Today in History: June 19, Union troops arrive in Galveston on ‘Juneteenth’

At present is Thursday June the th day of There are days left in the year This is Juneteenth Currently in history On June Union troops arrived in Galveston Texas with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining enslaved people in Texas were free an event now celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth Also on this date In the first-ever Father s Day in the United States was celebrated in Spokane Washington President Richard Nixon would make Father s Day a federally recognized annual observation through a proclamation in Related Articles New York Daily News and other outlets ask judge to reject OpenAI effort to keep deleting records US resumes foreign participant visas but with social media demands Trump administration removing hotline utility tailored to LGBTQ youth in July New CDC advisers will skip certain expected topics and explore a target of antivaccine activists Federal Reserve leaves its key rate unchanged but sees two cuts this year In Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel convicted of conspiring to pass U S atomic secrets to the Soviet Union were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining New York they were the first American civilians to be executed for espionage In Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova completed her historic flight as the first woman in space landing safely by parachute to conclude the Vostok mission In the landmark Civil Rights Act of was approved by the U S Senate - after surviving a lengthy filibuster In former Chicago organized crime boss Sam Giancana was shot to death in the basement of his home in Oak Park Illinois the killing has never been solved In University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias the first draft pick of the Boston Celtics two days earlier suffered a fatal cocaine-induced seizure In the U S Supreme Court in the event Edwards v Aguillard struck down a Louisiana law requiring any general school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creation science as well Nowadays s Birthdays Hall of Fame auto racer Shirley Muldowney is Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is Author Tobias Wolff is Author Salman Rushdie is Actor Phylicia Rashad is Rock singer Ann Wilson Heart is Actor Kathleen Turner is Singer-choreographer-TV personality Paula Abdul is TV host Lara Spencer is Actor Jean Dujardin is Actor Robin Tunney is Basketball Hall of Famer Dirk Nowitzki is Actor Zoe Salda a is Rapper Macklemore is Actor Paul Dano is