Martin Luther King, Jr. leads more than three thousand civil rights demonstrators on a march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery - March 21

Death of Davis Griffiths, a Welsh Christian missionary to Madagascar, who had translated the Bible into the Malagasy language.

1526 - In Zurich, Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and George Blaurock escape from prison down a rope. Pacifist Anabaptists believed Christians should not hold power, but had been condemned to life imprisonment on concocted charges of fomenting revolution. Captured again that year, Manz and Blaurock were again imprisoned, and Manz was executed by drowning in 1527.

1556 - Archbishop Thomas Cranmer is burned alive on orders of Mary Tudor, officially because of his “heresies” (he had been a leader in the English Reformation), but actually because of his role in providing King Henry VIII with a divorce from Mary’s mother Catherine many years earlier.

1656 - Death of the archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher. His Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti proposed a biblical chronology that placed the creation of the world in 4004 BC, and his dates will be incorporated into the notes of many Bible versions.

1843 - Gungaram Mundel contracts cholera. He had been the first convert at Khari Baptist Church, Calcutta, and his profession of faith had eased the way for other Indians of the area to follow Christ.

1863 - Death of Davis Griffiths, a Welsh Christian missionary to Madagascar, who had translated the Bible into the Malagasy language.

1965 - Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. leads more than three thousand civil rights demonstrators on a march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. By the time they reach their destination four days later, the number of protesters will have swelled to 25,000.

1994 - The people of Augusta, Georgia, dedicate a monument on Green Street to the memory of Christian philanthropist Emily Harvey Thomas Tubman.

– Source: Christian History Institute