Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy started his presidential campaign.
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King Gustav III of Sweden was shot during a masquerade ball at the Royal Opera Hall in Stockholm.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the single-largest point drop in history.
The US celebrated its very first National Book Awards.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
The world record for rainfall dumped 6.1 feet (1.87m) of rain on Cilaos, Island of Réunion.
