April 4

It's April 4th


On this day in 1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.


In 1972 - ZZ Top releases "Rio Grande Mud"


In 1967 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in NYC.



In 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, TN.

– Apollo 6 is launched


In 1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.


In 1973 – The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NYC are officially dedicated.


In 1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger is launched.


In 1996 - Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.




Birthdays:


David Cross
on Tubi

Peter Baltes



Robert Downey Jr.
as Julian Wells in "Less Than Zero"


Mike Starr


Pick Withers


Dave Hill


Caroline McWilliams


Craig T. Nelson
as Sgt. O'Connor in "The Return of Count Yorga"

as Ward Wilson in "Stir Crazy"

Bob McDill


Sharon Sheeley


Andrei Tarkovsky
"Solaris"



Muddy Waters


Frances Langford


Rosemary Lane
as Joan Vance in "The Return of Doctor X"


Agnes Ayres
as Hellen Allen in "Go and Get It"


Pierre Fresnay
as Marius Olivier in "Marius"

as Doctor Rémy Germain in "Le Corbeau"


Italo Mus
""


Pierre Monteaux


Maurice de Vlaminck
"Village"


William Henry Jackson
"Muddy Pond, Rutland Vermont"

Goldi village along the Amur River, north of Khabarovsk in southeastern Russia, 1895


Edward Hicks
"The Peaceable Kingdom"


Grinling Gibbons
"Stoning of St. Stephen"


Gaspar Sanz

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