Under Tuesday, April 4, the book of history records, among other things:
1913: The emergency landing of a German zeppelin at the French military training area in Lunéville evokes the danger of a conflict between the two countries.
1933: The German Reich President Hindenburg wrote to Chancellor Hitler regarding the extent of the discrimination once morest Jewish civil servants and asked for exceptions for Jewish front-line fighters.
1953: After a collision with a Swedish ship, a Turkish submarine sinks in the Dardanelles: 91 dead.
1968: Civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Pastor Martin Luther King is murdered in Memphis, Tennessee.
1968: The process of democratization in Czechoslovakia continues with the secret election of a new Central Committee Presidium.
1973: The “World Trade Center” (WTC) in New York City is officially opened. The building complex, consisting of seven buildings and designed by the Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki, was destroyed in a terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. According to official figures, 3,278 people died in the attack.
1993: Turkey imposes an embargo on Armenia in response to the Armenian offensive in Azerbaijan.
2003: Iraq War: US troops capture Baghdad Airport (“Saddam International Airport”). In the second suicide attack on the invading army, three US soldiers are killed at a checkpoint.
2008: More than 130 children, mostly young girls, living on the ranch of a polygamous cult in Texas are freed by the authorities and taken to an undisclosed location. According to a newspaper, 18 of the children were said to have been abused. The ranch in Eldorado is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints, which practices polygamy.
birthdays: Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, French painter (1758-1823); Hans Richter, German conductor (1843-1916); Kurt Frieberger, Austria writer (1883-1970); Walter Rüegg, Switzerland. sociologist (1918-2015); Loris Capirossi, former Italian motorcycle racer (1973).
days of death: Carol II, King of Romania (1893-1953); Gloria Swanson, US film actress (1899-1983); Carmine Infantino, US comic artist (1925-2013); Martin Luther King, US civil rights activist (1929-1968); Alfred Payrleitner, Austria. Journalist (1935-2018); Michael White, Australia. Psychotherapist (1948-2008); Izzat Ghazzawi, Palestinian. Writer (1951-2003).
name days: Isidore, Ambrose, Engelburg, Platon, Konrad, Benedikt, Basilius, Zosimus, Theodul, Heinrich.