Today in History

muqawwee123 · April 4, 2012, 6:45pm

re: Today in History

4th April 1968 : Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death by James Earl Ray at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassination led to riots in more than 100 US cities and a call from the United States President Lyndon Johnson for citizen’s to reject the blind violence that has taken Dr King who had lived by non-violence. James Earl Ray was convicted of his murder and sentenced to 99 years in prison.

4th April 1973 : New York’s World Trade Center The twin towers of the World Trade Center rising 1,350 feet above Manhattan officially became the world’s tallest buildings

4th April 2003 : Chicago Cub’s player Sammy Sosa hit his 500th homer in the seventh inning of a game against the Cincinnati Reds. His hit made him the 18th member of the 500 home run club .

4th April 2003 : During the 2003 invasion of Iraq ** U.S. forces seized Saddam International Airport** outside Baghdad

Islamic fun.

4th April 2006 : T**he Iraq tribunal announce criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and six others, accusing them of genocide and crimes against humanity stemming from a 1980s crackdown against Kurds **

4th April 2006 : Women have voted for the first time in this year’s Kuwaiti council by-elections, and female candidates were among the eight that were running for the seat in the Salmiya district. 60% of eligible voters are women, and voting is in segregated polling booths (a condition that was demanded by Islamist and tribal leaders). Women were granted equal political rights in 2005, and will be able to vote in 2007’s legislative polls.

4th April 2008 : A letter written by Abraham Lincoln is sold at auction for $3.4 million in New York. The 1864 reply to a petition by 195 children asking for the freedom of “all the slave children in this country” has beaten the national record of $3.1 million. Sotheby’s have said that it was bought by an American collector by telephone. The letter asks to “Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.”’ The letter was dated April 5th, 1864.

:hinna: Shaheed Twin Towers

4th April seems to be unlucky day for Saddam.