This Day In History-February 5th
February 5, 2009 by Brad
Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime in Jackson, Mississippi.
On this day in history 1917 Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson’s veto.
FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices—”packing” the court in 1937.
Under international pressure, three of Switzerland’s biggest banks created a fund worth 100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims and their families on this day in history 1997.
