Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
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An EF4 multiple-vortex tornado destroyed areas of two major Alabama cities: Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.
Activists started a 54 mile (87 km) march from Selma to Montgomery.
Alabama passed the Human Life Protection Act, enacting a near-total ban on abortions.
Florida, one of the confederate states, was readmitted to the Union.
Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for a demonstration he was involved in during December 1961.
