Once Upon A Time – April 4 – 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Treaty Signed In Washington, D.C.

1581 Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford

1655 Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbary pirates

1789 1st US Congress begins regular sessions during George Washington’s presidency at Federal Hall, NYC (ending 1791)

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C.

1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee

1973 World Trade Center, then the world’s tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.

1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

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Today In Film & Tv

1914 Film serial “Perils of Pauline” shown for the first time in Los Angeles

Today In Music

1971 Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 524 performances, then most expensive Broadway musical at the time

Today In Sport

1974 Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home-run record by hitting his 714th in Cincinnati, facing Jack Billingham

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1958 1st march against nuclear weapons from London to Aldermaston, England, home of the Defence Ministry’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)

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2013 Poecilotheria rajaei, a giant tarantula with a 20cm leg span, is discovered in Sri Lanka