On This Day in History
April 04
Historical Events
1581 Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard his galleon, the "Golden Hind" at Deptford, England
1655 Battle of Porto Farina: English fleet defeats Barbary pirates in Tunis
1949 The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance between Western nations
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 opens in New York as the world's tallest building at 110 stories, later destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks
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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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Famous Birthdays
Also Muddy Waters and Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (68)
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Famous Deaths
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Martin Luther King Shot Dead
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Martin Luther King Jr, the celebrated (‘I have a dream’) civil rights campaigner, was shot dead on this day as he stood on a motel balcony in Memphis Tennessee.
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