Today in History - 4th of April

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What Happened On This Day – 4 April

• 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed

  The former President of Pakistan had been deposed by a coup d'etat. He was hanged despite international calls to stop the execution.

• 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft

  Microsoft has developed into a multinational corporation, and it is the world's largest software maker by revenue.

• 1969 Denton Cooley implants the first artificial heart

  The machine kept patient Haskell Karp alive for 65 hours. He died before a human heart could become available.

• 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

  The civil rights activist was killed by James Earl Ray. Ray, a segregationist, received a 99-year prison sentence. He died in jail in 1998.

• 1949 NATO is formed

  12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty to establish what is today one of the world's most important military alliances

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Births On This Day – 4 April

• 1979 Heath Ledger

  Australian actor, director

• 1979 Roberto Luongo

  Canadian ice hockey player

• 1952 Gary Moore

  Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

• 1928 Maya Angelou

  American author, poet, actress, director

• 1875 Pierre Monteux

  French conductor

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