1556
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake as a heretic.
1804
The French civil code, the Code Napoleon, was officially put forth.
1871
Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1960
Police fired on demonstrators in Sharpeville, South Africa, after which the African National Congress was banned. 25 years later, a march marking the anniversary was also disrupted by police fire.
1963
Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, a harsh maximum security jail which once housed gangster Al Capone, closed.
1965
Martin Luther King, Jr., led the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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