The country's first high-level friendly visitor after the coup was Li Zhaoxing, China's foreign minister, on March 31st, and the king is to visit China for a regional forum later this month.
And on that August day in 1963, he joined Dr. King at the March on Washington.
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One hundred years later, Americans from all corners of the country, representing every race and religion, came together under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to peacefully march through the streets of our capital and call for equality under the law for all citizens.
In 1975, Prince Feisal Musaid was publicly beheaded in Riyadh for the assassination of Saudi King Feisal on March 25.
This year is the 50th anniversary of King's march on Washington.
And I think it's important to remember that, in the march on Washington, where Dr. King always talks about -- or it's always repeated, the dream speech that is so famous -- that march was for jobs, as well as justice.
In 1975, King Hassan launched the "Green March" with 350, 000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran crossing into Western Sahara.
When most folks think about the march, too much focus is on the "I Have a Dream" portion of King's speech and not the top two-thirds, which was a condemnation of the economic policies that stifled black growth in America.
Today, nearly half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr. led the historic March on Washington for equality, tens of thousands came to the National Mall in Washington, D.
On January 1st, we observed the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and this August will mark 50 years since the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1963, when he was nineteen, he and his mother attended the civil-rights march on Washington organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the last day of the march, Liuzzo joined the 3, 200 people walking into Montgomery for a rousing rally capped by a speech by King.
To publicise their denial in the South, Martin Luther King led a 50-mile march through Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.
In March, Burger King kicked off its "Cut the Rope: Time Travel" promotion, delivering a toy Om Nom in 17 million kids' meals.
In August 1963, Martin Luther King organised a march on Washington which became the largest protest rally in American history attracting more than 250, 000 demonstrators.
Hamer's stand inspired Dr. King's march in Selma, which brought about the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Ann Pewter, 74, from Tavistock, Devon, died at the King Harry Ferry crossing point on the River Fal on 20 March.
When Stephen King, a horror writer, posted a novella on the Internet in March this year, some 400, 000 people downloaded it within the first 24 hours.
On March 5th, following a visit from King Albert II of Belgium, the European Commission said that in its view Renault had broken two European directives in announcing the decision before consulting workers' representatives, including an international works council.
Martin, of the Department of War Studies at King's College London, in an interview in March.
In one section, long ear-lobed Khmer soldiers bearing spears and shields march over a battlefield under the command of their larger-than-life-sized king.
Residents and the borough council had rejected an incinerator plan for King's Lynn, which was then agreed by the county council on 7 March.
But King broke through to me when he said this: If the children of Birmingham march, Americans will see that what they are asking for is a better education.
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his thunderous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington 45 years ago this week, he did so before the largest political gathering the nation had ever seen.
Martin Luther King, Mr Gotlieb's biggest catch, was nabbed in 1964, before the Selma march had propelled him to international fame.
Dr. King responded by bringing many prominent civil rights leaders of the time to Selma to stage a march in support of the voter registration efforts.
We cannot duplicate King's eloquence, but his tirelessness, so visible that first day of the Selma march, can in some measure be ours as we struggle to maintain 21st century voter rights.
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