The Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War
Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didn't take his seat until 1932
In September, 1971, 43 peole were killed during a 4-day riot at this New York prison
This country's King Louis IV was nicknamed "Louis from Overseas" because he was raised in England
William Laud, an archbishop of this who opposed the Puritans, was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645
The first of this Mongol conqueror's many wives was Borte, to whom he was betrothed as a child
Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony
The Portuguese captured Muscat, now the capital of this sultanate, c. 1508 but were driven out in 1650
In 1982 this country's president Jose Lopez Portillo devalued the peso & nationalized the banks
On July 5, 1945 he announced that "The entire Philippine Islands are now liberated"