04-04-2005, 05:08 AM
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April 4th
1866 ~ Alexander II of Russia narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. A design for a city gate to commemorate his escape was the inspiration for Mussorgsky's The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition.
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1885 ~ Birthday of Arthur Murray, dancer.
1949 ~ Twelve nations signed The North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1964 ~ The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States.
1968 ~ Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated.
1969 ~ Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first temporary artificial heart.
1984 ~ President Ronald Reagan called for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, begins writing in his secret diary.
1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
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