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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48241)	4/4/2005 3:27:13 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Muddy Waters Today in history-April 4: Muddy Waters, born this day in 1915, was an American blues guitarist and singer who played a major role in creating the modern rhythm-and-blues style. "We didn't do it exactly like the older fellows—just with no beat to it. We put the beat with it. Put a little drive to it.…We went to putting time to our low down Mississippi Blues. We put a pretty good group together because we learned the beat, we learned what the people's moving off of. Even if it's the blues, we still had to drive behind it." Muddy Waters Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated 1968: On this day Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader of the civil rights movement in the United States, was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. King had interrupted his plans for a Poor People's March to Washington, D.C., to come to Memphis in support of a strike by that city's sanitation workers. 1959: The Mali Federation, a short-lived union between the autonomous territories of the Sudanese Republic and Senegal, led by Léopold Senghor, in West Africa, came into being. 1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance, was formed; the founding member nations were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 1862: In the American Civil War, Union forces under George B. McClellan began the unsuccessful Peninsular Campaign to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia; the fighting lasted for several months. 1850: With a population totaling about 1,600, Los Angeles was incorporated as an American city. 1785: Bettina von Arnim, one of the outstanding women writers in modern German literature, was born in Frankfurt am Main. April 4: 1581 - Francis Drake completed a circumnavigation of the globe. 1949 - Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO. 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. 1976 - Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge. 1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan was executed.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48241)	4/5/2005 4:43:39 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Today in history-April 4th-Independence in Chile won 1818: Though the battle for the independence of Chile was begun in 1817, the decisive defeat of Spain on the Chilean mainland (Spain held the island of Chiloé until 1826) did not come until the Battle of Maipú, on this day in 1818. The six-hour battle left 2,000 Spaniards dead and 3,000 captured; the Chilean patriots lost about 1,000 men. José de San Martín and Bernardo O'Higgins were among the leaders of the independence movement. 1984: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar surpassed Wilt Chamberlain as the all-time leading scorer in the NBA. 1856: American educator and reformer Booker T. Washington was born in Virginia. 1621: The Mayflower departed for England after depositing 102 settlers at the American colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1614: Powhatan Indian Pocahontas married Virginia planter and colonial official John Rolfe.