April 4

On This Day In History
	1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated On this day in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader of the American civil rights movement who was in Memphis, Tennessee, to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers, was assassinated by James Earl Ray.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biography Of The Day
	Marguerite Duras French writer and film director Marguerite Duras, internationally known for her screenplays for Hiroshima mon amour and India Song and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel L'Amant, was born this day in 1914.
Marguerite Duras
More Events On This Day In History
2000	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.
	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.
	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.
	1915 Muddy Waters, an American blues guitarist and singer who played a major role in creating the modern rhythm-and-blues style, was born.
1862	1862 In the American Civil War, Union forces under 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.
	1785 Bettina von Arnim, one of the outstanding women writers in modern German literature, was born in Frankfurt am Main.