Happy Martin Luther King Day 2010 - His Journey #martinlutherking #googlemaps

Today is Martin Luther King Day in United States. Its a federal holiday in US celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday and occurs on the 3rd Monday of January.

Here's a "Martin Luther King" journey map which I created last year. It maps out important events in Martin Luther King's life. The map automatically moves on to the next event in Rev. King's life. You can however manually move forward/back by clicking on the arrows located at the bottom left on the map.

Martin Luther King - Timeline of Events

Martin Luther King was assassinated 40 years ago on April 4th, 1968. I have pieced together events in Martin Luther King's life on Google Maps. Source of my data was Wikipedia.

In the Google Maps Mashup I created, the location information for events pop up on Google Maps every 10 seconds. You can disable the "Auto Play" feature by clicking the "Disable/Pause" button.