BITS OF HISTORY (APRIL 4)
1949: The North Atlantic Treaty setting up a mutual defence alliance, Nato, was signed in Washington by the foreign ministers of the 12 participating powers.
1968: The American civil rights leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
2006: Women made history in Kuwait by voting and running for office for the first time in a local by-election.
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