June 25
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June 25 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 188 days remaining until the end of the year.
[change] 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.
- 1903 - Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium.
- 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 - Éamon 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.
- 2007 - British soldiers leave Northern Ireland after 37 years
[change] Births
- 1852 - Antoni Gaudi, architect (d. 1926)
- 1858 - Georges Courteline, dramatist (d. 1929)
- 1864 - Walther Nernst, German physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (d. 1941)
- 1865 - Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
- 1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, art promoter (d. 1979)
- 1887 - George Abbott, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor (d. 1995)
- 1894 - Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989
- 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1979)
- 1903 - George Orwell, 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, American actress
- 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, writer (d. 1973)
- 1929 - Eric Carle, children's author
- 1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
- 1932 - Peter Blake, artist
- 1933 - James Meredith, American 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 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
- 1975 - Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
- 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- 1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
- 1985 - Hanna Perez Moza, Mexican singer (Ha*Ash)
- 1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
[change] 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, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
- 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)
- 1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
- 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
