Timeline Thursday 29 March 1951

Events on Thursday 29 March 1951 1

• 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage Couple found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union A New York jury convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of conspiracy to commit espionage for supplying American atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced them to death a week later. The case became a defining episode of Cold War-era espionage prosecutions; they were executed in 1953.