Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand…
1962 CE
Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand in 1962.
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The New Zealand Antarctic Expedition of 1960—62 maps the trans-Antarctic routes to the South Pole blazed by Roald Amundsen in 1911 and Robert Falcon Scott in 1912.
In 1962, the CIA begins using secret terror teams in Vietnam, establishing the roots of Operation Phoenix.
The United States attacks South Vietnam’s rural population in 1962.
President Kennedy sends the United States Air Force to attack the countryside, where more than 80 percent of South Vietnam’s population live, as part of a program intended to drive several million people to concentration camps called "strategic hamlets".
Burma outlaws opium in 1962.
(Source: Opium: A History)
By the early 1960s, Southeast Asia is home to much of the world’s heroin production, due largely to the settlement in northeastern Burma of CIA-trained nationalist Chinese forces in the wake of the failed operation to invade Communist China.
The Chinese strongmen have terrorized local villagers into growing opium for them and made the so-called Golden Triangle the world’s leader in opium production.
Western avant-garde influenced Japanese writer Abe Kobo publishes his surrealistic urban nightmare The Woman in the Dunes.
EOKA and the TMT begin training again, smuggling weapons in from Greece and Turkey, and working closely with national military contingents from Greece and Turkey that are stationed on the island in accordance with the Treaty of Alliance.
Friction increases in 1962 regarding the status of municipalities.
Each side accuses the other of constitutional infractions, and the Supreme Constitutional Court is asked to rule on municipalities and taxes.
The court's decisions were unsatisfactory to both sides, and an impasse is reached.
Government under the terms of the 1960 constitution has come to appear impossible to many Cypriots.
Saudi relations with Egypt have often been strained following the rise to power of Egypt's Pan-Arab nationalist president, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Egyptian propaganda has made frequent attacks on the Saudi system of royal government.
Egyptian troops lend immediate support to the Yemen Arab Republican Army in Yemen's civil war starting in 1962, which make tensions between Saudi Arabia and Egypt become more acute.
The Saudis, together with Iran and Jordan, help the Yemeni royalist forces against the Egyptian-backed Yemen republic.
Abu Dhabi begins to export offshore oil in 1962.
The British had set up a separate agency in Abu Dhabi town in 1961 for Abu Dhabi affairs only.
In 1962, there is further communal conflict in Bengal.
In 1962, Chinese Communist forces invade India, then withddraw.