Martin Luther King Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta. An American Baptist minister and civil rights leader, King emerged as a national figure through the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 and became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Inspired by Gandhi and Christian teaching, he led nonviolent campaigns against racial segregation, such as the protests in Birmingham and the March on Washington in 1963, where he gave his I Have a Dream speech. His work helped bring about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Later he spoke against poverty and the Vietnam War. He was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
Before and after
- 1929Publication of A Farewell to Arms
- 1929Founding of La Liga
- 1929Construction of Manchester Airport
- 3 January 1929Birth of Sergio Leone
- 15 January 1929Birth of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 29 January 1929Publication of All Quiet on the Western Front
- 31 January 1929Birth of Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
- 11 February 1929Lateran Treaty
- 11 February 1929Founding of Vatican City
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- 11 December 1931Founding of Commonwealth of Nations
- 22 July 1944Founding of International Monetary Fund
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