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Did you know ...

• the Motown recording "Do You Love Me" by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987?
• the film David and Lisa, shot in black-and-white for just $183,000, was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Directing?
• the last ever train on the Plymouth to Launceston line failed to complete its journey on 29 December 1962 due to heavy snow?
• although Were Ilu served as an organizing point for the Ethiopian army at the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War, as late as 1962 this settlement was connected to nearby towns by only trails?
• a congressional reporter mistranscribed testimony about a U.S. nuclear test from 1962 named Sedan nuclear test, leading to fears that a nuclear weapon had actually been tested in the Sudan?
• Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S.?
• MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
• a postage stamp the United States Department of the Treasury issued in 1962 that commemorated the centennial of the Homestead Act featured art based on a photograph by Fred Hultstrand?
• "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society?