My wife was born. Best year ever.
I think they published a book of them also. But that just makes me sadder.
1962 <sigh> the year the Giants lost to the Yankees in Game 7 when McCovey lined out with two outs in the bottom of the 9th … a defining memory for me. Or as Charlie Brown put it “Why couldn’t McCovey have hit the ball just three feet higher?” Obligatory Peanuts cartoon Yeah, I finally got over it in 2010!
Suzuka Circuit constructed. They’ll be racing there in about 5 hours.
As for the Viet Nam war, I’ll bet if you asked a Vietnamese, you would get a different answer.
My father, married to his second wife, seduced my mother, an 18-year old. I, however, didn’t arrive till 1963.
Actually, they were the Houston Colt .45’s when they were founded in 1962.
And, since baseball always expands in even numbers, 1962 also saw the birth of those lovable losers, the Ever Amazin’ New York Mets.
That’s what I was going to say!
Seattle World’s Fair, and the birth of the Space Needle.
I am truly sorry to have to say this, but that’s the year my DH was born. 
Gave up their first run on a balk, didn’t they?
1962: Cartooniverse emerges from uterus, refuses to breathe at first. Establishes lifelong pattern of stubbornness and asthma.
It also had possibly the most powerful nontropical wind storm to hit the US in the 20th century: The Columbus Day Storm. One problem in determining top winds is that most anemometers were destroyed before the storm peaked. (Assuming they were even designed to accurately measure such high winds.) So you see numbers like “145+ mph” or “reports of 170 mph winds”.
Immense devastation over a wide area. 46 dead. Got very little national coverage since it wasn’t a hurricane and it was the Northwest, which few people in the East cared about at the time.
These kind of storms hit the NW every few years. A couple years later another one hit, but not on a holiday so unnamed. The local fire station gauge measured 126 mph and then blew away. And that’s 100 miles inland and low lying. Imagine the winds at the top of the coast mountains.
And me too… 
Another 1962 birth checking in.