This Day in History: King George VI and his wife come to D.C. for a visit with FDR, the first time a Royal couple had visited the United States, 1936; the very first of a long series of performance machines rolls off the assembly line as "#1"- the first Porsche, a hand-built aluminum prototype is completed, 1948; Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery three days after his death, the second of two very high profile brothers to be killed within five years, giving rise to many plausible conspiracy theories which abound today of how possibly the Mafia had a hand in both assassinations due to their anger over the policies and actions of the Kennedy's while in office which thwarted their underworld activities, 1968; Mick Jagger and Keith Richards do something unusual- ask a fellow band member to get help for HIS drug problems, telling multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones- one of the founding members of the band and the inspiration for many of the early songs which propelled them to stardom- to leave the band and enter rehab, the rock prodigy found dead in a swimming pool not long afterwards, 1969
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