The US celebrated its very first National Book Awards.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono were served deportation papers for overstaying in the US.
Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America's first public women's boxing match.
George Clooney and Martin Luther King III were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
King Gustav III of Sweden was shot during a masquerade ball at the Royal Opera Hall in Stockholm.
Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy started his presidential campaign.
