HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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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.

LIFE MAGAZINE 17 APRIL 1964 VINTAGE NEWS DEATH OF GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR | eBay

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A FIRST NOVEL PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY

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.

King in 2024
Stephen Edwin King ,crowned the "King of Horror,"
is 77 years old.

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THE VOICE OF HAL

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Douglas Rain dead: Actor and voice of HAL 9000 in 2001 A Space Odyssey dies  at 90
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!.     

  
  
  
 
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OFFICIAL OPENING ON THIS DAY IN 1973

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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.

New York's World Trade Center opened on April 4, 1973.

On this day in 1973, the World Trade Centre first opened in Manhattan.  Happy birthday WTC! Wish you were still here. : r/TwinTowersInPhotos

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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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