On this day in 1965, civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. completed their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
On this day in1969, during their honeymoon, John Lennon of the Beatles and Yoko Ono held their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel.
On this day in 1971, the Penghu Cross-Sea Bridge was opened to traffic. It has a 2,160-meter span between Paisha Island and Hsiyu in Taiwan's offshore county of Penghu.