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| 1962 |
| | | Adolf Eichmann, convicted in Israel for his role in the Holocaust, is hanged in Tel Aviv | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The Reivers, the last of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, is published just a month before his death | |
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| 1962 |
| | | British author Doris Lessing publishes an influential feminist novel, The Golden Notebook | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Students for a Democratic Society publish in Michigan The Port Huron Statement, a seminal text of the New Left | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Bette Davis and Joan Crawford star in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane | |
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| 1962 |
| | | British dancer Peggy van Praagh is appointed the first director of the newly formed Australian Ballet | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Ian Smith's white supremacist party, the Rhodesian Front, wins power in Rhodesia's election | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A peaceful demonstration at Rangoon university is dispersed by gunfire, resulting in the death of dozens of students | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A massive yes vote in a referendum is immediately followed by French recognition of Algerian independence | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US golfer Jack Nicklaus turns professional and in the same year wins the first of four US Open titles | |
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