Major Historical Events on April 4 – Discover What Happened This Day in History

Explore significant past events on April 4. 1850-With a population totaling about 1,600, Los Angeles was incorporated as an American city.1841-After serving for only one month, William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. president to die in office; he was succeeded by Vice President John Tyler.1785-Bettina von Arnim, one of the outstanding women writers in modern German literature, was born in Frankfurt am Main. Read below for more about historical events that occurred on this day April 4

What Happened on this day – April 4

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2023- In a Manhattan court, former U.S. Pres. Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 felony charges relating to an alleged hush-money scheme to avoid a sex scandal during the 2016 presidential campaign; he became the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges.
2013 -A building collapses in Thane, Maharashtra, killing more than 40 people.
2013-American film critic Roger Ebert, who was perhaps the best known of his profession and the first person to receive a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism (1975), died at the age of 70.
2002-After 27 years of fighting, the Angolan government and UNITA signed a cease-fire agreement that ended the country’s civil war.
2000-The government of South Korea ordered some 85 percent of the country’s livestock markets closed in an attempt to end an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that had struck Asian livestock.
1979- Pakistan’s Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is hanged.
1975-Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, which became the world’s largest personal-computer software company.
1968-Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader of the American civil rights movement was assassinated by James Earl Ray.
1969-American surgeon Denton Cooley implanted the first complete artificial heart in a human; several days later the patient received a donor heart but died shortly thereafter.
1960-The biblical epic Ben-Hur became the first film to win 11 Academy Awards; it notably received Oscars for best picture, director (William Wyler), and lead actor (Charlton Heston).
1959-In West Africa the Mali Federation, a short-lived union between the autonomous territories of the Sudanese Republic and Senegal, led by Léopold Senghor, came into being.
1958-The peace symbol, designed by Gerald Holtom, made its first public appearance, displayed on signage during a protest staged by the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
1949-The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed, the founding member nations of this military alliance being Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
1945- German-occupied Hungary liberated by Soviet Red Army.
1944- A British-US joint military strike on a Bucharest oil field in Romania during World War II kills more than 3,000 civilians.
1928-American poet Maya Angelou—perhaps best known for her several volumes of autobiography, which explore the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression—was born.
1913-Muddy Waters, an American blues guitarist and singer who played a major role in creating the modern rhythm-and-blues style, was born.
1905 – An earthquake in the Kangra Valley in the western Himalayas kills 20,000 people.
1862-In the American Civil War, Union forces under General George B. McClellan began the unsuccessful Peninsular Campaign to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1850-With a population totaling about 1,600, Los Angeles was incorporated as an American city.
1841-After serving for only one month, William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. president to die in office; he was succeeded by Vice President John Tyler.
1785-Bettina von Arnim, one of the outstanding women writers in modern German literature, was born in Frankfurt am Main.