The US & Canada agreed to divert the Niagara River to protect the Niagara Falls from eroding.
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Martin Luther King Jr. pushed hard to encourage the registration of black voters in Selma.
Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy gave a speech announcing that he was running for US President.
The mapping of Mars' surface began.
The Duquesne Spy Ring, a Nazi German espionage network, was sentenced to prison.
A patent was awarded to Willis Carrier, which gave us the world’s first Air Conditioner.