On March 2, 1807, the U.S. Congress passes an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States… from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.” It would go into effect the following year.
Henry Dundas (1742 – 1811)
Dundas was among those who voted in favor of the abolition of the slave trade.
He was the trusted lieutenant of British of British prime minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18th century.
The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress on this day in 1850. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.
September 18, 1975, after crisscrossing the country with her captors– or conspirators–for more than a year, Patty Hearst, or “Tania,” as she called herself, was captured in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery. Despite her later claim that she had been brainwashed by the SLA, she was convicted on March 20, 1976, and sentenced to seven years in prison. Her prison sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter and she was released in February 1979. She later married her bodyguard. In 2001, she received a full pardon from President Bill Clinton.
Patty Hearst poses with a Symbionese Liberation Army poster.
On this day in 2001, Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., and later tested positive for anthrax, were sent to the New York Post and NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw.
The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress on this day in 1850. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.
On this day in 2001, Anthrax tainted letters were sent to the National Broadcasting System and The New York Post.
Gloved hands sorting through mail during 2001 anthrax scare.
On this day in 1975.
On this day in 1961, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld died along with 15 others in a plane crash in the African bush during a peace mission to the Congo.
The scattered wreckage of the DC6B plane that had carried Dag Hammarskjöld.
Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) (September 18, 1905 – April 15,1990)
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)
On this day in 1970, rock guitarist, and singer/songwriter, Jimi Hendrix died in his London apartment at the age of 27. The death was from an overdose of sleeping pills. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".
