April 4 (sad day for U.S. people : deaths of Wm H. Harrison in White House; MLK Death at Memphis, TN Motel)

 One month after his

Inaugural address in 1841,

POTUS Wm Henry Harrison

died at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,

D.C. of pneumonia;

at the Lorraine Motel balcony

Martin Luther King, Jr. was gunned

down by a sniper on APRIL 4, 1968 

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momentous on THIS DATE in 1949,

12 nations including the United States,

signed the North Atlantic Treaty

that established NATO.