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What happened in history on this day: April 4?
On April 4 in ...
- 1794 - Albion Cox is appointed as US Mint assayer.
- 1818 - US Congress decides US flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars.
- 1850 - City of Los Angeles is incorporated.
- 1862 - Battle of Yorktown, Virginia begins.
- 1862 - US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond, Virginia.
- 1864 - Skirmish at Elkin's Ford (Little Missouri River), Arkansas.
- 1902 - Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund is established with US$10 million.
- 1916 - US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in European war.
- 1932 - Vitamin C first isolated, by C C King, at University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1933 - US dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die.
- 1945 - US forces liberated the German death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.
- 1945 - US tanks/infantry conquer Bielefeld.
- 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) pact signed in Washington DC by US, Britain, France and Canada.
- 1960 - 32nd Academy Awards - Ben-Hur, Charlton Heston, and Simone Signoret win.
- 1962 - George Krutilek, accountant for financial scam linked to Lyndon Johnson, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning, called suicide, but had been hit on head prior to death.
- 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1968 - Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V rocket; unmanned.
- 1968 - Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, civil rights leader, is assassinated by a sniper's bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, at age 39. James Earl Ray is set up as a patsy for a shot fired from a different direction than where he was.
- 1975 - US Air Force transport carrying orphans from Saigon, Vietnam crashes killing 155.
- 1975 - Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
- 1983 - 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched.
- 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- 1988 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
- 1993 - At Camden Yards, Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. president to throw the first pitch of the baseball season from the pitcher's mound.
- 1994 - Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Mosaic Communications (later renamed Netscape).
- 2009 - In Binghampton, New York, USA, a gunman kills 13 people in the American Civic Association building after taking dozens hostage, then kills himself.
- 2022 - Stack's Bowers Galleries sells at auction a unique 1839 gold Daniel Morgan at Cowpens medal, Specimen-63 PCGS, for US$960,000.
Births on April 4
- 1802 - Birth of Dorothea Dix in the US; aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates.
- 1870 - Birth of George A Smith in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 8th president of Mormon church.
- 1875 - Birth of Samuel S Hinds in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (The Bribe, The Egg and I, The Great Alaskan Mystery).
- 1881 - Birth of Charles Funk in Ohio, USA; Encylopediest (Funk and Wagnalls).
- 1892 - Birth of Esther Howard in Montana, USA; actress (Born to Kill, Murder My Sweet, A Fool's Advice).
- 1895 - Birth of Arthur Murray in New York City, New York, USA; dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party).
- 1901 - Birth of Carmel Myers in San Francisco, California, USA; actress (Carmel Myers Show).
- 1906 - Birth of Bea Benaderet in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Kate - Petticoat Junction).
- 1906 - Birth of John Cameron Swayze in Wichita, Kansas, USA; newscaster (Timex spokesman, Hindenberg disaster).
- 1907 - Birth of Nathan M Pusey in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA; educator (1963 National Association for Social Sciences Medal).
- 1913 - Birth of Frances Langford in Lakeland, Florida, USA; singer ("Armed Forces Hour", "Star Time").
- 1913 - Birth of Rosemary Lane in Indianola, Iowa, USA; actress (Four Mothers, Harvest Melody).
- 1914 - Birth of Richard Coogan in Short Hills, New Jersey, USA; actor (Captain Video).
- 1922 - Birth of Elmer Bernstein in New York City, New York, USA; movie music composer (Robot Monster).
- 1925 - Birth of Elizabeth Wilson in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; actor (Doc, East Side/West Side).
- 1928 - Birth of Bill Ryan in Brooklyn, New York, USA; newscaster (Smithsonian).
- 1928 - Birth of Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson] in Saint Louis, Missouri; poet (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings), actress (Nyo - Roots).
- 1932 - Birth of Anthony Perkins in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison).
- 1938 - Birth of A Bartlett Giamatti in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; president of Yale/baseball commissioner (1989).
- 1939 - Birth of Joanne Carner in Kirkland, Washington, USA; LPGA golfer (US Open 1970, 1976).
- 1945 - Birth of Caroline McWilliams in Seattle, Washington, USA; actress (Sally - Soap, Marcy - Benson).
