June 25

June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining.

Events

• 841 – Battle of Fontenay
• 1788 – Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
• 1876 – Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
• 1945 – Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
• 1950 – The beginning of the Korean War.
• 1959 – Eamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
• 1967 – First global satellite television programme – "Our World"
• 1973 – Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
• 1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
• 1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 1993 – David Letterman airs his last episode of Late_Night_with_David_Letterman.
• 1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1996 – Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
• 1998 – Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
• 1999 – The American soap opera Another World airs its 8891st and final episode.

Births

• 1852 – Antoni Gaudi, architect (d. 1926)
• 1858 – Georges Courteline, dramatist (d. 1929)
• 1864 – Walther Nernst, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920 (d. 1941)
• 1865 – Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
• 1884 – Henry Kahnweiler, Montparnasse art promoter (d. 1979)
• 1887 – George Abbott, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor (d. 1995)
• 1894 – Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989
• 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Baron Romsey (d. 1979)
• 1903 – George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), writer (d. 1950)
• 1912 – William T. Cahill, governor of New Jersey
• 1913 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Nicholas Mosley, British writer
• 1924 – Sidney Lumet, actor, director
• 1925 – June Lockhart, actress (Lassie's "mother")
• 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (d. 1973)
• 1930 – Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
• 1932 – Peter Blake, artist
• 1933 – James Meredith, civil rights activist
• 1945 – Carly Simon, singer
• 1955 – Terry Chimes, musician
• 1956 – Boris Trajkovski, president of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
• 1963 – George Michael, singer
• 1963 – Yann Martel, author
• 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
• 1970 – Lucy Benjamin, British actress
• 1972 – Carlos Delgado, baseball player
• 1974 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
• 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
• 1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
• 1983 – Nargis Farahmand, Afghanistani poet
• 1985 – Hanna Perez Moza, Mexican singer, (Ha*Ash)
• 1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer

Deaths

• 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman crusader (b. 1160)
• 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541)
• 1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
• 1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer
• 1822 – E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer and composer
• 1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan
• 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
• 1884 – Hans Rott, composer
• 1916 – Thomas Eakins, artist
• 1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
• 1948 – William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
• 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter
• 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
• 1988 – Hillel Slovak, guitarist
• 1995 – Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice
• 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, and inventor
• 2003 – Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of Georgia

Holidays and Observances

• Statehood day in Slovenia and Croatia
• Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)
• National Catfish Day
• Spain – Fiesta of Santa Orosia
• National Strawberry Parfait Day
• Mozambique – Independence Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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