The US & Canada agreed to divert the Niagara River to protect the Niagara Falls from eroding.
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Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy gave a speech announcing that he was running for US President.
Martin Luther King Jr. pushed hard to encourage the registration of black voters in Selma.
Mercurius became Pope John II, making him the first pope to change their name after attaining popehood.
A bus plunged 400ft from a cliff in Malshej Ghat, India, killing thirty people.
The Alemanni crossed the frozen Rhine in large numbers and invaded the Roman Empire.