Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy started his presidential campaign.
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Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America's first public women's boxing match.
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.
George Clooney and Martin Luther King III were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
