Cover of Martin Luther King, Jr.MARCH 21
1965:More than 3,200 civil rights demonstrators, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and protected by Alabama National Guard troops, begin marching from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. When they reach the steps of the state Capitol four days later, their numbers will have increased to 25,000 marchers.
1943: Maj. Gen. Henning von Tresckow’s second plot in eight days to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails when would-be suicide bomber Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff runs out of time to detonate the explosives meant to kill the Nazi leader at the Zeughaus arsenal in Berlin.
1960: South African police open fire on a crowd of 5,000 black demonstrators protesting against apartheid laws in the Sharpeville township. Sixty-nine men, women and children are killed.
1943: Maj. Gen. Henning von Tresckow’s second plot in eight days to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails when would-be suicide bomber Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff runs out of time to detonate the explosives meant to kill the Nazi leader at the Zeughaus arsenal in Berlin.
1960: South African police open fire on a crowd of 5,000 black demonstrators protesting against apartheid laws in the Sharpeville township. Sixty-nine men, women and children are killed.
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