1873: The Kennel Club was founded following a meeting – at no 2, Albert Mansions, London – of 12 gentlemen seeking to promote the “general improvement of dogs”.
1887: Susanna Salter becomes the United States’s first woman mayor when she is elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas.
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.
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1958: The first Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) protest march left Hyde Park in London towards Aldermaston in Berkshire.
1969: Denton Cooley implants the first artificial heart. The machine kept patient Haskell Karp alive for 65 hours, until he received a human heart transplant. His body rejected the transplant and he died on April 8, 1969.
1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after he arrived at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.
1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft. Microsoft has developed into a multinational corporation, and it is the world’s largest software maker by revenue.
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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.
1980: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe won the election to become Zimbabwe’s first black Prime Minister.
1990: South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) insurgents launched a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station Johannesburg. Pamphlets were scattered demanding the release of Walter Sisulu from Robben Island.
2007: A syndicated talk radio host Don Imus ignites a firestorm after making racially disparaging remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, insulting their appearance and tattoos and, most infamously, calling them “nappy-headed hos.” After a nationwide torrent of criticism, Imus apologized and lost his job.
2008: Beyoncé and Jay-Z married with only 40 guests present on their special day.
2014: Levi Bellfield the triple murderer and killer of 13-year-old Milly Dowler’s in 2011 was awarded £4,500 compensation after a prison attack in 2009 in which he suffered minor cuts. Bellfield had launched his legal action after claiming that the prison staff should have protected him.
2023: In a Manhattan court, former U.S. Pres. Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony charges relating to an alleged hush-money scheme to avoid a sex scandal during the 2016 presidential campaign; he became the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges.
Births on This Day, April 4
Roberto Luongo, 45 years
Roberto Luongo is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender born in 1979. He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, and the Vancouver Canucks. In 2022, Luongo was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Maya Angelou (: 4 April 1928 – 28 May 2014)
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry which explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. She died at the age of 86.
Hugh Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018)
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as “the father of South African jazz”. Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as “Soweto Blues” and “Bring Him Back Home”. He died at the age of 78.
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