February 1962

Friday 02:

For the first time in 400 years Neptune and Pluto align.

Sunday 04:

Ian Fleming's The Living Daylights first published

Monday 05:

French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing Algeria to be an independent nation.

Wednesday 07:

The United States Government bans all US-related Cuban imports and exports.

Saturday 10:

Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

Wednesday 14:

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.

Tuesday 20:

Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.