Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher, was first published.
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Americans were introduced to bananas.
Registration of US men aged between 21 and 31 began for troops for WWI.
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, the late President Kennedy's younger brother.
Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Cambridge University’s Trinity College.
A strike began at a General Motors parts factory.
