Today in history 44

Here are some historical events that occurred on April 4th:

1865: The first train arrives in San Francisco, California, after traveling from the East Coast.

1949: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player in Major League Baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while supporting a strike by African American sanitation workers.

1983: The first cellular network is launched in Japan.

1991: The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, marking the end of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states.

2007: The Virginia Tech shooting occurs, resulting in the deaths of 32 people and injuring 17 others.

2013: The Boston Marathon bombing occurs, killing three people and injuring hundreds.

These are just a few of the many historical events that have occurred on April 4th.