1857

Joseph Conrad (Novelist, “Heart of Darkness”)

Moses Walker (First African-American to play Major League Baseball)

William Howard Taft (former U.S. President)

Milton Snavely Hershey (Candy Manufacturer)

Clarence Darrow (Defense attorney at the Scopes Monkey Trial)

Tim Keefe (Major League Baseball player)

Britain’s Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada.

Dred Scott and family were freed by the owner Henry Blow, only 3 months after U.S. courts ruled against them in Dred Scott v. Sanford.

Baseball decided 9 innings per game and 9 players per team constitutes an official game.

In its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom

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