This Day in History – June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy
was assassinated in the Ambassador Hotel by 24-year-old
Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He was shot in the head and died
early the next morning.
Kennedy delivered remarks to a crowd in the Ambassador
Hotel moments before the assassination.
Robert F. Kennedy’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery.
On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most decisive
U.S. victories against Japan during World War II—began. During
the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific
Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers
while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy.
PORTLAND, Ore. — This Sunday is the 118th birthday of Oaks
Park in Portland, Oregon.
Oaks Park is one of the oldest continually operating amusement
parks in America.
To celebrate 118 years, they are hosting a birthday party from
noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.
In 1985 the Bollinger Family donated Oaks Amusement Park to
the non-profit Oaks Park Association, which continues to
operate the park to this day.
Oaks Park Roller Rink is not only the oldest in the country,
but one of the largest.
On June 3, 1965, 120 miles above the Earth, Major Edward H.
White II opened the hatch of the Gemini 4 and stepped out of
the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in
space. Attached to the craft by a 25-foot tether and controlling
his movements with a hand-held oxygen jet-propulsion gun,
White remained outside the capsule for just over 20 minutes.
White had been preceded by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A.
Leonov, who on March 18, 1965, was the first man ever to
walk in space.
Edward Higgins White II
(November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967)
