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Associated Press
\n\"0619rosenbergsB\"<\/a>On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y. They had been convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.
\n1862 Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories.
\n1903 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig was born in New York City.
\n1910 Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash.
\n1917 During World War I, King George V changed the British royal family’s German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor.
\n1934 The Federal Communications Commission was created.
\n1961 The Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland’s constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God.
\n1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
\n1987 The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creation science as well.
\n1999 Britain’s Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England.
\n2000 The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.
\n2007 A truck bomb struck a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 87 people.
\n2008 Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it.<\/p>\n

Today’s Birthdays:
\nNobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi turns 70 years old today.
\nGena Rowlands, Actress, 85
\nSalman Rushdie, Author, 68
\nPhylicia Rashad, Actress (“The Cosby Show”), 67
\nAnn Wilson, Rock singer (Heart), 65
\nKathleen Turner, Actress, 61
\nPaula Abdul, Singer, TV personality (“American Idol”), 53
\nMichael Trucco, Actor (“Battlestar Galactica”), 45
\nJean Dujardin, Actor (“The Artist”), 43
\nRobin Tunney, Actress, 43
\nPoppy Montgomery, Actress, 40
\nZoe Saldana, Actress (“Avatar”), 37
\nLauren Lee Smith, Actress (“CSI”), 35
\nMacklemore, Rapper, 32
\nAtticus Shaffer, Actor (“The Middle”), 17
\nDallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki turns 37 years old today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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