I'm looking for 1962 events and it's all coming up Mad Men. (The Boeing Crash, the Jackie White House Tour).
Also...October 12 - The infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U. S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph (270 km/h); 46 dead, 11 billion board feet (26 million m³) of timber is blown down, with $230 million U.S. in damages.
I remember this! I was a bit more than 2, but I remember because we were running from the car to the house and one of the gusts lifted me off my feet while I was holding on to my dad's hand. I was dangling there like a kite. Huh. That's one of my earliest memories then. Actually, I have a few other memories of that event, including huddling in the house with the power out.