1918 Germany launched the Somme offensive during World War I, hoping to break through the Allied line before American reinforcements could arrive.
1945 Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany during World War II.
1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates.
1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
1994 - Michael Jordan was cut from the White Sox roster and was sent to their minor league club.
2005 Armed with a new law rushed through Congress and signed by President George W. Bush, the attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents pleaded with a judge to order the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube re-inserted. (The judge later refused.)
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