Today in History - History - April 4th

1965Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational

1581Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard Golden Hind at Deptford

1986Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season

1993Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna

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

1814Napoleon abdicates for the first time in favour of his son.

1832Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro

1974Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th

196032nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win

1975Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

1932Anthony Perkins, NYC, actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison)

1913Muddy Waters, [McKinley Morganfield], American blues guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man)

1965Robert Downey Jr, NYC, comedian (SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School)

188Caracalla, Lugdunum Gaul, Roman emperor (198-217)

1924Gil Hodges, Princeton Indiana, baseball player/manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Mets)

1991Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress

2008Singer-songwriter and actress Beyonce Knowles (30) weds rapper Jay-Z (43) at a 13,500-square foot penthouse apartment in New York

1992Comedian Sam Kinison (38) weds Malika Souiri at the Candlelight Chapel in Las Vegas

1750Statesman George Mason (24) weds Ann Eilbeck (16)

2001Actress and model Brooke Shields (35) weds sitcom writer Chris Henchy (37) in Catalina Island, California

1941Andre Michelin, French tire manufacturer, dies at 88

1841William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States, becomes 1st president to die in office at 68 of pneumonia

1983Gloria Swanson, actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84

1968Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis Tennessee at 39