Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, the late President Kennedy’s younger brother.
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Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Cambridge University’s Trinity College.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher, was first published.
The District Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional in Montgomery.
Baltimore and Philadelphia were linked up by telegraph.
Serbia declared its independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
