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June 3 - Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol as
he enters his studio, wounding him.
June 4 - The Standard & Poor's 500 index closes above 100 for
the first time, closing at 100.38.
June 5 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot
at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan.
Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day.
June 8 - James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder
of Martin Luther King Jr.
June 10 - Soccer: Italy beats Yugoslavia 2–0 in a replay to win
the 1968 European Championship. The original final on June 8 ended
1–1.
June 20 - Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont
in Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to
protest discrimination in housing allocations.
June 23 - A football stampede in Buenos Aires leaves 74 dead and
150 injured.
June 24 - Giorgio Rosa declares the independence of his Republic
of Rose Island, an artificial island off Rimini, Italy. Italian
troops demolish it not long after.
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