Jun 05 Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day

Jun 08 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

Jun 05 US Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles

Jun 20 Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds

Jun 24 Canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner

Jun 30 Gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections

Jun 24 Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title

Jun 15 John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral

Jun 08 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted

Jun 19 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

Jun 26 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US

Jun 05 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68

Jun 06 Senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.

Jun 08 James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport.

Jun 01 Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1

Jun 28 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers

Dec 30 -48ø F (-44ø C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)

Dec 11 The Labor Department announced that the nation's unemployment rate had dwindled to 3.3%, the lowest mark in 15 years.

Dec 12 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired

Dec 07 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit

Dec 21 Launch of Apollo 8 with Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. as Command Module Pilot. During the mission Lovell was one of the first two people to see the far side of the moon. The mission lasted 6 days and 3 hours, and included 10 moon orbits. Recovery was by HS-4 helicopters from USS Yorktown (CVS-10).

Dec 25 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon

Dec 28 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival

Dec 23 Borman, Lovell and Anders become first men to orbit Moon

Dec 28 Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

Dec 27 Apollo 8 returns to Earth

Dec 23 82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea

Dec 05 Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP

Dec 31 First supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)

Dec 01 Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting

Dec 23 First US case of space motion sickness

Dec 09 Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford

Dec 07 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823

Dec 13 Playland at the Beach reopens

Dec 24 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis

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