Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 4

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  Astley's Amphitheatre
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  William Henry Harrison
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  Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking
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  Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  Martin Luther King, Jr
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  William Henry Harrison
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  Bill Gates in 1977
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  Flag of Hong Kong
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  World Trade Center
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  Napoleon II, age 4
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  Martin Luther King Jr.

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Senegal (1960)	refimprove section
Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar	refimprove
Children's Day in Hong Kong and Taiwan;	refimprove section
1460 – The University of Basel was opened as Switzerland's first university.	refimprove section
1660 – Charles II of England issued the Declaration of Breda, describing his conditions for the Restoration of the crown of England.	refimprove section
1768 – Philip Astley set up the first modern amphitheatre for the display of horse riding tricks in Lambeth, London, the origin of the modern circus.	Astley: refimprove sections; Circus: refimprove section
1796 – French naturalist Georges Cuvier delivered a lecture at the National Museum of Natural History on living and fossil remains of elephants and related species, founding the science of paleontology.	reimprove sections
1814 – Napoleon abdicated as Emperor of the French and named his son [[Napoleon II|Template:Nowrap]] to replace him.	refimprove section
1866 – Russian tsar Alexander II narrowly survived an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov.	"Lede too short" banner, many citation needed tags
1945 – World War II: The U.S. Third Army captured the German city of Kassel after three days of fighting.	refimprove section
1969 – Surgeons Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta implanted the first total artificial heart.	reimprove section
1973 – A C-141, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, flew the last mission of Operation Homecoming to return American prisoners of war from Vietnam.	refimprove
1979 – Deposed Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was controversially executed for authorising the murder of a political opponent.	lots of CN tags (21)
1990 – The current flag of Hong Kong was adopted for post-colonial use during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.	off topic
2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a memorandum of understanding, agreeing to observe the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the 26-year-long Angolan Civil War.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 1268 – The Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice signed a five-year peace treaty.
• 1841 – William Henry Harrison (pictured) became the first U.S. president to die in office, sparking a brief constitutional crisis regarding questions of presidential succession that were unanswered by the U.S. Constitution.
• 1873 – The Kennel Club, the world's oldest kennel club, was founded in the United Kingdom after Sewallis Shirley became frustrated by trying to organise dog shows without a consistent set of rules.
• 1968 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured) was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1973 – A year after the completion of the second of the complex's twin towers, the World Trade Center in New York City was officially dedicated.
• 1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
• 1975 – Vietnam War: On a mission to evacuate children from South Vietnam, a U.S. Air Force plane crash-landed at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, killing 78 children and 60 others.
• 1988 – Evan Mecham, Governor of Arizona, was removed from office after being convicted in his impeachment trial.
• 2013 – A building collapsed on tribal land in Thane in Maharashtra, India, causing 74 deaths.
• Born/died this day: | Liu Yin |d|911| Robert III of Scotland |d|1406| Elena Glinskaya |d|1538| William Strachey |b|1572| Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours |b|1752| Philippa Fawcett |b|1868|Pierre Monteux |b|1875| Maurice de Vlaminck |b|1876| Isaac K. Funk |d|1912| Maya Angelou |b|1928| Frits Bolkestein |b|1933| Jonathan Agnew |b|1960| Nathan Trent |b|1992| Karen Spärck Jones |d|2007| Roger Ebert |d|2013| Addo Bonetti |b|1926|

Notes

• Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 appears on March 19, so 1268 treaty should not appear in the same year
• United States v. Microsoft Corp. appears on April 3, so Microsoft should not appear in the same year

April 4: Hansik in Korea (2024) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrated a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
• 1081 – The Komnenos dynasty came to full power with the coronation of Alexios I Komnenos (pictured) as Byzantine emperor.
• 1859 – Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City as part of their blackface show.
• 1905 – An earthquake hit the Kangra Valley in India, killing at least 20,000 people and destroying 100,000 buildings.
• 1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, establishing NATO, an international military alliance whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.