This Day In History
- 1603 Merga Bien arrested for witchcraft in Fulda, Germany, part of Fulda witch trials. She and about 250 people later burned at the stake.
- Arts
- 1971 Carole King earned her first #1 single as a performer with the double-sided hit “It’s Too Late/I Feel The Earth Move.”
- Espionage
- 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and proclaimed their innocence right up to the time of their deaths, by the electric chair. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day.
- Writing
- 2019 Oklahoma writer Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress.
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