June 1968

Monday 03:

Valerie Solanas, author of The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.

Wednesday 05:

U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. (He dies on June 6).

Thursday 06:

Robert F. Kennedy dies.

Saturday 08:

The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

Sunday 23:

74 are killed and 150 injured in a soccer stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium.