Daily Almanac: April 04, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset:
RISE: 7:21 a.m.
SET: 8:12 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:
HIGH: 82 °F
LOW: 55 °F

Today is…:

• 404 Day
• Holy Tuesday
• Hug a Newsperson Day

What Happened On This Day:
• 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft. Microsoft has developed into a multinational corporation, and it is the world’s largest software maker by revenue.
• 1969 Denton Cooley implants the first artificial heart. The machine kept patient Haskell Karp alive for 65 hours. He died before a human heart could become available.
• 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. The civil rights activist was killed by James Earl Ray. Ray, a segregationist, received a 99-year prison sentence. He died in jail in 1998.

Births On This Day:

• 1928 Maya Angelou
American author, poet, actress, director
• 1979 Heath Ledger
Australian actor, director

Deaths On This Day:

• 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr.
American minster, activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2013 Roger Ebert
American journalist, critic, screenwriter