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*March 2 - [[Ne Win]] seizes control of Burma in a successful military coup.

*June 1 - [[Adolf Eichmann]] is hanged for [[crimes against humanity]] committed during [[the Holocaust]] at Ayalon Prison in Ramla, Israel.

*July 1 - Rwanda declares independence from Belgium, marking the end of the Rwandan Revolution. [[Grégoire Kayibanda]] is named the first President of Rwanda, with his [[Parmehutu]] party becoming the country's ruling party.

*July 4 - The [[Burma Socialist Programme Party]] is established to serve as the governing political party of Burma.

*October 16 to 28 - The [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]: the United States and the Soviet Union have a 12-day standoff after it is revealed that the Soviet Union had constructed missile launch facilities in Cuba. After intense negotiations between President John F. Kennedy and Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]], the Soviet Union agrees to dismantle the Cuban weapons, and in exchange, the United States agrees to remove their weapons from Turkey. The confrontation is often considered the closest the [[Cold War]] came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.

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 *March 2 - [[Ne Win]] seizes control of Burma in a successful military coup.
 *June 1 - [[Adolf Eichmann]] is hanged for [[crimes against humanity]] committed during [[the Holocaust]] at Ayalon Prison in Ramla, Israel.
+*July 1 - Rwanda declares independence from Belgium, marking the end of the Rwandan Revolution. [[Grégoire Kayibanda]] is named the first President of Rwanda, with his [[Parmehutu]] party becoming the country's ruling party.
 *July 4 - The [[Burma Socialist Programme Party]] is established to serve as the governing political party of Burma.
 *October 16 to 28 - The [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]: the United States and the Soviet Union have a 12-day standoff after it is revealed that the Soviet Union had constructed missile launch facilities in Cuba. After intense negotiations between President John F. Kennedy and Premier [[Nikita Khrushchev]], the Soviet Union agrees to dismantle the Cuban weapons, and in exchange, the United States agrees to remove their weapons from Turkey. The confrontation is often considered the closest the [[Cold War]] came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.