| April 4, 1540 |
DeSoto passes through the Indian town of Altamaha
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Hernando deSoto |
| April 4, 1804 |
Tornado kills 11 people in the Augusta, Georgia area
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| April 4, 1881 |
State of Georgia grants a charter for the International Cotton Exposition. |
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1881 International Cotton Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia |
| April 4, 1890 |
Atlanta adds 44 acres to Grant Park
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| April 4, 1937 |
Byron Nelson wins the Masters in Augusta |
| April 4, 1948 |
Rock/blues musician Berry Oakley born, Chicago, Illinois
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Duane Allman and the Allman Brothers Band |
| April 4, 1968 |
Martin Luther King is assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
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Martin Luther King
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| April 4, 1974 |
Jake Billingham gives up Hank Aaron's 714th homer at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
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Hank Aaron
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| April 4, 1974 |
The 1974 "super outbreak" of tornadoes badly damages counties in north Georgia. |
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1974 Tornado Outbreak in Georgia |
| April 4, 1977 |
Southern Airways Flight 242, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashed during a hailstorm while attempting an emergency landing on a two-lane highway near New Hope, Georgia (west of Atlanta)
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| April 4, 1978 |
Police arrest "Chairman of the Forces of Evil," a white man who had begun killing black women in revenge for the Wynnton Stocking Strangler's murder of white women. The strangler had been identified as being black.
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Wynnton Stocking Strangler |
| April 4, 1997 |
First National League game at Turner Field, Atlanta Braves lose to the Chicago Cubs, 5-4. It is only the fifth field used by the Braves as a home field in more than 125 years of playing baseball
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Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves |
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Ted Turner |
| April 4, 2005 |
Phil Mickelson, who won the Masters in 2004, beat Arjun Atwal, Brandt Jobe, Jose Maria Olazabal, and Rich Beem in an unusual 5-way playoff to cap the rain-shortened BellSouth Classic at Sugarloaf in Duluth, Georgia |
| April 4, 2007 |
The Census Bureau reports that the 28-county Atlanta Metropolitan region grew by 890,000 in a ten-year period |
