Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher, was first published.
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Isaac Newton was admitted as a student to Cambridge University’s Trinity College.
The US Neutrality Act was enacted.
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, the late President Kennedy's younger brother.
Serbia declared its independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
A strike began at a General Motors parts factory.
