Daily Almanac: April 4, 2022

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:27 a.m.     

SET: 8:15 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures

High: 60 °F

Low: 43 °F

Wacky Holiday Today

• National Fun Day

• Vitamin C Day

• World Rat Day

What Happened On This Day

• 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

• 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft

Births On This Day

• 1979 Heath Ledger

Australian actor, director

• 1875 Pierre Monteux

French conductor

Deaths On This Day

• 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr.

American minster, activist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1929 Karl Benz

German engineer, businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz