U.S. nuclear reactor begins operating, Antarctica. 40,000 demonstrate against uranium enrichment plant, Almelo, Netherlands. Free black Crispus Attucks becomes first American killed in revolution. Birth of Rosa Luxemburg, Jewish Polish leader in German Socialist and anti-war movements. U.S. Marines land in China.
Mexican troops defend their country's abolitionist constitution and defeat foreign slaveholders.
San Antonio, Texas. Remember the Alamo. Dred Scott decision by U.S. Supreme Court opens federal territory to slavery and denies citizenship to blacks. Roosevelt closes all U.S. banks. They are brutally beaten by police officers while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.