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.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress
to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I.

Four days later, Congress obliged and declared war on
Germany.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)

On March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in
The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for
“oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct”
at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday
speech of Americans.

SANDY KOZEL