March 21st, 1965Civil rights demonstrators led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It happens weeks after marchers pushing for black voting rights in the South are attacked in Selma. The marches lead to the...
March 20th, 2003American and British forces invade Iraq from neighboring Kuwait. Associated Press correspondent Ross Simpson is with the American marines. They knocked out a T-55, Iraqi tank and engaged some mechanized infantry. Thats a few minutes a...
March 19th,2003For the second time in a dozen years, an American-led coalition launches a war against Iraq. Cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs are aimed at Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near the capital Baghdad. President George W. Bush tells...
March 17th,461 A.D. Saint Patrick, Irelands patron saint for whom Saint Patricks Day is named dies in the Irish village of Saul. Other authorities say Patricks death happened on this day that more three decades later in 493 A.D. 2003President George...
March 16th,1968The My Lai massacre takes place during the Vietnam War. US troops under the command of Lt. William Calley Jr. kill hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai. High ranking army officers initially cover up the incident. But...
March 15th, 44BCThe ides of March, in Ancient Rome, thats when dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of nobles that includes Brutus and Cassius. 1965In Washington, President Lyndon Johnson urges the congress to pass an effective voting ri...
March 11th, 2004. Bombs strike a commuter rail network in Spain's capital, Madrid. The attack linked to the al-Qaeda terror network kills 191 people and wounds more than 2,000 others. 2006Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is found dead in...
March 9th,1954Journalist Edward R. Murrow takes on Senator Joseph R. McCarthys anti-communist campaign. Murrow critically reviews McCarthys tactics on his See It Now program on CBS. The actions of the junior senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm a...
March 8th, 1965. America deepens its military involvement in Southeast Asia as the first US combat troops land in South Vietnam. Thirty-five hundred marines arrive to defend the US air base in Da Nang. Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams is the...
March 15th, 1770. The Boston Massacre takes place, an event that contributes to the outbreak of the American Revolution a few years later. It happens when British soldiers in Boston taunted by a crowd of American colonists open fire and kill five peo...
