Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) 1925 - Politician
- 1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.
- 1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
- 1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.
- 1983 - An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie "The Day After." The movie depicted the outbreak of nuclear war.
- 1993 - The U.S. Senate passed the Brady Bill and legislation implementing NAFTA.
- 1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden had been accused of orchestrating two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa and later terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.
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