Executed as Soviet Spy
Born Ethel Greenglass in Manhattan to Barnet Greenglass and Theresa Feit, she was an aspiring actress and singer but ended up a secretary. In 1936, she joined the Young Communist League where she met her future husband Julius.
The first census she appears on is the 1920 census (lines 69-73). She lived on Sheriff Street in Manhattan with her father, mother, and brothers Samuel and Bernie. Her brother David, who later testified against her in court, was not yet born. Her father was a mechanic and his trade fit in with the trades of the rest of the building which included a presser, waiter, peddler, tailor, and two butchers.
The Rosenbergs were arrested in 1950 and convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and executed on June 19, 1953, the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
Other happenings on 9/28/1915
- Battle of Loos – The Allied offensive hit a lull despite British Field Marshal John French suggesting to French General Ferdinand Foch that a power assault could force a gap in the German line. Foch felt the maneuver would be difficult to coordinate and that the British First Army was in no position for further attacks, having lost over 20,000 casualties.
- Second Battle of Champagne – The French nearly break through the German line and capture a key German reserve area behind it.
- Battle of Es Sinn – British and Indian forces under the command of Charles Townshend defeated Ottoman forces at a strategic point in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, setting the Allied forces for a siege on Kut in what is now Iraq.
- The Anglo-French Financial Commission and an American syndicate led by J.P. Morgan & Co. reached a credit agreement for $500 million over five years, at that time the largest single loan in financial history.
- Died: Georges Peignot, French publisher, founder of G. Peignot et Fils (b. 1872); Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai, the main leader in the Boshin War and member of the Satsuma Rebellion during the Meiji era in Japan (b. 1844)
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Sources
- Wikipedia.org
- Ancestry.com
- Onthisday.com
- picryl.com
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