On this day, March 25 …

1965: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 people to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery after a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

Also on this day:

1634: English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore arrive in present-day Maryland.

English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore arrive in present-day Maryland. 1865: During the Civil War, Confederate forces attack Fort Stedman in Virginia but are forced to withdraw because of counterattacking Union troops.

During the Civil War, Confederate forces attack Fort Stedman in Virginia but are forced to withdraw because of counterattacking Union troops. 1894: Jacob S. Coxey begins leading an “army” of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington D.C., to demand help from the federal government.

Jacob S. Coxey begins leading an “army” of unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington D.C., to demand help from the federal government. 1915: The U.S. Navy loses its first commissioned submarine as the USS F-4 sinks off Hawaii, claiming the lives of all 21 crew members.

1931: In the so-called “Scottsboro Boys” case, nine young black men are taken off a train in Alabama, accused of raping two white women (After years of convictions, death sentences and imprisonment, the nine eventually would be vindicated.)

1947: A coal-dust explosion inside the Centralia Coal Co. Mine No. 5 in Washington County, Ill., claims 111 lives; 31 men survive.