History for April 4

History for April 4 - On-This-Day.com
Dorothea Dix 1802, Linus Yale 1821 - Inventor (Yale Infallible Bank Lock and cylinder lock), Isoroku Yamamoto 1884


Anthony Perkins 1932 - Actor (Movies: "Psycho" series), Kitty Kelley 1942 - Author, Craig T. Nelson 1944 - Actor (Movies: "Turner and Hooch", "Stir Crazy", "Poltergeist")

1841 - U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became the first president to die in office. He had been sworn in only a month before he died of pneumonia.


1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.