TV actress Melissa McBride

Events in 1965 and 23-5

Events in US in the birth year of Melissa McBride

• Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 others arrested in Selma, Ala., during demonstrations against voter-registration rules (Feb. 1). Background: Civil Rights
• Malcolm X, black-nationalist leader, shot to death at Harlem rally (Feb. 21).
• Blacks riot for six days in Watts section of Los Angeles: 34 dead, over 1,000 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested (Aug. 11-16).

Birthday Melissa McBride (23-5) in history

• Day 23-5 year 1430: The heroic French warrior Joanna of Arc was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the British.
• Day 23-5 year 1788: South Carolina became the 8th state in United States.
• Day 23-5 year 1830: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began the first passenger service in the United States.
• Day 23-5 year 1873: The North West Mounted Police force was formed in Canada. It would later be known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• Day 23-5 year 1911: The New York Public Library, at the time the largest marble structure ever built in the United States, was dedicated by President Taft in New York City after 16 years of construction.
• Day 23-5 year 1934: Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow) were killed in a police shootout.
• Day 23-5 year 1945: Heinrich Himmler, head of Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo, committed suicide while in prison.
• Day 23-5 year 1949: The German Federal Republic came into existence.
• Day 23-5 year 1997: Moderate Mohammad Khatami was elected president of Iran.