Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 4
April 4: Children's Day in Taiwan
- 1581 - Francis Drake completed a circumnavigation of the globe, the first Englishman to do so.
- 1721 - Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, though the term "Prime Minister" was not used at the time.
- 1949 - Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO.
- 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1976 - Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge.