THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, March 25, the 85th day of 2020. There are 281 days left in the year.

IN THE NATION

1965: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 people to the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery after a fiveday march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. Later that day, civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit homemaker, was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen.

IN THE WORLD

2010: Osama bin Laden threatened in a new message to kill any Americans al-Qaeda captured if the U.S. executed Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, or other al-Qaeda suspects.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

Movie reviewer Gene Shalit is 94. Former astronaut James Lovell is 92. Feminist activist and author Gloria Steinem is 86. Singer Anita Bryant is 80. Actor Paul Michael Glaser is 77. Singer Sir Elton John is 73. Rock musician Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet) is 60. Actress Marcia Cross is 58. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is 55. Baseball Hall of Famer Tom Glavine is 54. Actor Lee Pace is 41. Former auto racing star Danica Patrick is 38. Rapper Big Sean is 32.