1st » First broadcast of 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'.
3rd » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 8 named Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
5th » 'Dr. No (film) called Dr. No', the first in the James Bond in film named James Bond film series, is released.
9th » Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
11th » Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
12th » Infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages
13th » The Pacific Northwest experiences Columbus Day Storm of 1962 named a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
14th » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force Lockheed U-2 U-2 reconnaissance plane and its aviator pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet Union Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected
16th » The Cuban missile crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba.
22nd » Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communi
25th » Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson II Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations United Nations Security Council Security Council proving that Soviet Union Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
25th » Uganda joins the United Nations.
25th » Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
27th » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his Lockheed U-2 known as U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air miss
27th » A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
28th » End of Cuban missile crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
Famous Birthdays on October in 1962
1st » Esai Morales, American actor, director, and producer
1st » Paul Walsh, English footballer and sportscaster
2nd » Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic singer and drummer (The Sugarcubes, Þeyr, KUKL (band) named KUKL, Reptile Palace Orchestra)
2nd » Jeff Bennett, American voice actor and singer
2nd » El Dandy, Mexican wrestler
2nd » James Hunter (singer) called James Hunter, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
2nd » Aziz M. Osman, Singaporean-Malaysian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
2nd » Mark Rypien, American football player
3rd » Tommy Lee, Greek-American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (Mötley Crüe, Methods of Mayhem, and Rock Star Supernova)
11th » Andy McCoy, Finnish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Hanoi Rocks, The Suicide Twins, and Shooting Gallery (band) named Shooting Gallery)
14th » Trevor Goddard, English-American actor (d. 2003)
14th » Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
16th » Flea (musician) Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Red Hot Chili Peppers, What Is This?, Atoms for Peace (band) Atoms for Peace, and Fear (band) Fear)
16th » Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player (d. 2010)
16th » Ken Chinn, Canadian singer-songwriter (SNFU and Slaveco.)
16th » Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer
16th » Nico Lazaridis, German footballer
17th » Mike Judge, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor