WORLD TRADE CENTER OPENED ON THIS DAY

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The “Twin Towers” of the World Trade Center officially opened in
New York City
after years of delays. The buildings replaced the
Empire State Building as the world’s tallest building. Though they
would only hold that title for a year, they remained a dominant
feature of the city’s skyline and
were recognizable the world over
long before they
were
destroyed in a terrorist attack
in 2001. 



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Manhattan in 1973.

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Sept. 19, 2001: Smoke rises from ground zero of the
collapsed World Trade Center, more than a week after
the terrorist attacks in New York. (AP)


Today, the One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. A 
height of 1,776 feet includes its spire.

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CORPORATION FOUNDED ON THIS DAY

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On April 4, 1975, at a time when most Americans used typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates (68) and Paul Allen (1953 – 2018) 
found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software.

Originally based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Microsoft relocated
to
Washington State in 1979 and eventually grew into a major multinational technology corporation. In 1987, the year after
Microsoft went public, 31-year-old Gates became the world’s
youngest billionaire.

Gates and Allen started Microsoft—originally called Micro-Soft,
for microprocessors and software—in order to produce software
for the Altair 8800 (below) an early personal computer.


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The history of microsoft

Bill Gates makes first China visit in 4 years, will reportedly meet with Xi Jinping
Historians will likely view Bill Gates as a business figure as important to computers as John D. Rockefeller was to oil.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Martin Luther King Jr Assassination James Earl Ray

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 only 39 years old.

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James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998)

Ray was convicted of the Assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr
.

     
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The Lorraine Motel, now known as the National Civil Rights Museum, where King was assassinated.

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OLDEST LITURGICAL BOOKS TO BE SOLD


Being shown is one of the oldest books in existence, the
Crosby-Schoyen Codex.

One of the oldest Christian liturgical books is expected to sell
for more than $2.6 million at an auction in London.

The Crosby-Schøyen Codex was written on Egyptian papyrus
from around 250-350 A.D., and produced in one of the first
monasteries.

"It’s right at that period, that transitional period, when papyrus
scroll starts turning into codex form," Eugenio Donadoni,
Christie’s Senior Specialist, Medieval and Renaissance
Manuscripts,
told Reuters. "So, books as we know them
today. What we have in this book is the earliest known texts
of two books of the Bible."


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DEBUT OF THE PONY EXPRESS IN 1860

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On April 3, 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse
and rider relay teams, simultaneously left St. Joseph,
Missouri,
and Sacramento,
California. Ten days later, on April 13, the
westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately
1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the
eastbound packet’s arrival in St. Joseph by two days and setting
a new standard for speedy mail delivery.

Although ultimately short-lived and unprofitable, the Pony Express captivated America’s imagination and helped win federal aid for a
more economical overland postal system. It also contributed to the economy of the towns on its route and served the mail-service
needs of the American West in the days before the telegraph or
an efficient transcontinental railroad.
 

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Pony Express riders: "Billy" Richardson, Johnny Fry,
Charles Cliff, Gus Cliff.

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Pony Express statue in St. Joseph, Missouri.
       
      
      

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