Volume 13 , Issue 25

This Day In History (June 19 & 20)

On June 20, 1905, Lillian Hellman, the American playwright and screenwriter, was born. Following her death on June 30, 1984, her obituary appeared in The Times.

On This Day . . .

• 1863 - West Virginia became the 35th state.
• 1893 - A jury in New Bedford, Mass., found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother.
• 1943 - Race-related rioting erupted in Detroit.
• 1948 - The TV variety series "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan debuted on CBS.
• 1963 - The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two superpowers.
• 1967 - Boxer Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted. (The conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.)
• 1975 - The movie "Jaws" was released.

On This Date (June 19) . . .

• 1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
• 1862 - Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories.
• 1903 - Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig was born in New York City.
• 1910 - Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash.
• 1917 - During World War I, King George V changed the British royal family's German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor.
• 1934 - The Federal Communications Commission was created.
• 1961 - The Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God.
• 1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

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