On This Very Day
April 4th
Month:
Day:
- 1850
City of Los Angeles is incorporated.
- 1832
Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro.
- 1896
Gold discovered in the Yukon announced.
- 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1973
World Trade Center opens in New York, later destroyed in 9/11.
- 1975
Microsoft founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
- 1994
First game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners.
- 1999
Jack Ma founds Alibaba, Chinese internet company.
- 2022
Elon Musk becomes Twitter's largest shareholder with 9.2% stock.
- 1979
Heath Ledger, Australian actor and director, born.
- 1812
Territory of Orleans becomes 18th U.S. state, known as Louisiana.
- 1818
U.S. flag to have 13 stripes and a star for each new state passed.
- 2017
Pink Star diamond sold at auction for $71 million in Hong Kong. View Post →
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