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Events on Wednesday 23 April 1969 1
1969Sirhan Sirhan Sentenced to Death for Robert Kennedy AssassinationA jury convicts Kennedy's killerSirhan Sirhan was convicted of the first-degree murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and sentenced to death on 23 April 1969. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment after California temporarily abolished the death penalty.