<Ul> <Li> Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression . </Li> <Li> Adolf Eichmann, a "most wanted" Nazi war criminal, is traced to Argentina and captured by Mossad agents . He is covertly taken to Israel where he is put on trial for crimes against humanity during World War II, convicted in 1961, and hanged the following year, 1962 . </Li> <Li> Stranger in a Strange Land, written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough best - seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation . </Li> <Li> Bob Dylan is signed to Columbia Records after a New York Times review by critic Robert Shelton . </Li> <Li> Berlin is separated into West Berlin and East Berlin, and from the rest of East Germany, when the Berlin Wall is erected on August 13 to prevent citizens escaping to the West . </Li> <Li> Bay of Pigs Invasion, an attempt by United States - trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, fails . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression . </Li> <Li> Adolf Eichmann, a "most wanted" Nazi war criminal, is traced to Argentina and captured by Mossad agents . He is covertly taken to Israel where he is put on trial for crimes against humanity during World War II, convicted in 1961, and hanged the following year, 1962 . </Li> <Li> Stranger in a Strange Land, written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough best - seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation . </Li>

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