历史上的今天-Today in History 2011-06-19
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June 19th, 1953Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. They were convicted of conspiring1 to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet2 Union, a case that gripped America early in the Cold War.
1910,Father's Day is
celebrated3 for the first time in the United States in Spokane, Washington.
1865,In Galveston, Texas, the event behind the celebration known as “Juneteenth”. Union troops arrive with news that America's Civil War is over, and that all slaves in the defeated South are free.
1947,“All the things that artist writers try to do is to push against frontiers. ” Salman Rushdie, author of the novel “The Satanic Verses”, is born in Mumbai, India. Rushdie spent a decade in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered Muslims to kill him, because his book allegedly insulted Islam.
1986,Len
Bias4, the University of Maryland basketball star, suffers a fatal
cocaine5 induced
seizure6. It happens just days after the Boston Celtics choose him as their first pick in the NBA's draft.
And 1962,Straight up now tell meDo you really want to love me forever (oh oh oh)Singer and dancer Paula Abdul, one of the judges on Fox TV's talent show “American Idol”, is born in San Fernando, California.
Today in History, June 19th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.
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