Taiwan ~ "Lantern Festival" Join the Thousands of visitors at the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei


1811 ~ After George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later George IV.


1917 ~ Congress passed the Immigration Act, which restricted Asian immigration, over President Wilson's veto.


Also 1917 ~ Mexico adopted its present constitution.


1937 ~ FDR proposed increasing the number of Supreme Court justices—"packing" the court.


1994 ~ Byron De La Beckwith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Medgar Evers, 30 years after the crime in Jackson, Mississippi.


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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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind