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
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