TV actor David Cross

Events in 1964 and 4-4

Events in US in the birth year of David Cross

• US Supreme Court rules that Congressional districts should be roughly equal in population (Feb. 17).
• Three civil rights workers—Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney—murdered in Mississippi (June). Background: Civil Rights
• President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy issues Warren Report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
• Jack Ruby convicted of murder in slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Birthday David Cross (4-4) in history

• Day 4-4 year 1818: Congress adopted a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
• Day 4-4 year 1841: President William Henry Harrison died from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
• Day 4-4 year 1905: Earthquake in Kangra, India, killed more than 20,000.
• Day 4-4 year 1945: The Ohrdruf death camp was liberated from Nazi occupation.
• Day 4-4 year 1949: The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was signed.
• Day 4-4 year 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
• Day 4-4 year 1973: The ribbon was cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
• Day 4-4 year 1979: Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was executed by the military.
• Day 4-4 year 1981: Henry Cisneros became the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city.
• Day 4-4 year 1983: Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.