- 1945 - Birth of Walter Charles in East Strousberg, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Fletch Lives, Weeds).
- 1946 - Birth of Craig T Nelson in Spokane, Washington, USA; actor (Chief Jack Mannion - The District, Hayden Fox - Coach, Poltergeist).
- 1948 - Birth of Berry Oakley in Chicago, Illinois, USA; rocker (Allman Brothers - "Ramblin' Man").
- 1948 - Birth of Gail Davies in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, USA; country singer ("Blue Heartache").
- 1948 - Birth of Luke Halpin in Astoria, New York, USA; actor (Sandy Ricks - Flipper).
- 1950 - Birth of Christine Lahti in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actress (Dr Kathryn Austin - Chicago Hope, The Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift).
- 1951 - Birth of Steve Gatlin in Olney, Texas, USA; country singer (Gatlin Brothers - "Broken Lady").
- 1954 - Birth of Julie Carmen in Mount Vernon, New York, USA; actress (Gloria, Last Plane Out).
- 1958 - Birth of John Wesley Jones in Lawton, Oklahoma, USA; 4X100 metre relayer (Olympics-gold-1976).
- 1962 - Birth of Ava Fabian in Brewster, New York, USA; actress (Cafe Nostra).
- 1964 - Birth of Gregory Thomas Kraft in Detroit, Michigan, USA; PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney-second).
- 1964 - Birth of Robbie Rist in California, USA; actor (Oliver - The Brady Bunch).
- 1965 - Birth of Zwart Francis [Charles Thompson]; US singer/songwriter (Pixies).
- 1965 - Birth of Robert Downey Junior in New York City, New York, USA; comedian/actor (Larry Paul - Ally McBeal, Saturday Night Live, Less than Zero, Back to School).
- 1966 - Birth of Michal Clingman in Indio, California, USA; WPVA volleyball player (Nationals-9th-1994).
- 1966 - Birth of Nancy McKeon in Westbury, New York, USA; actress (Jo Polniazek - Facts of Life).
- 1969 - Birth of Carlos Reyes in Miami, Florida, USA; pitcher (Oakland Athletics).
- 1972 - Birth of Jim Werland in Ventura, California, USA; canoe (alternate-Olympics-1996).
- 1972 - Birth of Matt Wagner in Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA; pitcher (Seattle Mariners).
- 1973 - Birth of Damon Allen in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA; figure skater (1997 Midwestern champion).
- 1976 - Birth of Alicia Silverstone in San Francisco, California; actress (Clueless).
- 1979 - Birth of Charles Butler in Salt Lake City, Utah; dance skater (and Joseph-1997 National).
- 1984 - Birth of Sean May, American basketball player.
Deaths on April 4
- 1841 - Death of William Henry Harrison in District of Columbia, USA, of pneumonia at age 68; 9th US President, first US president to die in office.
- 1844 - Charles Bulfinch, first US professional architect (Massachusetts State House), dies at age 80.
- 1883 - Death of Peter Cooper, US presidential candidate for Greenback Party in 1876.
- 1944 - John Peale Bishop, American poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at age 51.
- 1962 - George Krutilek, accountant for financial scam linked to Lyndon Johnson, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning, called suicide, but had been hit on head prior to death.
- 1968 - Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, civil rights leader, is assassinated by a sniper's bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, at age 39. James Earl Ray is set up as a patsy for a shot fired from a different direction than where he was.
- 1972 - Adam Clayton Powell Junior, American politician (Representative-Democrat-New York), dies at age 63.
- 1979 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (Uncle Joe - Petticoat Junction), dies at age 77 (born 1903).
- 1983 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at age 84 (born 1897).
- 1987 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, American author (Judgment Night), dies at age 76 (born 1911).
- 1991 - H. John Heinz III, American politician (Senator-Republican-Pennsylvania), dies in a plane crash, at age 52 (born 1938). Six others are also killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over Merion, Pennsylvania.
- 1992 - Karl Tunberg, US scriptwriter (Ben Hur), dies.
- 1993 - Alfred Mosher Butts, US architect/game maker (Scrabble), dies at age 93.
- 2007 - Death of Bob Clark, American film director (born 1939).
- 2013 - Death of Roger Ebert, American film critic and writer (born 1942).
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