4th April anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "Birth of Antony Tudor, English-born American dancer, teacher and choreographer."
• event
  • 1581
  • Great Britain
  • Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world
  • 1687
  • Great Britain
  • "James II issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists "
  • 1829
  • Great Britain
  • Catholic Emancipation Act restores civil liberties to Roman Catholics
  • 1933
  • United States
  • "The US Navy’s airship ‘USS Akron’ crashed into the sea off the coast of New Jersey, killing 73 people."
  • 1934
  • Great Britain
  • "The first 50 cats-eye reflective road studs were installed at an accident black spot near Bradford, Yorkshire, UK by their inventor Percy Shaw"
  • 1949
  • "The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was founded in Washington DC, with 12 nations signing up to join"
  • 1958
  • Great Britain
  • "The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) held the first Aldermaston March, from Hyde Park Corner, London to the Atomic."
  • 1968
  • United States
  • NASA launched Apollo 6 .
  • 1969
  • United States
  • "The worlds first temporary artificial heart was implanted into a patient by Dr Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas"
  • 1983
  • United States
  • The space shuttle Challenger was launched for the first time .
  • 1984
  • Great Britain
  • "A group of women peace protestors were evicted from their camp outside the RAFs Greenham Common airfield in Berkshire, UK (they later returned)"
• Death
  • 1929
  • Germany
  • "Death of Karl Benz, German mechanical engineer, designed and built the first practical motor car to be powered by an internal combustion engine"
  • 1939
  • Iraq
  • "Death of King Ghazi I of Iraq, died in a car crash, succeeded by his threeyear- old son Faisal II, whose uncle Prince Abdul Ilah ruled on his behalf"
  • 1968
  • United States
  • "Death of Martin Luther King, American black civil rights leader, assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee."
  • 1979
  • Pakistan
  • "Death of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, executed"
  • 1983
  • United States
  • "Death of Gloria Swanson, American actress ."