CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST WAS ASSASSINATED

Assassin fells Martin Luther King Jr., April 4, 1968 - POLITICO

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr.was fatally
shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story
room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation
workers’ strike
and was on his way to dinner when a bullet
struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord.

King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital.
He was 39 years old.

April 1968: Carolina Reacts to the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,  Jr. – For the Record

How MLK's death affected a nation, as told by those who remember it - Los  Angeles Times

LIFE Magazine April 12, 1968 - Martin Luther King 1929-1968

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THE FIRST PORTABLE DEFIBRILLATOR

Frank Pantridge • LITFL • Medical Eponym Library

Dr. J. Frank Pantridge was a cardiologist at Royal Victoria
Hospital in Belfast. He knew that people who die from heart
attacks often do so within an hour of the attack. So in 1965,
Pantridge developed the first portable defibrillator and had
it installed in an ambulance.

His invention has helped paramedics around the world save
many lives.

Frank Pantridge | The BMJ

Prof. Frank Pantridge – EMS Museum

Figure 3 from Professor Frank Pantridge – from Beriberi to pre-hospital coronary care | Semantic ...

FRANK PANTRIDGE MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator ...

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BOMBER ARRESTED ON THIS DAY IN 1996

Ted Kaczynski dead: Unabomber had eluded FBI for years - Los Angeles Times

At his small wilderness cabin near Lincoln, Montana (above),
Theodore John Kaczynski was arrested by FBI agents and
accused of being the Unabomber, the elusive terrorist blamed
for 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 during
an 18-year period.

Officials say 'Unabomber' Theodore Kaczynski has died in federal prison –  WFTV

Biography:Ted Kaczynski - HandWiki

April 4, 1996: A former Berkeley math professor who lived like a hermit in  a mountain shack was in jail today, suspected in the deadly Unabomber  attacks that have baffled authorities for

Ted Kaczynski: Biography, Unabomber, Mathematician
Theodore John Kaczynski  
(May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023)

At 12:23 a.m. on June 10, 2023, Kaczynski was
found in his cell unresponsive with no pulse
after
hanging himself with a shoelace from a
handicap rail.

Photograph of Kaczynski's Bible

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CHILD MAKES BIBLICAL DISCOVERY ON TRIP

Split image of girl holding scarab and Caananite artifact

(FOX NEWS) – The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported on
Monday that 3-year-old Ziv Nitzan came across a 3,800-year-old Canaanite amulet back in March.

The Canaanites were the original inhabitants of the Levant and
were descended from Noah’s grandson Canaan, according to
the Old Testament.

Omer Nitzan, Ziv’s sister, said her family was walking along
Tel Azeka, a hill in the Judaean Foothills, when the 3-year-old
spotted the artifact.
 

The area is the location of the ancient town of Azekah, which
is referenced in 1 Samuel 17:1 during a biblical battle between
David and Goliath.

3-year-old Ziv Nitzan and family
Ziv Nitzan (center) was given a certificate of appreciation for
the discovery.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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The troubled childhood that molded Marlon Brando's brooding persona |  Mashable

The troubled childhood that molded Marlon Brando's brooding persona |  Mashable

Marlon Brando - Actor
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)

Widely regarded as one of the greatest cinema actors of the 20th
century, Brando received
numerous accolades throughout his
career, which spanned six decades, including two
Academy
Awards
, two Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival
Award
, three British Academy Film Awards, and an Emmy
Award
.

Marlon Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to
bring the
Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to
mainstream audiences.

He made his film debut playing a wounded G.I. in The Men
(1950) and won two
Academy Awards for Best Actor for his
roles as a
dockworker in the crime drama film On the
Waterfront
(1954).

Movies You Should Know About: “On the Waterfront” (1954) | Hollywood Fix!

Bố Già 1-The Godfather 1 - Toomva.com
1972


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