June 1

Adolf Eichmann, convicted for his role in organizing the Holocaust, was hanged at Ramla prison a few minutes after midnight, the only judicial execution in Israel's history.

Swaminarayan, the ascetic teacher around whom the Swaminarayan Sampradaya took shape, died at Gadhada in Gujarat on this day in 1830.

The United States Patent Office granted Thomas Edison his first patent, number 90,646, for an electric vote recorder designed to tally legislative ballots quickly.