As we speak is Thursday, June 19, the a hundred and seventieth day of 2025. There are 195 days left within the 12 months. That is Juneteenth.
As we speak in historical past:
On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with information that the Civil Struggle was over and that every one remaining enslaved folks in Texas had been free — an occasion now celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth.
Additionally on this date:
In 1910, the first-ever Father’s Day in the US was celebrated in Spokane, Washington. (President Richard Nixon would make Father’s Day a federally acknowledged annual statement by way of a proclamation in 1972.)
In 1953, Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his spouse, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to cross U.S. atomic secrets and techniques to the Soviet Union, had been executed at Sing Sing Jail in Ossining, New York; they had been the primary American civilians to be executed for espionage.
In 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova accomplished her historic flight as the primary girl in area, touchdown safely by parachute to conclude the Vostok 6 mission.
In 1964, the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was accepted by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a prolonged filibuster.
In 1975, former Chicago organized crime boss Sam Giancana was shot to loss of life within the basement of his residence in Oak Park, Illinois; the killing has by no means been solved.
In 1986, College of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, the primary draft decide of the Boston Celtics two days earlier, suffered a deadly cocaine-induced seizure.
In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court docket, within the case Edwards v. Aguillard, struck down a Louisiana legislation requiring any public college instructing the idea of evolution to show creation science as effectively.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Corridor of Fame auto racer Shirley Muldowney is 85.
- Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is 80.
- Writer Tobias Wolff is 80.
- Writer Salman Rushdie is 78.
- Actor Phylicia Rashad is 77.
- Rock singer Ann Wilson (Coronary heart) is 75.
- Actor Kathleen Turner is 71.
- Singer-choreographer-TV persona Paula Abdul is 63.
- TV host Lara Spencer is 56.
- Actor Jean Dujardin is 53.
- Actor Robin Tunney is 53.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Dirk Nowitzki is 47.
- Actor Zoe Saldaña is 47.
- Rapper Macklemore is 42.
- Actor Paul Dano is 41.
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