Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, the late President Kennedy’s younger brother.
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NASA's STS-40 became the first spaceflight with three women to be launched into space.
Registration of US men aged between 21 and 31 began for troops for WWI.
A strike began at a General Motors parts factory.
Serbia declared its independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Cambridge University’s Trinity College.
