1994
Delayed justice
Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime in Jackson, Mississippi.
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1811
After George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.
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1917
Mexico adopted its present constitution.
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1937
FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices—"packing" the court.
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1997
Under international pressure, three of Switzerland's biggest banks created a fund worth 100 million Swiss francs for Holocaust victims and their families.
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