Today In History

Sat., June 19, 1999

In 1586: English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.

In 1862: Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories.

In 1910: Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane.

In 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison.

In 1961: The Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland’s constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God.

In 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space.

In 1987: The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism science as well.

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