04-03-2011, 07:42 PM
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April 4th
1884 ~ Birthday of Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander.
1885 ~ Birthday of Arthur Murray, dancer.
1902 ~ British financier Cecil Rhodes left £6 million in his will to provide scholarships for Americans at Oxford University in England.
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. was assassinated.
1979 ~ Death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan Prime Minister (hanged).
1975 ~ Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
1984 ~ Winston Smith, the main character of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, began writing in his secret diary.
1994 ~ Netscape Communications Corporation was founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
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