The “Twin Towers” of the World Trade Center officially open
in New York City. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.