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Date: April 4, 2016 at 6:03:00 AM EDT
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Subject: 1968: Dr. King is assassinated
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1968 Dr. King 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 theLorraine Motelin 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... read more »
American Revolution 1776 Washington begins march to New York »
Automotive 1933 Man who took NASCAR mainstream is born »
Civil War 1865 President Lincoln tours Richmond »
Cold War 1949 NATO pact signed »
Crime 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated »
Disaster 1933 Dirigible crash kills 73 »
General Interest 1841 President Harrison dies after one month in office » 1918 Second Battle of the Somme ends » 1949 NATO established » 1975 Microsoft founded »
Hollywood 1960 Ben-Hur wins 11 Academy Awards » 2013 Legendary movie critic Roger Ebert dies »
Literary 1928 Maya Angelou is born »
Music 1913 Muddy Waters is born »
Old West 1843 Yellowstone photographer William Jackson is born »
Presidential 1841 Harrison dies of pneumonia » 1865 Lincoln dreams about a presidential assassination »
Sports 1982 Gretzky finishes season with 212 points »
Vietnam War 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr., speaks out against the war » 1975 Operation Baby Lift aircraft crashes »
World War I 1918 Germans and Allies step up operations near Somme »
World War II 1884 Yamamoto Isoroku, Japan's mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack, is born »
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