JUNE 19
1917:What’s in a name? During World War I, British King George V orders the royal family to change its surname from the German-sounding Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Within a month they will adopt a more English name—Windsor.
1865: Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Union troops in Galveston finally end Texas’s resistance to freeing slaves. June 19 is now recognized by 36 states and the District of Columbia as Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating African American heritage.
1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, are executed at New York’s Sing Sing prison.
1865: Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Union troops in Galveston finally end Texas’s resistance to freeing slaves. June 19 is now recognized by 36 states and the District of Columbia as Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating African American heritage.
1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, are executed at New York’s Sing Sing prison.
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