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1.8 unknown date

• Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring released, giving rise to the modern environmentalist movement
• Pantyhose becomes available for sale in U.S. department stores
• American ad man Martin K. Speckter invents the interrobang, a new English-language punctuation mark
• Sino-Indian War border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations (between India and the People's Republic of China)

2 Year in topic

• 1962 in film
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • The Longest Day
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Gregory Peck
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance starring Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne
  • How the West Was Won, starring Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, George Peppard, Debbie Reynolds
  • Hatari! starring John Wayne
• 1962 in literature
  • Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
  • Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• 1962 in music
  • Release of first Beatles recording: the single "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You" on October 5 (in the United Kingdom only)
• 1962 in sports
• 1962 in television
  • March 16 - Walter Cronkite succeeds Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS Evening News.
  • Les Crane and Regis Philbin host The Tonight Show for a short time, until Johnny Carson took over later in the year

3 Births

3.1 January-February

• January 5 - Joe Monzo, microtonal composer and tuning-theorist
• January 14 - Michael McCaul, American politician
• January 17 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian
• January 21 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
• February 4 - Clint Black, country musician
• February 5 - Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress
• February 6 - Axl Rose, singer (" Guns N'Roses")
• February 7 - Garth Brooks, country music musician
• February 7 - Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
• February 10 - Bobby Czyz, boxer
• February 10 - Cliff Burton, bassist for Metallica (d. 1986)
• February 11 - Sheryl Crow, American singer
• February 11 - Scott Kolden , actor
• February 17 - Lou Diamond Phillips, actor
• February 21 - Vanessa Feltz, British TV presenter
• February 21 - Chuck Palahniuk, author
• February 21 - David Foster Wallace, American writer
• February 22 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist and TV personality ( The Crocodile Hunter)
• February 24 - Michelle Shocked, musician

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