April 4<\/p>\n
801 \u2013 During the Reconquista, Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne and King of the Franks, recaptures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege lasting several months.<\/p>\n
1581 \u2013 Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of Earth.<\/p>\n
1818 \u2013 The U.S. Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the redesign of the flag of the United States to reduce the flag to 13 red and white stripes to honor the original colonies and one star for each state.<\/p>\n
1841 \u2013 President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first to die in office, and setting the record for the briefest administration, 31 days after inauguration.<\/p>\n
1865 \u2013 A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, President Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.<\/p>\n
1887 \u2013 Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.<\/p>\n
1933 \u2013 U.S. Navy dirigible airship USS Akron<\/em> is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather, resulting in the loss of 73 or the 76 aircrew aboard including Rear Admiral William A. Moffett MH, known as the architect of naval aviation.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 American troops of the 4th Armored and 89th Infantry Divisions liberate the Ohrdruf, Germany concentration camp, while troops of the 80th Infantry Division capture Kassel northeast of Frankfurt am Main.<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013\u00a0 12 nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at the Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 At St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas, with no transplantable heart available, Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart in patient Haskell Karp, who lives for 65 hours.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated. 1975 \u2013 A USAF Lockheed C-5A Galaxy<\/em> making the first flight of orphans during Operation Babylift<\/em>, crashes on approach during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam killing 138 of the 314 passengers and crew aboard. 1977 \u2013 Southern Airways Flight 242, a Douglas DC-9, crashes during a forced landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, killing 63 of the 85 passengers and crew aboard and 9 more on the ground.<\/p>\n 1983 \u2013 Space Shuttle Challenger<\/em> is launched on STS-6, its maiden voyage, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and 6 others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border in Baja California, killing 2 people and damaging buildings on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 4 801 \u2013 During the Reconquista, Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne and King of the Franks, recaptures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege lasting several months. 1581 \u2013 Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of Earth. 1818 \u2013 The U.S. Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66497"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91541,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66497\/revisions\/91541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA USAF Lockheed C-141 Starlifter<\/em>, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi<\/em>, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming<\/em>, returning U.S. Prisoners of War from Vietnam.<\/p>\n
\nMicrosoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<\/p>\n