Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 4
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This is a list of selected April 4 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.April 4: Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar; Hansik in South Korea; (2008); Children's Day in Taiwan
- 1660 – Charles II of England issued the Declaration of Breda, describing his conditions for the Restoration of the crown of England.
- 1721 – Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming the first British Prime Minister, though the term "Prime Minister" was not used at the time.
- 1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO.
- 1968 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1969 – Surgeons Denton Cooley and Domingo Liotta implanted the first total artificial heart.
- 1976 – Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge.
