April 6, 2009
American basketball player Michael Jordan, widely considered the game's greatest all-around player, was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-6
Friday, April 3, 2026
WW2 - Wartime Mobilization of American Society
For World War 2 you must know the victories of the allied powers - D - Day Invasion and "island hopping" also the Atomic Bombs, and mass mobilization of American society. All the guys went and fought in the war - so they needed women to work in the factories. The images above were intended to convince women they were essential to the war effort!
It got so intense Women became baseball players, America missed BASEBALL!!!!
But when the guys came home they wanted their jobs back. Women did not want to give up there jobs. So starts the feminist movement!
This Day In History
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated
On this day in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting striking sanitation workers. While in Memphis, he delivered his famous Mountaintop Speech, in which he invoked the strike as one of many fights for freedom and economic justice for all, regardless of race. The next day, the civil rights leader was shot and killed while he stood on his hotel balcony. Many responded to news of King's murder with anguish and fury, and over the next several days riots and violence broke out in multiple American cities.
Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-4
Thursday, April 2, 2026
This Day In History
April 3, 1968
At an event for the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “Mountaintop Speech.” The following day he was assassinated.
Taken from: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-3
Monday, March 30, 2026
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