On a cool English summer’s day in July 1962, a young middle-class couple called Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting were married in Oxford and drove to begin their honeymoon by the Dorset coast. The ...

Fifty years ago, John Glenn orbited the earth, the Rocket entered the world and a New York baseball team burned up on re-entry to the National League. That summer, Americans could hear Elvis Presley ...

Despite a series of earthquakes that had ravaged the country, Chile was chosen to stage the 1962 World Cup. Foul play was a feature of the finals, with the most notable victim being Pele, who hobbled ...

Caption from June 8, 1962, issue of LIFE. "What went wrong in the wild stock market and what it means for the U.S."John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images It’s probably cold comfort to anyone ...