In 1992, McDonald’s opened its first fast-food restaurant in the Chinese capital of Beijing.
In 1954, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. In 1971, hundreds of Vietnam War veterans opposed to the conflict protested by tossing their medals and ribbons over a wire fence in front of the U.S. Capitol.ASSOCIATED PRESSIn 1998, James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
and then insisted he’d been framed, died at a Nashville, Tennessee, hospital at age 70.On April 23, 2005, the recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploaded its first clip, “Me at the Zoo,” which showed YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.
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