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Events on April 4

• 1460 The University of Basel, founded by Pope Pius II, is ceremonially opened. It is thus the oldest university in Switzerland.
• 1841 Only 31 days after his inauguration, US President William H. Harrison dies of pneumonia. He is thus the US president with the shortest tenure to date and the first to die in office.
• 1854 Faust: The Tragedy, Part Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, originally not conceived for the stage, is premiered in Hamburg.
• 1923 The American film production company Warner Bros. is founded.
• 1925 On behalf of Adolf Hitler, Julius Schreck founded a hall guard (S.S.) for NSDAP events, which later took the name Schutzstaffel. This paramilitary organization initially consists of only eight men but is rapidly expanded.
• 1949 By signing the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C., the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Norway and Iceland establish NATO.
• 1960 The American feature film Ben Hur, directed by William Wyler, is honored with eleven Academy Awards at the 1960 Academy Awards ceremony held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Bernhard Grzimek's film Serengeti Shall Not Die receives an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
• 1968 Martin Luther King is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King's death subsequently leads to nationwide riots in the USA. Two months later, James Earl Ray is arrested as the suspected perpetrator.
• 1973 The Twin Towers (WTC 1 and 2) of the World Trade Center in New York City, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, are dedicated.
• 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen found a software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which later becomes one of the world's largest multinational corporations under the name Microsoft.
• 1990 The first program of the news magazine stern TV, hosted by Günther Jauch, is broadcast live on the private broadcaster RTL.
• 2023 Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey, as the last member state, approved the accession application that the country had submitted following the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

Born on April 4

• 1880 Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austrian submarine commander and father of the singing Trapp family
• 1892 Edith Södergran, Swedish writer
• 1922 Elmer Bernstein, American film score composer
• 1930 Chlodwig Poth, German satirist, draftsman and caricaturist
• 1931 Karl Obermayr, German character actor
• 1941 Angelica Domröse, German actress
• 1960 Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
• 1970 Mark Kirchner, German biathlete
• 1991 Jamie Lynn Spears, American singer and actress
• 2001 Angelo Stiller, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „4. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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