These days is Thursday, March 6, the sixty fifth day of 2025. There are 300 days left within the 12 months.
These days in historical past:
On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Superb Courtroom, within the Dred Scott v. Sandford choice, dominated 7-2 that Scott, an enslaved particular person, was once now not an American citizen and subsequently may now not sue for his freedom in Federal court docket; it additionally dominated that slavery may now not be banned from any Federal territory. The verdict deepened the nationwide divide over slavery within the years main as much as the Civil Warfare.
Additionally in this date:
In 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enroll in the Union as a slave state and Maine to enroll in as a loose state, whilst banning slavery within the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory.
In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell as Mexican forces led by way of Normal Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna stormed the castle after a 13-day siege; the struggle claimed the lives of the entire Texian defenders, together with William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett.
In 1869, chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented his thought of a periodic desk of components at a gathering of the Russian Chemical Society in St. Petersburg.
In 1912, Oreo cookies have been first presented by way of the Nationwide Biscuit Corporate (later referred to as Nabisco).
In 1951, the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on federal espionage fees started in New York.
In 1964, heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay took a brand new identify given to him by way of Country of Islam chief Elijah Muhammed: Muhammad Ali.
In 1970, a bomb being constructed within a Greenwich Village townhouse in New York by way of individuals of the Climate Underground militant leftist workforce by accident exploded, destroying the home and killing 3 workforce individuals.
In 1981, Walter Cronkite signed off for the closing time after just about twenty years because the anchor of “The CBS Night Information.”
These days’s birthdays:
- Former FBI and CIA director William Webster is 101.
- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is 99.
- Former Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is 88.
- Opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa is 81.
- Rock musician David Gilmour (Crimson Floyd) is 79.
- Filmmaker-actor Rob Reiner is 78.
- Actor-comedian Tom Arnold is 66.
- Actor-comedian D.L. Hughley is 62.
- Actor Connie Britton is 58.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Shaquille O’Neal is 53.
- Rapper-producer Tyler, the Author is 34.
- Actor Millicent Simmonds is 22.