June 19th, 1953Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. They were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, a case that gripped America early in the Cold W
June 17th, 1972. One of Americas greatest political scandals begins to unfold in Washington D.C. 5 burglars are arrested inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex. Larry O'Brien at the time the chairman of the DNC
May 31st, 1889The Johnstown flood swept people on the ground; the Johnstown flood washed away the townIn one of America's worst natural disasters, water sweeps through Johnstown, Pennsylvania after a dam breaks. The flood kills more than 22 hundred p
June 15th, 1215. In Runnymede, England, King John signs the Magna Carta, or Great Charter, granting liberties to his barons. The document shapes concepts of democracy and constitutional law around the world for centuries to come. 1904. In New York Ci
May 12th 1949The Soviet Union announces an end to its blockade of Berlin, one of the first major crises of the Cold War. Our reporter from the US Armed Forces Radio Network is on the scene and then divided Germany city. The first vehicles are going t
June 6th, 1944. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandie, France, in the D-Day invasion of WWII. Commanding the massive operation General Dwight Eisenhower who tells the troops: You are about to embark upon the great crusade towards which we have
June 10th, 1967. In the Mideast, the Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a cease-fire mediated by the United Nations. During the war, Israel seized the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip an
June 11th, 1963Alabama governor George Wallace takes a symbolic stand against racial immigration at the University of Alabama. He blocks a doorway on campus, defining a federal court order, allowing two black students to enroll at the school. I deem
May 29th 1953, Clemens Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norkay become the first to reach the top of the Mount Everest in Asias Himalayas. Years later, Hillary says he would not have made to the summit of the worlds highest peak without his partner. Teamwor
June 9th 1954On Capitol Hill, US Army counsel Joseph Welch confronts Senator Joseph McCarthy over his tactics in fighting Communist version during the Cold War. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?It's t
June 21st, 1964In my mind, those three are on my mind, so I ask those killers, can you sleep again, those three are on my mind. In Philadelphia, Mississippi, three civil rights workers disappear while trying to help blacks register to vote. Michael S
June 22nd, 1940. France falls to Nazi Germany during WWII, forced to sign an armistice 8 days after German troops overrun Paris. On the same day a year later, the Nazis invade the Soviet Union, a move that proves disastrous for Adolf Hitlers Third Re
June 24th, 1948. An early Cold War crisis as the Soviet Union cuts off all land and water routes between West Germany and whats then West Berlin. Its an attempt to force the United States and its western allies to abandon the city amid Soviet expansi
June 25th 1950 In Asia, war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the non-communist South. United States soon joins the fighting on the side of South Korea. President Harry Truman: Korea is a small county, thous
June 29th 1972In Washington, the US Supreme Court effectively voids state death penalty laws with its decision in Furman vs. Georgia. The Court rules against how states are administering the death penalty at the time, calling their laws arbitrary and
June 27th, 1950President Harry Truman orders American air and naval forces into the Korean War, on the side of South Korea. That happens after the United Nations urges its members to help repel communist North Korea's invasion of the non-communist So
July 1st, 1863. The bloodiest battle of Americas Civil War begins between Union and Confederate forces in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1946. The worlds first peacetime test of nuclear weapon. The United States explodes the 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bi
July 4th, 1776 In Philadelphia, the birth of the United States of America, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming Britain's 13 colonies to be free. 1826,Former Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson each die
July 5th, 1954. Well, that's all right mama, that's all right for you, that's all right to mama, just anyway you do...A chapter during the dawn of Rock and Roll takes place at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Thats where Elvis Presley records the s
July 6th, 1957. They say a hot day is nice. And I've been working like a dogIn Liverpool, England, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, both then in their teens meet for the first time. Just years later, they along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, ch
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