members of the Committee of 100 of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the U.K. are found guilty of a breach of the Official Secrets Act. February 14 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House. February 15 – Urho Kekkonen is re-elected president of Finland. February 17 – Heavy storms and high tides result in the North Sea flood of 1962 on Germany's North Sea coast, mainly around Hamburg; more than 300 people die and thousands lose their homes. February 18 – 1962 NHRA Winternationals: Carol Cox becomes the first woman allowed to race at a National Hot Rod Association national event; she wins in the Super Stock class. February 20 – Project Mercury: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. February 21 – Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev first dance together in a Royal Ballet performance of Giselle, in London. March March 1 American Airlines Flight 1 (a Boeing 707) crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all 95 on board. The S. S. Kresge Company opens its first Kmart discount store in Garden City, Michigan. March 2 – A military coup in Burma brings General Ne Win to power. March 7 – Ash Wednesday Storm: A snow storm batters the Mid-Atlantic. March 8–12 – In Geneva, France and the Algerian FLN begin negotiations. March 15 – Katangan Prime Minister Moise Tshombe begins negotiations, to rejoin the Congo. March 16 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation chartered by the United States Military Air Transport Service, and carrying mainly United States Army personnel bound for South Vietnam, vanishes over the western Pacific Ocean, with the loss of all 107 on board (no wreckage or bodies are ever found). March 18 Évian Accords: France and Algeria sign an agreement in Évian-les-Bains, ending the Algerian War. "Un premier amour", sung by Isabelle Aubret (music by Claude-Henri Vic, lyrics by Roland Stephane Valade), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1962 for France. March 19 – An armistice begins in Algeria; however, the OAS continues its terrorist attacks against Algerians March 23 – The Scandinavian States of the Nordic Council sign the Helsinki Convention on Nordic