Dred Scott Decision

Learning About Our History

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Today is  Day of The Dude,  National Frozen Food Day, and Oreo Cookie Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Dred Scott Decision
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ON THIS DATE

• 1836 - The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
• 1853 - Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premiered in Venice, Italy.
• 1857 -  In its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.
• 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1899- Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• 1912 - Oreo sandwich cookies are introduced by the National Biscuit Co.
• 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
• 1944 - Bombers staged the first American raid on Berlin during World War II.
• 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1340 - English military leader and statesman John of Gaunt
• 1475 - Painter and sculptor Michelangelo
• 1619 - French author Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1806 - English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
• 1844 - Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
• 1884 - Norwegian tennis player Molla Mallory
• 1906 - Actor Lou Costello
• 1937 - Russian pilot and astronaut Valentina Tereshkova,
• 1947 - Actor, director, producer Rob Reiner
• 1953 - Astronomer Carolyn Porco
• 1972 - Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal

SONGS OF THE DAY 

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumble Bee - LISTEN

THEME:  Dred Scott Decision

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and Resource Materials - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - What Was the Dred Scott Decision? - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - A More Perfect Union - Dred Scott Case - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Split in Two: The Dred Scott Decision - 1857 -VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Almanac -  Dred Scott -VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists -The Dred Scott Decision - VIEW and DO

Watch 

• 8-9 am NH WORLD  - Unladylike2020: American Masters *
• 9-10 am  NH WORLD - The Vote: American Experience - Part One *
• 10-11 am NH WORLD - The Vote: American Experience - Part Two *
• 12-1:30 pm NH WORLD - Independent Lens - Unrest
• 1:30-2 pm NH WORLD - Charlotte Mansfield: A Woman Photographer *
• 2-3 pm NH WORLD - Unladylike2020: American Masters *
• 3-5 pm NH WORLD - Jazz - The Adventure (1955-1960)

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