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