1623 – Scientist – philosopher Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
1856 – Author Elbert Hubbard (A Message to Garcia, Little Journeys) was born in Bloomington, IL.
1865 – Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect, nearly 3 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued it, and all slaves in the state of Texas were free. The event is now recognized and celebrated in Texas as “Juneteenth.”
1867 – Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, installed as emperor of México by French Emperor Napoleon III in 1864, was executed on the orders of Benito Juarez, president of the Mexican Republic.
1910 – The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington; an idea credited to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd.
1911 – The first motion-picture censorship board was established in Pennsylvania.
1934 – The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, NY, two years after being convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets.
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