70-66: The Last Days of Martin Luther King Jr.
70: WWI: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat,killing 1,198. Two years later, in 1917, the U.S. declares war on Germany (they would later declare war on Austria-Hungary)ft. Historian, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, & Author ofThe First World War, Sir Hew Strachan.
69: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “Mountaintop Speech”. The next day, he is shot and killed by James Earl Ray in Memphis, TN.ft. Chair of the Center for the American Dream at the AFPI, Dr. Alveda King, & Member of the New Orleans Four & Founder of the TEP Center, Dr. Leona Tate.
68: The first billion-dollar corporation, U.S. Steel, is incorporated by J.P. Morgan
67: Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan, a rebuilding of post-WWII Europe; it is signed by President Truman the next year
66: The Mexican-American War: The Battle of the Alamo and the ensuing response led to Texas declaring independence from Mexico
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