1873-Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania
1947-U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe
1963-State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested
1967 Six-Day War begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria
1968-Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan assassinates Robert F. Kennedy, shooting him 3 times and wounding 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy dies the next day.
1981-AIDS Epidemic officially begins when U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles
1984-Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh's holiest site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar