Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death in a California gas chamber for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan shot Kennedy on June 5, 1968 as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Year
1969
Date of Event
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