Associated Press On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y. They had been convicted of conspiring…
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Associated Press On June 18, 1940, with the World War II Battle of Britain looming, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill urged his countrymen to conduct…
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Associated Press On June 17, 1972, President Richard Nixon’s downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex.…
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Associated Press On June 16, 1858, Accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be…
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Associated Press On June 15, 1215, England’s King John put his seal to the Magna Carta at Runnymede, granting his barons more liberty. On…
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Associated Press On June 12, 1987, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, President Ronald Reagan publicly challenged Soviet leader Mikhail S.…
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Associated Press On June 11, 2004, Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was laid to rest in California following a state…
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Associated Press On June 10, 1967, the Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. On this date in:…
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Associated Press On June 9, 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army hearings over McCarthy’s attack on a…
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Associated Press On June 8, 1982, in the first speech by an American president to a joint session of the British Parliament, President Ronald Reagan…
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