On Feb. 5, 1937,

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices; critics accused Roosevelt of attempting to "pack" the nation's highest court. (The proposal failed in Congress.)

In 1631,

the co-founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and his wife, Mary, arrived in Boston from England.

In 1762,

an estimated 30,000 Sikhs were slain by Muslims in Punjab in present-day India.