Ephemeris of April 4: What happened in the world on a day like today?

In a April 4but in 1968, 55 years ago, Martin Luther King, pacifist leader of the American black movement and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1964, was assassinated in Memphis (USA).

OTHER EVENTS

1791.- French Revolution. the church of Saint Genevievefrom Paris, becomes Pantheon of Illustrious Men.

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1849.- Austria incorporates Hungary into its empirewhich would give rise to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867.

1884.- By the truce treaty of Valparaiso, bolivian leaves under Chilean law its province of antofagasta.

1926.- They return to ports of sticks (Huelvasouthern Spain) the crew of the Spanish seaplane “plus ultra“After the crossing of the South Atlanticthe first in the world carried out with a seaplane.

1933.- The American Airship”Ankron”, with 77 people on board, falls into the Atlantic. There are only four survivors.

1939.- Faisal II is crowned King of Iraqwith four years of age, after the death of his father in a car accident.

1944.- Creation of the Industrial Bank of Argentina to face the advance of the country’s industrialization process.

1949.- signature in Washington of the document by which the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

1958.- Demonstration of 10,000 people in London against the atomic bomb: the pacifist movement begins.

1969.- First implantation of an artificial heart at the San Lucas clinic in houston (USA).

1972.- Hamilton Watch Introduces Pulsar P1the first digital watch.

1973.- Inauguration of the complex World Trade Center in NY.

1975.- Bill Gates and paul allen software company founded Microsoft.

1978.- the cuban writer Alejo Carpentier receives in Madrid the Miguel de Cervantes Award.

1979.- Execution of former Pakistani President and Prime Minister zulficar ali bhutto in the prison of Rawalpindi.

1983.- maiden flight from Cape Canaveral from the shuttle challenger

1990.- King Baudouin of Belgium temporarily resigns to his powers so as not to be forced to sign, against his conscience, the abortion law, approved by the belgian camera.

1992.- He European Monetary Committee approves the incorporation of the Portuguese coat of arms in the European Monetary System (EMS).

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1994.- Peru formalizes its return to the Andean Pactafter almost two years of absence.

1997.- twenty-one countries of the Council of Europe subscribe in Oviedo the agreement on Human Rights and Biomedicinewhich includes a ban on cloning human beings.

1998.- Opened in Portugal he vasco da gama bridgebuilt for the Lisbon Expo.

2002.- The Angolan Government and the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) sign a peace agreement that puts an end to 27 years of civil war.

2014.- The president of the main Uruguayan public bank (BROU), fernando calloiaand the former Minister of Economy Ferdinand Lawrenceaccused of abuse of functions in the liquidation of the airline feather.

2020.- Eleven miners die in an explosion at a Cucunubá coal minecenter Colombia.

BIRTHS

1914.- Marguerite DurasFrench novelist.

1920.- Eric Rohmer (Maurice Scherer), French filmmaker.

1932.- Anthony PerkinsAmerican actor.

[1945- Daniel Cohn BenditDany el Rojo, student leader of the “French May”, journalist and sociologist.

.- Katherine NevilleAmerican writer.

1949.- Pau FanerSpanish writer.

DEATHS

1284.- Alfonso X the WiseKing of Castilla y León.

1929.- Carl Benzinventor of the first automobile with a gasoline engine.

1983.- Gloria SwansonAmerican actress.

1984.- Oleg AntonovRussian aircraft designer.

1992.- Vintila HoriaSpanish writer born in Romania.

2019.- Alberto CortezArgentine singer-songwriter.

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2020.- Luis Eduardo AuteSpanish-Filipino singer-songwriter.

.- Rafael CallejasHonduran politician.

2021.- francis haghenbeckMexican writer.

Source: Elcomercio

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