Timeline Monday 9 July 1962

Events on Monday 9 July 1962 2

• 1962 Andy Warhol exhibits Campbell's Soup Cans Pop Art enters the mainstream art world Andy Warhol's first solo gallery exhibition, featuring 32 paintings of Campbell's Soup cans, opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles on July 9, 1962. The show helped establish Pop Art as a major movement and launched Warhol's career as one of the era's most influential artists. The paintings drew on techniques from commercial advertising and mass production.
• 1962 Starfish Prime nuclear test High-altitude US nuclear detonation over the Pacific The United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear warhead 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean on July 9, 1962, as part of Operation Fishbowl. The blast created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii and disabled several satellites, including Telstar, through radiation damage. It remains the largest high-altitude nuclear test ever conducted.