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Today in History

On June 19, 1953,

Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.

In 1862,

Congress passed, and President Abraham Lincoln signed, a measure abolishing slavery in U.S. territories.

In 1865,

Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free.

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