TODAY IN HISTORY

1917

The U.S. Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, an act severely curtailing Asian immigration.

1922

The first edition of Reader's Digest was published.

1971

Apollo 14astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell stepped onto the surface of the moon in the first of two lunar excursions.

1994

White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Mississippi, of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963 and immediately was sentenced to life in prison. (Beckwith died Jan. 21, 2001, at age 80.)