APRIL 4
1991:Sen. John Heinz, a Republican from Pennsylvania, and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with Heinz's small plane over Merion, Pa. The toll included two first-grade girls killed by falling debris on the playground of Merion Elementary School.
1841: President William Henry Harrison, who contracted pneumonia after delivering his inaugural address a month earlier, becomes the first president to die in office.
1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is shot and killed by a sniper, believed to be James Earl Ray, while standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. He was 39.
1841: President William Henry Harrison, who contracted pneumonia after delivering his inaugural address a month earlier, becomes the first president to die in office.
1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is shot and killed by a sniper, believed to be James Earl Ray, while standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. He was 39.
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