TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT
1965: Rev Martin Luther King Jr leads 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.
OTHER EVENTS
1815: Austria, Britain, Prussia and Russia form new alliance against Napoleon Bonaparte after he escapes from confinement on Elba.
1911: A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co factory in New York City kills 146 immigrant workers; the tragedy galvanises America's labour movement.
1941: Yugoslavia joins Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Alliance in World War II.
1971: Pakistani troops are deployed in East Pakistan -- now Bangladesh -- to quell rebels demanding an independent state.
1975: Saudi Arabia's King Faisal is assassinated in Riyadh by nephew with history of mental illness. Faisal's brother, Crown Prince Khaled, succeeds to throne.
1982: The Canada Act is signed; ratifying the Canadian constitution and making the country wholly independent of Great Britain.
1990: Arson fire in illegal nightclub kills 87 in Bronx, New York; most of them Honduran and Dominican immigrants. more
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