Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)
MacArthur died in Walter Reed Army Medical Center after
surgery on 5 April 1964, of primary biliary cholangitis at
age 84.
Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)
MacArthur died in Walter Reed Army Medical Center after
surgery on 5 April 1964, of primary biliary cholangitis at
age 84.
On April 5, 1974, Stephen King, a Maine high school teacher
who had been writing on evenings and weekends, saw his
first full-length novel, Carrie, published.
The release by Doubleday & Co. becomes a bestseller and
inspires a movie of the same name. For King, Carrie kicks
off a phenomenal writing career, one in which he would
come to be known worldwide as the Master of Horror.
Many more books have followed since, for a total of more
than 50 novels and novellas.
Stephen Edwin King ,crowned the "King of Horror,"
is 77 years old.
Douglas James Rain (May 9, 1928 – November 11, 2018)
Douglas Rain was a Canadian actor. Although primarily a stage
actor, he is best-known for voicing HAL 9000, the supercomputer
in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel 2010:
The Year We Make Contact (1984).
He co-founded the Stratford Festival, and was nominated for a
Tony Award for the Broadway play Vivat! Vivat Regina!.
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.
King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital.
He was 39 years old.