September–October September 2 – C. Walton Lillehei and F. John Lewis perform the first open-heart surgery, at the University of Minnesota. September 6 – The CBC in Montreal, Quebec, goes on air launching television in Canada. September 10 – The European Parliamentary Assembly (from March 1962, the European Parliament) opens. September 15 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia. September 18 – The Soviet Union vetoes Japan's application for membership in the United Nations. September 30 – The Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published. October 14 – The United Nations begins work in the new United Nations building in New York City, designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. October 17 – 17 October affair: Indonesian troops led by General Nasution surround the presidential palace, seeking the dismissal of the People's Representative Council; Sukarno avoids confrontation. October 19 – Alain Bombard begins to sail from the Canary Islands to Barbados in 65 days; he reaches them December 23. October 20 – Martial law is declared in Kenya, in the face of the Mau Mau uprising. October 23 – The West German Federal Constitutional Court bans the Socialist Reich Party as unconstitutional for being a Nazi Party successor organization.
September–October September 2 – C. Walton Lillehei and F. John Lewis perform the first open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota. September 6 – The CBC in Montreal, Quebec, goes on air launching television in Canada. September 10 – The European Parliamentary Assembly (from March 1962, the European Parliament) opens. September 15 – The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia. September 18 – The Soviet Union vetoes Japan's application for membership in the United Nations. September 30 – The Revised Standard Version of the Bible is published. October 14 – The United Nations begins work in the new United Nations building in New York City, designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. October 17 – 17 October affair: Indonesian troops led by General Nasution surround the presidential palace, seeking the dismissal of the People's Representative Council; Sukarno avoids confrontation. October 19 – Alain Bombard begins to sail from the Canary Islands to Barbados in 65 days; he reaches them December 23. October 20 – Martial law is declared in Kenya, in the face of the Mau Mau uprising. October 23 – The West German Federal Constitutional Court bans the Socialist Reich Party as unconstitutional for being a Nazi Party successor organization.