1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard 'Golden Hind' at Deptford, England 1655 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates 1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions during George Washington's presidency at Federal Hall, NYC (ending 1791) 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C. 1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee 1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks. 1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 | 
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