Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 4
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April 4: Easter (Christianity, 2010); Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar; Hansik in South Korea; (2024); Children's Day in Taiwan and Hong Kong
- 1721 – Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming what would later be recognised as the first British Prime Minister.
- 1850 – Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality, five months before California achieved U.S. statehood.
- 1949 – Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO, an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
- 1968 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, US.
- 1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.