Today is Wednesday, March 25, the 84th day of 2009. There are 281 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT:
On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
ON THIS DATE:
In 1634, English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore arrived in present-day Maryland.
In 1865, during the Civil War, Confederate forces attacked Fort Stedman in Virginia but were forced to withdraw by counterattacking Union troops.
In 1894, Jacob Coxey began leading an “army” of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington to demand help from the federal government.
In 1918, French composer Claude Debussy died in Paris.
In 1911, 146 people, mostly female immigrants, were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York.
In 1947, a coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., claimed 111 lives.
In 1975, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness. (The nephew was beheaded in June 1975.)
In 1990, 87 people, most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants, were killed when fire raced through an illegal social club in New York City.
In 2008, the Defense Department said it had mistakenly shipped electrical fuses for an intercontinental ballistic missile to Taiwan. (Once the error was discovered, the military quickly recovered the four fuses.)
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