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| | | The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican begins, 94 years after the start of the First Vatican Council under Pius IX | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US intelligence reveals nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba, causing an international crisis | |
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| 1962 |
| | | President Kennedy sends the US navy to prevent delivery of Soviet missiles to Cuba | |
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| 1962 |
| | | British author P.D. James's first novel, Cover Her Face, introduces her poet detective Adam Dalgleish | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US dramatist Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens on Broadway | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A deal between President Kennedy and Soviet premier Khrushchev defuses the Cuban missile crisis | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen completes his TWA terminal for New York's Kennedy airport | |
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| 1962 |
| | | In Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov tells his story through an editor's annotations to a poem | |
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| 1962 |
| | | British Grand Prix driver Graham Hill wins the first of two world championship titles | |
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| 1962 |
| | | China prevails in a five-week war with India over disputed boundaries | |
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