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ON THIS DAY: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage (1953)

On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg—a married couple from New York City—were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in...

ON THIS DAY: Churchill delivers ‘finest hour’ speech (1940)

On this day in 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the British House of Commons and delivered one of the most stirring speeches of the...

ON THIS DAY: Stravinsky was born (1882)

On 17 June 1882, in a town near Saint Petersburg, Igor Stravinsky was born — a composer who would go on to redefine the...

ON THIS DAY: the first woman in space (1963)

On 16 June 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space- launching aboard Vostok 6 and orbiting Earth 48 times over...

ON THIS DAY: Alexander the Great dies at 32 (323 BC)

The boy who conquered the known world- and then kept going On 13 June 323 BC, Alexander the Great died in Babylon at just 32....