Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
6 March 1992
The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
5 March 1824
First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
4 March 1970
French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
3 March 1938
Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
2 March 1995
Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
1 March 1998
Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
28 February 1991
The first Gulf War ends.
27 February 1594
Henry IV is crowned King of France.
26 February 1919
President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.