1st » American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
4th » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 Caledonian Airways Flight 153 named crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
6th » Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
13th » Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and Presiden
16th » A Flying Tiger Line Lockheed Constellation e.g Super Constellation Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 e.g disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
18th » The Evian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
19th » Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan (album) e.g Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label.
19th » The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
Famous Birthdays on March in 1962
1st » Mark Gardner (baseball) e.g Mark Gardner, American baseball player
1st » Bill Leen, American bass player (Gin Blossoms)
1st » Melanie Moore (pornographic actress) or Melanie Moore, American porn actress and model
1st » Russell Coutts, New Zealand sailor
2nd » Jon Bon Jovi, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Bon Jovi)
2nd » Paul Farrelly, English politician
2nd » Scott La Rock, American DJ and producer (Boogie Down Productions) (d. 1987)
2nd » Hiroyuki Morioka, Japanese author
2nd » Tom Nordlie, Norwegian footballer and coach
2nd » Michael Salinger, American poet
2nd » Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach