On This Day: April 4th
Annotation:1581: Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
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Annotation:1818: Congress adopts the US flag with13 red and white stripes and a star for each state.
Annotation:1917: The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.
Annotation:1964: The Beatles become the first act to hold all of the top five positions on the US Billboard charts.
Annotation:1967: Johnny Carson quit "The Tonight Show." He returned three weeks later after getting a raise of $30,000 a week.
Annotation:1968 : Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.
Annotation:1974:Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth's Major League Baseball home-run record with 714.
Annotation:1984: Winston Smith (protagonist in Orwell's "1984") begins his secret diary.
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