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His forces having curbed all political freedoms, Gen. Park Chung Hee becomes chairman of South Korea's military junta.
13 Aug.
The Soviet Union closes the border between East and West Berlin.
15-17 Aug.
East Germany constructs the Berlin Wall.
18 Sept.
UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold dies in a plane crash in Africa.
23 Oct.
The Soviet Union detonates a bomb of between thirty and fifty megatons, creating the largest explosion in history to date.
26-28 Oct.
U.S. and Soviet tanks face off at the border between East and West Berlin.
3 Nov.
U Thant of Burma is elected secretary-general of the United Nations.
12 Nov.
West Germany announces that it will pay up to ten thousand dollars to each of the seventy-three Polish women used in Nazi experiments.
11 Dec.
Adolf Eichmann is convicted in Israel for his role in the deaths of six million Jews during World War II.
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