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What Happened on April 4th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.
2017	Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians.
2013	More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
2010	A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing two and damaging buildings across the two countries.
2009	France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.
2002	The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
1996	Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
1994	Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
1991	Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1991	Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. 3 of the hostage takers and 3 hostages are killed
1990	The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
1988	Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
1984	President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1983	Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space on STS-6.
1981	Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
1979	Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1977	Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, killing 72.
1975	Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1975	Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.
1973	The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.
1973	A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
1969	Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
1968	Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
1968	Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1967	Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
1964	The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
1963	Bye Bye Birdie, a musical romantic comedy film directed by George Sidney, was released.
1960	France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
1958	The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
1949	Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1946	Greek judge and archeologist Panagiotis Poulitsas is appointed Prime Minister of Greece in the midst of the Greek Civil War.
1945	World War II: United States Army troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
1945	World War II: United States Army troops capture Kassel.
1945	World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country themselves.
1944	World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
1933	U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
1925	The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany.
1913	First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
1905	In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
1887	Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
1866	Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.
1865	American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1841	William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office, and setting the record for the briefest administration. Vice President John Tyler succeeds Harrison as President.
1818	The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).
1814	Napoleon abdicates (conditionally) for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French, followed by unconditional abdication two days later.
1796	Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.
1660	Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
1609	Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.
1581	Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1423	Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule victories were achieved against the Kingdom of Hungary and against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416).
1268	A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
801	King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
611	Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
503	Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
190	Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.

Famous People Born on April 4

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Year	Name
1960	Jonathan Agnew, English cricketer and sportscaster
1991	Yui Koike, Japanese singer and actress
1913	Jules Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (d. 1980)
1953	Simcha Jacobovici, Canadian director, producer, journalist, and author
1819	Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
1952	Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2010)
1977	Keith Bulluck, American football player and sportscaster
1932	Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
1944	Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
1868	Philippa Fawcett, English mathematician and educator (d. 1948)

Famous People Deaths On April 4

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 4. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1861	John McLean, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Postmaster General (b. 1785)
1967	Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
1951	George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
2011	Scott Columbus, American drummer (b. 1956)
1931	André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (b. 1853)
1993	Alfred Mosher Butts, American game designer, invented Scrabble (b. 1899)
1643	Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian and academic (b. 1583)
2008	Francis Tucker, South African race car driver (b. 1923)
1841	William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
1968	Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated) (b. 1929)