43 years ago today Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot & killed in Memphis. The previous evening he had delivered a powerful speech to striking AFSCME members, saying “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”
The earliest event that Wiki lists for this day is “1081 – Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, beginning the Komnenian dynasty” and the latest is “2008 – In a raid on the FLDS’s YFZ Ranch in Texas, 401 children and 133 women are taken into state custody.”
Other events that occurred on this day include:
1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for his trip around the world.
1841 – William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia. He was the first US President to die in office as well as the one with the shortest amount of time in office.
1850 – Los Angeles becomes a city.
1949 – NATO is formed.
1973 – The World Trade Center is dedicated.
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1975 – Microsoft is founded.
1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger makes its first voyage into space.
2003 – Saddam International Airport is taken by US forces as part of Operation Iraqi Liberation.
Birthday cake goes out to Nancy McKeon & Robert Downey, Jr.