Daily Calendar for Saturday, April 4, 2026

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Jérôme Lalande (French astronomer) – 1807
William Henry Harriso (Ninth U.S. President; died of pneumonia a month after inauguration) – 1841
Martin Luther King Jr. (U.S. civil rights leader; was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee) – 1968
Roger Ebert (film critic) – 2013

John Tyler first US vice president to take over after a president died – 1841
Susanna Madora Salter became the first woman to be elected mayor of an American community (Argonia, Kansas) – 1887
First one-way radio telephone communication, New York to Delaware – 1915
The American Interplanetary Society, which would come to be known as the American Rocket Society, was founded by a group of science fiction writers. – 1930
North Atlantic Treaty signed – 1949
Ben Hur won 11 Academy Awards – 1960
The Beatles occupied all the top 5 positions on the Billboard singles chart in the U.S. – 1964
The world’s first totally artificial heart was implanted in a human by US surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley. The patient, Haskell Karp, lived only a few days, dying of pneumonia and kidney failure. – 1969
Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith’s son accepted the nation’s highest award for valor for his late father, who exposed himself to enemy fire in Iraq and saved at least 100 of his fellow U.S. soldiers. It was the first medal of honor awarded in the Iraq War – 2005
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck just south of the U.S. border near Mexicali – 2010

Augusta, Georgia, and six Georgia counties, were hit by a tornado – 1804
Nineteen degrees F in Boston, Massachusetts – 1879
Fifteen degrees F in Concord, New Hampshire – 1944
Thirteen states (including Alabama, Kentucky, and Ohio), as well as Ontario, experienced 148 tornadoes, with numerous fatalities and injuries between April 3 and today – 1974