It was on this day in 1948 that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that deed restrictions which prohibited the sale of real estate to minorities were legally unenforceable. Three years previously a family by the name of Shelly purchased a house in St. Louis. A neighbor (who lived about 10 blocks away) by the name of Kraemer was offended/scared/upset/something-or-other about the color of this family’s skin and thus sued to keep them from living there. The basis for the lawsuit was a covenant on the property that was put in place in 1911 which stated that “people of the Negro or Mongolian Race” were not allowed to own the house. The State Supreme Court ruled that it was a private contract and thus allowed; but the Supremes stated that while the restriction itself wasn’t actually illegal itself, don’t ask the courts to step in and enforce ’em.
The first event that Wiki lists for happening on this day is “1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I” and the latest is “2006 – Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia.”
A few other things that also happened are:
1802 – Washington, DC is incorporated as a city.
1921 – The first state sales tax initiated by West Virgina.
1960 – The Fantasticks opens in NYC. It continues on for 17,161 more performances over the next 42 years, making it the longest-running musical of all time.
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Wishes for a happy birthday go out to Christopher Cross, Ann B. Davis, Frankie Valli, and Pete Seeger.