1910,Father's Day is celebrated for the first time in the United States in Spokane, Washington.

1865,In Galveston, Texas, the event behind the celebration known as “Juneteenth”. Union troops arrive with news that America's Civil War is over, and that all slaves in the defeated South are free.

1947,“All the things that artist writers try to do is to push against frontiers. ” Salman Rushdie, author of the novel “The Satanic Verses”, is born in Mumbai, India. Rushdie spent a decade in hiding after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered Muslims to kill him, because his book allegedly insulted Islam.

1986,Len Bias, the University of Maryland basketball star, suffers a fatal cocaine induced seizure. It happens just days after the Boston Celtics choose him as their first pick in the NBA's draft.

And 1962,Straight up now tell meDo you really want to love me forever (oh oh oh)Singer and dancer Paula Abdul, one of the judges on Fox TV's talent show “American Idol”, is born in San Fernando, California.

Today in History, June 19th, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.