Birthdays

Oliver Brown
Turns 18 on this date

Pardee Butler
Turns 41 on this date

David Davis
Turns 42 on this date

James Montesquieu Hopkins
Turns 46 on this date

Christian Philip Humrich
Turns 26 on this date

Julia Louisa Hardy Lovejoy
Turns 45 on this date

Abraham J. Quamony
Turns 20 on this date

Felix Huston Robertson
Turns 18 on this date

Amasa Leland Stanford
Turns 33 on this date
Events
Legal/Political | The Senate of the United States is sitting in a ten day special session in Washington, DC |
03/05/1857 to 03/13/1857 |
Documents
Newspaper | Boston (MA) Herald, “The Dred Scott Case,” March 9, 1857 | 03/09/1857 |
Newspaper | New York Herald, "The Decision in the Dred Scott," March 9, 1857 | 03/09/1857 |
Newspaper | New York Times, "From Washington," March 9, 1857 | 03/09/1857 |