CAMILLE BOHANNON

It was on this day in 1953.

Police photos of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

This is a view of the death chamber and electric chair in Sing Sing
prison in Ossining where the Rosenbergs were executed.

The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington on
this day in 1910. According to the Library of Congress, a woman
who was raised by her father heard a sermon about Mother’s Day
and decided fathers should be recognized as well.

The emancipation of slaves was proclaimed in Texas
on this day in 1865.

British Indian novelist and essayist Sir Ahmed Salman
Rushdie is 71 years old today.

Paula Julie Abdul is a dancer, choreographer, singer,
songwriter, actress, and television personality. She is
56 years young today.

Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, Ryan Seacrest on
TV’s American Idol.

TIM MAGUIRE

On this day in 1859, Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA
(now located in West Virginia).

During the French Revolution on this day in 1793, Queen Marie Antoinette (below) was beheaded after being convicted of treason.

Poland’s Karol Josef Wojtyla was elected Pope John Paul II
on this day in 1978.

On Friday, October 16, 1998, police from Britain’s Scotland
Yard entered a room in a small, private hospital in London
and arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
Ugarte who was recovering from back surgery.

On this day in 1987, rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned
well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. She was trapped for 58 hours.

Jessica McClure Morales turned 31 in March.

James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997)

Michener was the author of more than 40 books, most of which were
fictional, family sagas. His first book was adapted as the popular
Broadway musical South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein.

Michener’s typewriter at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.