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June 1, 1962

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Headlines from June 1, 1962

STOCKS WIPE OUT MONDAY'S LOSSES IN NEW ADVANCE; Tuesday's Rally Is Extended Exchange Flooded Again Volume 10,710,000 INDEX UP 1.59 FOR WEEK S.E.C. Chief Denies Rigging Inquiry but Says Agency Will Study Fluctuations Stock Market Advances Again to Wipe Out Remaining Loss From Monday's Break

By Burton Crane

Stocks surge again; NYSE list up $8.1 billion, erasing rest of May 28 losses; NY Times combined avg 338.80, up 6.88; vol 10.71 million shares, ticker 1 hr 46 mins late at close; trading floor illus; ASE vol 2.84 million

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Notable Deaths

Adolf Eichmann

1962Adolf Eichmann, a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (born 1906)[†]

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.

Historical Events

Adolf Eichmann

1962Adolf Eichmann, former SS officer in Nazi Germany, is hanged in Israel for having committed crimes against humanity, war crimes, and other offenses.[†]

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.

Historical Context for June 1, 1962

In 1962, the world population was approximately 3,123,374,315 people[†]