What day of the week was April 4, 1968?

The day of the week April 4th, 1968 fell on was a Thursday. There were 10 days until Easter Sunday.

Martin Luther King the Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) died on this day in 1968.

Martin Luther King the Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6. AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.