THIS DAY @ LAW

Federal Housing Act passed

On July 15, 1949, Congress passed the Federal Housing Act to fund slum-clearance and low-rent public housing projects.

Learn more about the history of federal housing policy.

Murders of Daniel Pearl sentenced to death in Pakistan

On July 15, 2002, a court in Pakistan sentenced Ahmend Omar Saeed Sheikh and three accomplices to death for the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Read selected stories by Daniel Pearl from the The Wall Street Journal.