MARCH 7
1965:More than 600 people begin marching from Selma, Ala., toward the state
capital of Montgomery, demanding voting rights for African Americans and
commemorating Jimmie Lee Jackson, who had been killed at a recent civil rights demonstration.
As the marchers cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Alabama state troopers
and officers use tear gas and billy clubs to halt their progress,
causing more than 50 people to be hospitalized in an event referred to
as Bloody Sunday.
1850: Sen. Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850 in a speech before the U.S. Senate, urging both Northerners and Southerners to compromise on the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories.
1897: Dr. John Kellogg first serves cornflakes to patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., believing they could be cured by exercise, rest and a vegetarian diet. Nine years later, his brother, Will Keith Kellogg, would add sugar to the recipe and begin selling cornflakes as a breakfast cereal. John, a health food purist, disagreed with his brother's alteration and unsuccessfully sued him to keep the Kellogg name off the product.
1850: Sen. Daniel Webster endorses the Compromise of 1850 in a speech before the U.S. Senate, urging both Northerners and Southerners to compromise on the issue of slavery in newly acquired territories.
1897: Dr. John Kellogg first serves cornflakes to patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., believing they could be cured by exercise, rest and a vegetarian diet. Nine years later, his brother, Will Keith Kellogg, would add sugar to the recipe and begin selling cornflakes as a breakfast cereal. John, a health food purist, disagreed with his brother's alteration and unsuccessfully sued him to keep the Kellogg name off the product.
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