Saturday 4 April 2020

ON THIS DAY APRIL 4th - JUST FOR FUN

1968 - US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

1973 - World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories). Later destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attacks.

1975- Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.

2013 - Poecilotheria rajaei, a giant tarantula with a 20cm leg span, is discovered in Sri Lanka.

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