6 years ago on April 4th, 2018 Police shoot and kill a man in Crown Heights, Brooklyn who was holding a bent metal piece of pipe as if it were a gun References: A Great Big City
165 years ago on April 4th, 1859 The Civil War anthem 'Dixie' debuts in New York as part of a blackface minstrel show
91 years ago on April 4th, 1933 The USS Akron, one of history's largest airships, crashes into the ocean off the coast of New Jersey, killing 73 and leaving three survivors
57 years ago on April 4th, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"
51 years ago on April 4th, 1973 The twin towers of the World Trade Center officially open, becoming the tallest buildings in the world