NWS Lightning Safety Victims and Medical Info
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March 7, 2018 12:18 pm Update
March 30 is a second Blue Moon of the Year. 🌕
The next time we have two Blue Moons in a year is 2037.
Civil Rights march ends as ‘Bloody Sunday,’ March 7, 1965
"On this day in 1965, known in history as “Bloody Sunday,” some 600 people began a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to the state Capitol in Montgomery. They were commemorating the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who had been shot on Feb. 18 by a state trooper while trying to protect his mother during a civil rights demonstration."
"After the marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Selma’s outskirts, white state troopers assaulted them, knocking many to the ground and beating them with nightsticks. Another detachment of troopers fired tear gas while mounted troopers charged the marchers. In all, 17 marchers were hospitalized and 50 treated for lesser injuries."