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 shoots Robert F. Kennedy three times, who dies the next day. and wounds 5 others at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California 1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles 1981 World's first today in history program with editable data "TODAY", invented by Michael Butler runs for the first time on a mainframe computer 1984 Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh's holiest site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar | 
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