Alabama passed the Human Life Protection Act, enacting a near-total ban on abortions.
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An EF4 multiple-vortex tornado destroyed areas of two major Alabama cities: Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.
The first-ever 911 call was made in the US.
Rosa Parks was arrested.
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the schoolhouse door, refusing entry to two African American students.
Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
