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The following events occurred in August 1962: ==August 1, 1962 (Wednesday)== *A Nepal Airlines RNA Douglas C-47A-DL (9N-AAH), en route from Kathmandu-Gaucher Airport to New Delhi, crashed near Tulachan Dhuri. The wreckage was discovered eight days later on a mountain top at 11,200 feet. All four crew and six passengers were killed, including Nepal's ambassador to India.〔(Aviation Safety Network ) retrieved 18 November 2006; "Plane Crash Killed Ten", ''Saskatoon Star-Phoenix'', August 13, 1962 p5〕 Initial reports were that rescue teams had found the airliner and that all ten persons onboard were safe.〔"Lost Nepali Airliner Found, 10 Aboard Reported Safe", ''Palm Beach (FL) Post'', August 4, 1962, p11〕 *The ''Darul Islam'' rebellion in Indonesia was defeated with the capture of its leader, Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwirjo, who would be executed a month later.〔Alonzo Surrette III, ''Jemaah Islamiyah in South East Asia: The Effect of Islamic Nationalism on the Indonesian Political Climate'' (ProQuest, 2009) p4〕 *An assassination attempt, targeting Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah, failed when he finished a speech early before a bomb went off. Nkrumah had stopped in the village of Kulungugu on his way back from a state visit to Upper Volta.〔"Ghana Assassin Fails, Youth Killed", ''Miami News'', August 2, 1962, p1〕 *The 182F Skylane variant of the Cessna 182 aircraft was certified. *In the UK, the Tenbury and Bewdley Railway was closed to passengers, under the Beeching Axe. *Died: General Gordon Bennett, 75, Australian military leader *Died: Dr. George Brown, British scientist, three days after accidentally being infected by bubonic plague at Britain's germ warfare center at Porton Down, Wiltshire.〔"Germ War Scientist Victim Of Black Death", ''Charleston (SC) News and Courier'', August 4, 1962, p1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「August 1962」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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