** Robert F. Kennedy, Senator from New York, Presidential candidate in 1968

** Ted Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts

** U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President.

** U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

** Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75 % of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary.

** Senator Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination.

** Al Franken, United States Senator from Minnesota

** Hubert H. Humphrey, American Vice President and Senator ( d. 1978 )

** Jim Bunning, American baseball player and U. S. Senator

** Mary Jo Kopechne, American campaign aide to U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy ( b. 1940 )

** Robert Stafford, Governor of Vermont, U. S Representative and U. S. Senator ( d. 2006 )

** U. S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

** Robert F. Kennedy, U. S. Senator and U. S. Attorney General ( assassinated ) ( b. 1925 )

** Edward Brooke, Senator from Massachusetts

** In Forlì, Italy, the brigate rosse kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.

** In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U. S. presidential election, the Republican vice presidential nominee, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960.

** Walter Mondale, U. S. Senator, Vice President and Presidential candidate

** John H. Bankhead, U. S. Senator from Alabama ( b. 1842 )

** Winthrop M. Crane, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator ( b. 1853 )

** Eugene McCarthy, U. S. Senator from Minnesota and Presidential candidate ( d. 2005 )

** Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six other people are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.

** William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of U. S. Senator Edward Kennedy, is identified as a suspect in an alleged Palm Beach, Florida sexual assault.

** Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.

** John Glenn, American astronaut and former U. S. Senator

** Dennis the Menace Annual, now known as the Dennis and Gnasher Annual, a compilation of the comics plus new material

** Punt and Dennis, a comedy double act consisting of Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis

** Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player

** Dennis Unkovic, American author

** Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author

** Dennis O ' Neill, young victim of the Care Systems ( b. 1932 )

** Dennis Hastert, American politician and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

** Dennis Dugan, American actor and director

** Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist ( d. 2011 )

** Dennis Satin, German film director

** Roy Dennis, disabled American boy ( d. 1978 )

** Sandy Dennis, American actress ( d. 1992 )

** Pat Dennis, American football player

** Dennis Skinner, British politician

** Dennis Potter, English writer ( d. 1994 )

** See more fully the discussion in Dennis J. Baker, The Right Not to be Criminalized: Demarcating Criminal Law's Authority ( Ashgate, 2011 < http :// www. ashgate. com / isbn / 9781409427650 >) where Professor Baker argues ( in chapter 5 ) that there is a limit to consensual harm doing — but that the threshold of harm has to be reasonably high.

** Matilda the Musical, a musical adaptation of the novel by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin

** South Dennis

** Dennis

** Forrest Gump-Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis S. Sands and William B. Kaplan

** Contact-Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis S. Sands and William B. Kaplan

** Cast Away-Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis S. Sands and William B. Kaplan