In 1951, An American electrical engineer Julius Rosenberg, 33, and his 35-year-old wife, Ethel were found guilty by New York’s Federal Court of passing atomic secrets to the Russians. In pronouncing guilty verdicts, Judge Kaufman, presiding over the trial, said: "That citizens should lend themselves to the destruction of their own country by the most destructive weapon known is so shocking that I cannot find words to describe the loathsome offence."
Also on this day in 1042, Edward the Confessor became King. Edward was the son of King Ethelred II (the Unready) and Emma, the daughter of Richard II of Normandy. Much of his reign was peaceful and prosperous. Skirmishes with the Scots and Welsh were only occasional - something of a new turn of events.
Also on this day in 1042, Edward the Confessor became King. Edward was the son of King Ethelred II (the Unready) and Emma, the daughter of Richard II of Normandy. Much of his reign was peaceful and prosperous. Skirmishes with the Scots and Welsh were only occasional - something of a new turn of events.
A surprising thing about the 30th of March throughout history is that apart from the odd war, occasional beheadings, famines, plagues, invasions, commencement of Crusades, the death of Robin Hood and the birth of William Shakespeare, nothing much happened for 649 years until, in order to break the monotony, George I, Elector of Hanover became the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain as a result of the Act of Settlement of 1701. George I did a great deal of skirmishing with the Scots in order to suppress the Jacobite rebellion. On the other hand, George I declined various invitations to skirmish with the Welsh. Into each life some rain must fall.
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