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A bit of April 4th history…
1789 - 1st US Congress begins regular sessions during Washington’s presidency in NYC
1917 - US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington DC
1968 - US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr is assassinated in Tennessee (pictured)
1968 - Riots break out in over 100 cities in the US following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
1975 - Microsoft is founded between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
1999 - Jack Ma founds Chinese internet company Alibaba
2017 - Alibaba becomes the world’s largest retailer according to US Securities and Exchange Commission
A bit of April 4th history… 1789 - 1st US Congress begins...