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| 1962 |
| | | Foreign visits to Burma are restricted to three days (extended in the next decade to one week) | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Marilyn Monroe dies in Los Angeles from an overdose of sleeping pills | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The veteran left-wing politician Victor Haya is elected president of Peru but is thwarted by a coup led by General Ricardo Godoy | |
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| 1962 |
| | | David Lean directs Peter O'Toole in the title role of the film Lawrence of Arabia | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Ruhollah Khomeini, a leading ayatollah in Qom, denounces the Shah of Iran and declares a fatwa against his regime | |
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| 1962 |
| | | 17-year-old English cellist Jacqueline du Pré creates a stir playing Elgar's concerto in the Royal Festival Hall | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Khrushchev permits publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's first book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, in the literary journal Novy Mir | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The Trans-Canada Highway is completed, stretching some 5000 miles across the continent | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The Sandinistas emerge as a guerrilla group in opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The former British colony of Uganda becomes an independent republic, with Milton Obote as prime minister | |
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