The first-ever 911 call was made in the US.
The service went live on this day in Haleyville, Alabama.
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Rosa Parks was arrested.
The Confederate States of America are established.
Alabama passed the Human Life Protection Act, enacting a near-total ban on abortions.
A Ku Klux Klan bomb kills 4 young African-American girls.
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the schoolhouse door, refusing entry to two African American students.
