1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
Allowing CBS footage of "Bloody Sunday" as evidence in court, Judge Johnson ruled on March 17, that the demonstrators be permitted to march.
Ironically, on March7, 1850, (exactly 115 years before "Bloody Sunday") Daniel Webster gave his famous "Seventh of March speech" in favor of the Compromise of 1850, which, while it postponed the Civil War, strengthened states' rights at the cost of African-American freedom.
On March7, 1850, Senator Daniel Webster delivered his famous "Seventh of March" speech urging sectional compromise on the issue of slavery.
March7 airpower: C-130s provide in-theater tactical airlift
In Afghanistan March 6, an Air Force B-1B Lancer provided a show of force, releasing multiple flares, for coalition forces who sustained casualties from small-arms fire near Sangin.
On March 4, Air Force, RAF and French tankers flew 38 sorties and off-loaded more than 2.5 million pounds of fuel which is the equivalent of more than 62 full Air Force fuel trucks.
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