On this day: April 4th

On this day: April 4th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: April 4th

Events On this day: April 4th

1581: Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world.
1818: The U.S. Congress adopts the flag of the United States.
1850: Los Angeles, California, is incorporated as a city.
1887: The first woman mayor was elected in the U.S. as Susanna M. Salter became mayor of Argonia, Kansas.
1949: Twelve nations signed the treaty creating NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The nations united for common military defense against the threat of expansion by Soviet Russia into Western Europe.
1969: Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
1973: The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
1974: Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home run record of 714.
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.
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.

1802: American social reformer Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) was born in Hampden, Maine
1875: Pierre Monteux (French conductor)
1884: Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943) was born in Nagaoko, Honshu
1928: Maya Angelou (Poet)
1932: Anthony Perkins (Actor)
1952: Gary Moore (Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer)
1965: Robert Downey Jr. (Actor)
1973: David Blaine (Magician)
1979: Roberto Luongo (Canadian ice hockey player)
1979: Heath Ledger (Actor)

1929: Karl Benz (German engineer, businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz)
1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. (American minster, activist, Nobel Prize laureate)
1979: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Pakistani politician, 4th President of Pakistan)
1984: Oleg Antonov (Soviet aircraft designer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company)
2013: Roger Ebert (American journalist, critic, screenwriter)

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