On this day in conspiracies

The trial opens in New Bedford before a three-judge panel. The prosecution is led by Hosea Knowlton and William Moody; the defense by former Massachusetts governor George Robinson and Andrew Jennings. The victims' skulls are entered as evidence, and Lizzie faints in the courtroom.

Sometime between about 4 and 6 a.m., an assailant attacks the tent. Bjorklund, Maki, and Boisman are killed by stabbing and blunt-force blows to the head; Gustafsson is found outside the collapsed tent with a fractured jaw, concussion, and knife wounds. Some belongings, including footwear, are taken from the scene.

The Six-Day War begins between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The USS Liberty (AGTR-5), a lightly armed Navy technical research ship operated with the Naval Security Group to collect signals intelligence, is ordered toward the eastern Mediterranean off the Sinai coast.

Shortly after midnight, having just won the California primary, Kennedy is walking through the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel when Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian-born man, opens fire with a .22 caliber Iver Johnson revolver. Kennedy and five bystanders are wounded. Sirhan is wrestled to the ground still holding the gun.

Two weeks before the collapse, Calvi writes to Pope John Paul II warning that the unraveling of Banco Ambrosiano would provoke a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions in which the Church would suffer grave damage.

The government appoints a high-level inquiry. It is meant to be a three-member panel, but opposition leader Madhav Kumar Nepal declines to serve, citing his party's position, leaving a two-man committee: Chief Justice Keshav Prasad Upadhyay and House Speaker Taranath Ranabhat.