April 4

On this day, April 4, 1968, Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated

in Memphis, Tennessee, while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, his death shocked

the nation and became a defining moment in the American Civil Rights movement.

Also on this day, in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established through

the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty.

Also on this day, in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft.