In 1634, the first English colonists arrived at St. Clement’s Island in Maryland to establish the settlement of St. Mary’s.
In 1807, the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
In 1965, a 50-mile civil rights march led by Martin Luther King Jr., which began four days earlier in Selma, Alabama, ended in Montgomery.
In 1994, the United States wit…