Todays History

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.

NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).

The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.

The social media site Twitter is founded.

The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.

The last male northern white rhinoceros, Sudan, dies, ensuring a chance of extinction for the species.

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.

In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Australian colonies—New South Wales,…