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U.S. Navy sailors make final checks to a weapon mounted on the USS Stockdale ahead of joint maneuvers with the Jordanian Navy in the Gulf of Aqaba, Jordan as part of Eager Lion, a multinational military exercise, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Under the watchful eye of stern-faced American advisers, hundreds of U.S.-trained Jordanian soldiers are holding war games that could eventually form the basis of an assault in Syria. There is fear of spillover from the Syrian war in this U.S.-allied kingdom, and the potential for a Jordanian role in securing Syria's chemical stockpiles should Bashar Assad's regime lose control. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Correction: Jordan-Syria-War Games storyCorrection: Jordan-Syria-War Games story
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House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Budget office view boosts Senate immigration billIn boost for Senate immigration bill, budget office says it would reduce deficit by billions
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FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012  file photo of  Britain's Prince William stand next to his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge as she leaves the King Edward VII hospital in central London. With Prince William and the former Kate Middleton expecting their first child in mid-July _ and much of the world interested in the birth of a future monarch _ officials at Clarence House have released some of the couple’s plans, although many details are still being kept private. Kate has made several public appearances recently but is expected to keep a low profile in the final weeks of her pregnancy.  (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
Palace sheds some light on Kate's baby plansPalace officials shed some light on Kate and William's baby plans as royal birth nears
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U.S. President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the German Chancellery on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in Berlin. Obama will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in U.S. and Russian arsenals, a senior administration official said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Obama warns EU over high youth unemploymentObama warns of lost generation due to high youth unemployment in Europe
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FILE - This July 24, 2009 file photo shows dancers Karina Smirnoff, left, and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, during a press preview for the Broadway ballroom dance show "Burn The Floor"  in New York. “Dancing with the Stars” duo Smirnoff and Chmerkovskiy have hopped aboard the Broadway-bound “Forever Tango.” Producers said Wednesday, July 19, 2013, the pair will perform in the show at the Walter Kerr Theatre from July 9-28. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)
'Dancing with the Stars' pros join 'Forever Tango''Dancing with the Stars' pros join Broadway's revival of 'Forever Tango'
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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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