4 April 1968 is assassinated in Memphis (Tennessee, US) Martin Luther King, pacifist leader of the black movement in us, Nobel Prize for peace, and one of the greatest icons of nonviolence in history.
Martin Luther King. Photo: AFP other efemerides:1284.-dies Alfonso X el Sabio, King of Castile and leon.1791.-during the French Revolution, the Church of Sainte-Geneviève, in Paris, becomes pantheon of men Ilustres.1812.-it brings together the Assembly of the provinces in Buenos Aires United of the Río de la Plata, with representations of the capital and the provincias.1849-Austria Hungary joined the unitary monarchy austro-hungara.1884.-by the Treaty of truce of Valparaiso, Bolivia leaves under Chilean law his province of Antofagasta.1893. Bankruptcy, by poor management and waste, the Universal Company of the interoceanic Canal of Panama, consisting of Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1876.1905-a massive earthquake devastates Northwest of the Himalayas, in the India.1914-born Marguerite Duras, novelist Francesa.1920-born Eric Rohmer (Maurice Scherer), filmmaker frances.1929.-dies Carl Benz, inventor of the first automobile with engine gasolina.1933-the American airship “Ankron”, with 77 people on board, falls to the Atlantic. There are only four supervivientes.1936.-“Hindenburg” airship made his first trip to South America, in some 90 horas.1944-creation of the Industrial Bank of Argentina to deal with the advancement of the process of industrialization of the pais.1945-born Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Danny the red, a student leader of the “French may”, journalist and sociologist, currently MEP for the Verdes.1949-signature in Washington of the document which establishes the Organization of the Treaty of the North Atlantic (NATO).1958.- Demonstration of 10,000 people in London against the atomic bomb: starts the movement pacifista.1960-independence of Senegal.1969.-first implantation of an artificial heart in San Lucas de Houston (Texas, USA) clinic.1969.-die Rómulo Gallegos, writer and former President of Venezuela.1971.-victory of the unit Popular in local elections chilenas.1973-Héctor Campora and Solano Lima take over, respectively, from the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the Republic Argentina.1978-writer Cuban Alejo Carpentier receives in Madrid the Miguel de Cervantes Prize from the hands of the King of espana.1979-execution of the former President and former Prime Minister Zulficar Ali Bhutto in the prison of Rawalpindi.1983.-die Gloria Swanson, actress estadounidense.1984.-dies Oleg Antonov, Russian designer of aviones.1990.-the King Baudouin I of Belgium temporarily renounces her powers for not being forced, against his conscience to sign the abortion law, approved by the House belga.1992-the Committee Monetary European approved the incorporation of the Portuguese escudo in the monetary system (SME).1994 European-Peru formalizes his return to the Andean Pact, after almost two years of ausencia.1997-twenty-one countries of the Council of Europe signed in Oviedo Convention on Human rights and Biomedicine, which includes the prohibition of cloning human beings. In this note:
