Born in 1962

£1 in 1962 would be worth approximately £30.10 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1962 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 2 January – BBC Television broadcasts the first episode of Z-Cars, noted as a realistic portrayal of the police force.
• 14 June – BBC Television broadcasts the first episode of the sitcom Steptoe and Son, written by Galton and Simpson.
• 12 July – The Rolling Stones make their debut at London's Marquee Club, Number 165 Oxford Street, opening for Long John Baldry.
• 6 August – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 21 September – First broadcast of the long-running television quiz programme University Challenge, made by Granada Television with Bamber Gascoigne as quizmaster.
• 9 October – Uganda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 24 October – GCHQ's interception station at Scarborough is the first to detect that Soviet merchant ships implicated in the Cuban Missile Crisis are returning to their bases.
• 10 December – David Lean's film Lawrence of Arabia released.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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