Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," gave her first concert in the United States in 1850 at Castle Garden in New York.

The indigenous Ainu people of Japan believed that salmon, one of their staple foods, were spirits who returned each year, sacrificing themselves so that the Ainu could live.

The first White House wedding took place March 29. 1812, when Lucy Payne Washington, sister-in-law of President James Madison, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd.

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage charges in 1951. They were executed in 1953.

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