A+E Networks. In early April 1968, shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez have both received occasional criticisms.
If I live to be a hundred I shall maybe be an anarchist.. Martin Niem ller died in Wiesbaden, Germany, on 6th March, 1984. Since his death Martin Niem ller has achieved a great deal of fame for a poem entitled First they Came for the Communists. However, there is some dispute about when Niem ller wrote the poem and whether it has been altered by others over the years.