique of joint replacement, giving a patient a new hip in a small hospital in Wrightington       
Total knee replacement
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