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On This Day in History, April 4

What Happened On This Day – April 4

  • 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed

    The former President of Pakistan had been deposed by a coup d'etat. He was hanged despite international calls to stop the execution.

  • 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft

    Today, Microsoft has become a multinational corporation, which is the world's largest software maker by revenue.

  • 1969 Denton Cooley implants the first artificial heart

    The machine kept patient Haskell Karp alive for 65 hours. He died before a human heart became available.

  • 1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated

    King was one of the most important civil rights activists in western history. He was killed by segregationist James Earl Ray who was sentenced to 99 years in prison where he died in 1998.

  • 1949 NATO is formed

    12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty to establish what is today one of the world's most important military alliances.

Births On This Day – April 4

  • 1979 Heath Ledger

    Australian actor, director

  • 1979 Roberto Luongo

    Canadian ice hockey player

  • 1952 Gary Moore

    Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

  • 1928 Maya Angelou

    American author, poet, actress, director

  • 1875 Pierre Monteux

    French conductor

Deaths On This Day – April 4

  • 2013 Roger Ebert

    American journalist, critic, screenwriter

  • 1984 Oleg Antonov

    Soviet aircraft designer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company

  • 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

    Pakistani politician, 4th President of Pakistan

  • 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr.

    American minster, activist, Nobel Prize laureate

  • 1929 Karl Benz

    German engineer, businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz

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