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Repr Vinson offers funds authorization bill including $5,083,600,000 for new aircraft
Police Dept realigns sqds to set up 500-man unit to patrol sts 6 PM-2 AM, peak crime period
Morris will make informal survey on lifting ban; Comr Murphy scores demonstration; denies police brutality
Masferrer indicted by Fed grand jury, Miami, for abortive invasion last Oct 4 in violation of US Neutrality Act; US opposition to pro-Batista exiles and encouragement of other anti-Castro groups linked
1961Vincent Gallo, American actor, director, producer, and musician[â ]
Vincent Gallo is an American actor, filmmaker, and musician. He has won several accolades, including a Volpi Cup for Best Actor, and has been nominated for the Palme d'Or, the Golden Lion, and the Bronze Horse.
1961Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1993)[â ]
Douglas Owen Hopkins was an American musician and songwriter. He co-founded Gin Blossoms, a popular modern rock band of the early 1990s, with Richard Taylor. He was the band's lead guitarist and principal songwriter. Hopkins' writing credits included the hits "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You".
1961Nobuaki Kakuda, Japanese martial artist[â ]
Nobuaki Kakuda is a retired karateka and kickboxer and former K-1 Head referee.
1961The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.[â ]
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust. He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Following this, he was tasked by SS-ObergruppenfĂźhrer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe. He was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In May 1960, he was tracked down and apprehended by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, and put on trial before the Supreme Court of Israel. The highly publicised Eichmann trial resulted in his conviction in Jerusalem, following which he was executed by hanging in 1962.
In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people[â ]