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Historical events & facts — April 4
What happened on April 4?
On April 4, 1968, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39. The assassin was James Earl Ray. The news triggered racial riots in more than 100 American cities. His assassination was one of the most devastating blows to the civil rights movement and to American moral conscience.
On April 4, 1949, twelve countries from Western Europe and North America signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington D.C., founding NATO — the largest military alliance in history. The original signatories were the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Italy and Portugal. The Alliance has grown from 12 to 32 members.
On April 4, 1994 (the genocide began on April 6), in Rwanda the Genocide against the Tutsi was imminent — the systematic killing of between 500,000 and 800,000 people — mainly Tutsi — in just 100 days, by Hutu extremists. The international community and the UN did not intervene in time. The Rwandan genocide is one of the most horrifying crimes in modern history.
Notable birthdays — April 4
Famous people born on April 4
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins was an American actor. He is best known for portraying Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig Theodore Nelson is an American actor.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history. His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery and preoccupation with nature and memory.
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II. He commanded the fleet from 1939 until his death in 1943, overseeing the start of the Pacific War in 1941 and Japan's initial successes and defeats before his plane was shot down by U.S. fighter aircraft over New Guinea.
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