Dred Scott Decision - March 6
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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- 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.
- 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, and producer Rob Reiner
- 1953 - Astronomer Carolyn Porco
- 1972 - Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal
- 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? (2:00) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - iCivics - Dred Scott v. Sanford Mini Lesson Plan - DO
- Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Primary Source Documents - Dred Scott v. Sanford -READ and VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - National Archives - Milestone Documents - Dred Scott v. Sanford - READ and VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - A More Perfect Union - Dred Scott Case (5:18) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Split in Two: The Dred Scott Decision - 1857 (8:39) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Almanac - Dred Scott (6:52) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - The Dred Scott Decision (2:57) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12 - Oyez - Dred Scott v. Sanford - READ
- Grades 9-12 - Crash Course - The Dred Scott Decision (11:35) - VIEW
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