Events on This Day

I tweet random Wikipedia event who occurred some time ago on this date. by @alifaan

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27 Oct 1961 – NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

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04 Apr 1850 - A large part of the English village of Cottenham burns to the ground in suspicious circumstances.

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04 Apr 1814 - Napoleon abdicates for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.

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04 Apr 1969 - Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.

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04 Apr 1460 - Basel University is founded.

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04 Apr 1967 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.

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04 Apr 2002 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.

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04 Apr 1964 - The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.

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04 Apr 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

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04 Apr 1933 - U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.

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04 Apr 1973 - The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.

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04 Apr 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.

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04 Apr 1984 - President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.

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04 Apr 1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.

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04 Apr 1859 - Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.

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04 Apr 1983 - Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.

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04 Apr 1958 - The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

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04 Apr 1721 - Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.

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04 Apr 1866 - Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.

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04 Apr 1994 - Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.

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04 Apr 1796 - Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.