1873: Sultan Bargash bin Said under British pressure closes the infamous slave market of Zanzibar in modern day Tanzania

1947: US 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 US 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

Source: Onthisday.com