Scoop’s Views

April 4 has a couple of interesting items that have made an impact on society. One that’s helped lead mankind forward digitally, the other helped lead mankind forward, somewhat, through civil rights.

April 4, 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a small software interest, though the company’s name, Micro-Soft, wouldn’t come for a few months. Initially, the company was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but later, doing business for the Washington state highway department, running a small company known as Traf-O-Data, and later, in 1986, moving to Redmond, Washington, where the world soon became familiar with the word: Microsoft.

April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, at 6:01 p.m. Years later, in 1989, one of his closest confidants, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, would write a book, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, which presented MLK in a very different light than many often saw him in public.

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