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Events on Friday 1 June 1962 1
1962Adolf Eichmann is executedHolocaust organizer hanged in Israel after landmark trialAdolf Eichmann, a chief architect of the Holocaust's logistics, was executed by hanging in Ramla, Israel on June 1, 1962. He had been captured by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960 and convicted after a widely publicized trial. It remains the only civil execution ever carried out in Israel.