1/6 Police investigate the home of Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP, who was shot to death by a sniper early June 12, 1963, outside his home in Jackson, Miss. On February 5, 1994, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of the 1963 killing of Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers. UPI File Photo Feb. 05 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1631, British clergyman Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island, arrived in Salem, Mass., seeking religious freedom. Advertisement In 1918, a German U-boat torpedoed the SS Tuscania, sinking the liner as...