1797 Joseph Story, a U.S. Supreme Court justice and Harvard law professor, was born in Marblehead, Mass. He served on the court from 1811 to 1845 and is best known for the Amistad decision, which involved the rebellion of Africans aboard a Spanish ship. The decision held the slaves could assert their freedom by use of force, and it authorized them to return home. 2001 One week after 9/11, letters containing anthrax were mailed from Trenton, N.J., to several news media offices and to two Democratic U.S. senators …