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		Jan. 15: Martin Luther King Jr. is born to the Rev. Martin Luther King and Alberta Williams King in Atlanta.	MLK graduates from Morehouse College and becomes an ordained Baptist minister.	MLK attends a lecture by Dr. Mordecai Johnson on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and is inspired to delve deeper in the Indian social philosopher's teachings.	MLK graduates from Crozer Theological Seminary with a bachelor of divinity degree. He is class valedictorian. He begins doctoral studies at Boston University.	June 18: MLK marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Ala.	MLK becomes the 20th pastor of the Dexter Avenue Church in Montgomery.	MLK receives his Ph.D. from Boston University.	Nov. 17: The Kings' first child, Yolanda Denise (Yoki), is born in November.	Dec. 1: Rosa Parks is arrested for failing to give up a bus seat to a white man.	MLK is elected president of the newly formed Montgomery Improve- ment Association and assumes leadership of the bus boycott, which will last 381 days.	The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a district court ruling that racial segregation on Alabama's city bus lines is unconstitutional.	The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded and King is elected its president. The Civil Rights Commission is created. The Kings' second child, Martin Luther III, is born.	National Guardsmen escort nine black students to a white school in Little Rock, Ark.	MLK publishes "Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story." He is stabbed in the chest during a book signing in Harlem.	Sept. 9: The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is signed into law by President Eisenhower.	MLK travels to India to study Gandhi's non-violence techniques.	The 1960 Civil Rights Act is signed. MLK is acquitted on tax evasion charges by an all-white jury in Montgomery. During a sit-in in Atlanta, MLK is arrested for trespassing.	The Kings have a third child, Dexter Scott. MLK conducts a demonstration in Albany, Ga., to desegregate public facilities. He is arrested for parading without a permit.	Two are killed when James Meredith attempts to enroll at the University of Mississippi.	King meets with JFK to urge support for civil rights.	MLK delivers the "I Have A Dream" speech on the front steps of the Lincoln Memorial with 250,000 people in attendance.	MLK is named Time magazine's Man Of The Year.	MLK witnesses the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.	Riots break out in Harlem after a 15-year-old black boy is shot by an off-duty police officer.	At age 35, MLK wins the Nobel Peace Prize.	Feb. 21: Malcolm X is killed.	More than 3,000 protest marchers leave Selma for a march to Montgomery. Along the way another 25,000 join.	Riots break out in Watts and 35 people die.	MLK rents an apartment in a Chicago ghetto. He is pelted with stones at a march in Chicago. The Supreme Court rules that poll taxes are unconstitutional.	The 1967 Civil Rights Act fails to pass, but will pass in 1968. MLK publishes his final book, "Where Do We Go From Here?" in Jamaica. Alabama is ordered to desegregate schools.	Riots in Newark, N.J., lead to 27 deaths and 725 injuries.	Carl Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city.	MLK delivers his last speech, "I've Been To The Mountain Top," at Memphis Masonic Temple.	April 4: MLK is assassinated by a sniper at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He dies moments later in St. Joseph's Hospital from a gunshot to the neck.	James Earl Ray is arrested, convicted and sentenced to 99 years in prison.