On this date in 1999, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Dawn Witherspoon, a white supremacist, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for her role in the robbing and beating of a Hollywood, Florida, adult video store owner who was Jewish on March 29, 1998. Angela D. King, 26 (who served a prison sentence at the Lowell Correctional Institute and was released on June 24, 2005 giving a Woodsville, Alabama address upon her release), Raymond Leone, 18 (who served a prison sentence and was released on August 26, 2002 giving a Lewistown, Illinois address upon his release), and Donald M. Hansard, 24 (who served a prison sentence and was released on March 4, 2003), were members of the neo-Nazi hate group, the World Church of the Creator, and were also convicted in the attack.

In Annapolis, Maryland, on this date in 2008, the Maryland House of Delegates voted 114 to 19 to add nooses and swastikas as hate symbols, making it a crime to place the symbols of racial hate anywhere besides one's own property, if the intent is to intimidate. The 19 opponents were all Republicans.