On This Day - April 4th

Featured Event:

Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated (1968) 🔪

On this day in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader of the American civil rights movement who was in Memphis, Tennessee, to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers, was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

Other Events:

1841: After serving for only one month, William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. president to die in office. 🪦

1969: American surgeon Denton Cooley implanted the first complete artificial heart in a human. ❤️

1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft 🪟

2023: Donald Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges. 📄

Holidays:

Independence Day 🇸🇳

Peace Day 🇦🇴

NATO Day 🌐

Featured Birthdays:

1928: Maya Angelou 🇺🇸 (Poet)

1957: El Chapo 🇲🇽 (Drug Lord)

1965: Robert Downey Jr. 🇺🇸 (Actor)

1979: Heath Ledger 🇺🇸 (Actor)

Featured Deaths:

1841: William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 (9th President)

1929: Karl Benz 🇩🇪 (Inventor)

1931: André Michelin 🇫🇷 (Industrialist)

1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. 🇺🇸 (Activist)