Among those who died were Nelsy Cruz, the governor of Monte Cristi province; former Major League Baseball players Octavio Dotel and Tony Blanco; and merengue musician Rubby Pérez, who was performing when the roof collapsed. (8 April 2025)
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Wednesday 3rd of April 1968 (x) — Activist and African-American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King delivers his last speech 'I've Been tot the Mountaintop'. At the end of the speech King discusses the possibility of an untimely death. On the following day King was assassinated.