November 1962

Friday 02:

The Cuban Missile Crisis ends as President John F. Kennedy announces that Soviet nuclear missiles are to be withdrawn from Cuba.

Monday 05:

A mining accident kills 21 miners at the government-owned Kings Bay Coal Company on Svalbard, leading the Norweigian government to close the mine.

Tuesday 06:

Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.

Wednesday 07:

Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that this is his "last press conference" and that "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more".

Sunday 11:

1962 Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

Sunday 18:

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, dies at the age of 77.

Tuesday 20:

Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

Wednesday 21:

The Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.

Saturday 24:

The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

Friday 30:

The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.