JUNE 19
1953:Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility after being convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. They leave behind two young sons.
1846: In only four innings, the New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbockers by a score of 23-1 in the first recorded game of baseball, played in Hoboken, N.J. A year earlier, Alexander Cartwright of the Knickerbockers had written down the 20 rules governing official "base ball" play.
1865: Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops inform the slaves of Galveston, Texas, that they are free, two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. June 19 is still celebrated as the holiday Juneteenth in 39 states and the District of Columbia.
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