In 1960, twelve students were arrested and charged with trespassing after staging a sit-in protest at Hooper’s Restaurant on Charles and Fayette streets. The decision was appealed by the students’ team of lawyers including Juanita Jackson Mitchell and Thurgood Marshall, and the case became known as Bell v. Maryland since Robert M. Bell’s name came first alphabetically. Five years later, the students’ convictions were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Bell (pictured above) went on to become the first African-American to serve as Chief Judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals. (Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun photo, 2013)
1856: The Republican Party opened its first national convention, in Philadelphia’s Music Fund Hall.
1876: In the Battle of Rosebud Creek, Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne forces led by Crazy Horse repelled U.S. troops, eight days before joining Sitting Bull to defeat Gen. George Custer at Little Big Horn.
1885: The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
Compiled by Laura Lefavor and Paul McCardell.
