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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed
The former President of Pakistan had been deposed by a coup d’etat. He was hanged despite international calls to stop the execution.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft
Microsoft has developed into a multinational corporation, and it is the world’s largest software maker by revenue.
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
The civil rights activist was killed by James Earl Ray. Ray, a segregationist, received a 99-year prison sentence. He died in jail in 1998.
NATO is formed
12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty to establish what is today one of the world’s most important military alliances.
- 1979 Heath Ledger
Australian actor, director - 1979 Roberto Luongo
Canadian ice hockey player - 1952 Gary Moore
Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer - 1928 Maya Angelou
American author, poet, actress, director - 1875 Pierre Monteux
French conductor
- 2013 Roger Ebert
American journalist, critic, screenwriter - 1984 Oleg Antonov
Soviet aircraft designer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company - 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Pakistani politician, 4th President of Pakistan - 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr.
American minster, activist, Nobel Prize laureate - 1929 Karl Benz
German engineer, businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz
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