Bloody Sunday……
March 7, 1965……
Unarmed marchers are attacked by state troopers with billy clubs and tear gas. Amelia Boynton and others organized a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in response to the fatal shooting of activist and deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson by a state trooper the previous month. The unarmed marchers were attacked by state troopers and county possemen with billy clubs and tear gas after they passed over the county line. Boynton was beat unconscious, and the media publicized worldwide a picture of her lying wounded on the bridge. The event became known as Bloody Sunday.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Disaster……
March 8, 2014…….
The aircraft disappears from air traffic controllers’ radar screens. Malaysian military radar continued to track the aircraft as it deviated westwards from its planned flight path and crossed the Malay Peninsula. It left the range of Malaysian military radar while over the Andaman Sea, 200 nautical miles (370 km) north-west of Penang in north-western Malaysia. The aircraft and its 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers then disappeared. No distress signal or message was sent. Various pieces of debris from the crash have washed ashore in the years following the accident.
Bombing of Tokyo – Most Destructive Bombing in History……
March 9, 1945…….
Over the night of March 9-10, 1945, the U.S. executes a firebombing raid over Tokyo. This is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, with 16 square miles (41 km2) of central Tokyo destroyed, 267,171 buildings destroyed, an estimated over 100,000 civilians killed, and over 1 million left homeless. Tokyo’s industrial output was cut in half due to the bombing. The raid consisted of 334 B-29s dropping 1,665 tons of bombs on Tokyo. The first firebombs were dropped to form a large X pattern over Tokyo’s working class district. The following planes aimed for this large flaming X. High winds caused the fires to spread quickly and turn into major blazes. American casualties consisted of 96 airmen killed or missing, 6 wounded or injured, and twelve B-29s shot down. This was the highest death toll of any air raid during the war, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.