March 21st, 1965.
1965年3月21日。
Civil rights demonstrators led by dr. Martin Luther King Junior begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
民权示威者由马丁·路德·金领导,开始了从塞尔玛到亚拉巴马州蒙哥马利的游行。
It happens weeks after marchers pushing for black voting rights in the South, are attacked in Selma.
示威者因为南部黑人争取投票选举权,在塞尔玛遭遇攻击,几周后,上述游行运动爆发。
The marches lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act months later.
游行收到效果,投票权法案在数月后得以通过。
1960,in South Africa,police fire on a crowd of blacks, in what becomes known as the Sharpeville Massacre.
1960年,在南非,警察向一群黑人开火,这就是所谓的沙佩维尔大屠杀。
Some 70 people are killed, more than 180 wounded during this bloody chapter in that country's apartheid years.
在那种族隔离的年代,这是这个国家血腥的一页,此次大屠杀造成大约70人丧生,180多人受伤。
1989, Randall Dale Adams is released from a Texas prison, following a dozen years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
1989年,兰达尔·戴尔·亚当斯从德克萨斯监狱获释,无辜入狱长达12年之久。
Adams' conviction for killing a police officer was overturned after the documentary “The Thin Blue Line” challenged the evidence.
在纪录片《细细的蓝线》对证据提出质疑后,亚当斯关于杀害一名警官的定罪得以翻案。
And 1685, composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Germany.
1685年,作曲家和管风琴演奏家约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫在德国出生。
Today in history, March 21st, Ross Simpson the Associated Press.
以上是3月21日《历史上的今天》,美联社罗斯·辛普森为您播报。