Today In History For March 25th

Today is Friday, March 25, the 84th day of 2011. There are 281 days left in the year.

In 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

In 1634, English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore arrived in present-day Maryland.

Five years ago: In Los Angeles, half a million people marched to protest federal legislation to make illegal immigration a felony and build more walls along the border.