June 25
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June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 841 – Battle of Fontenay: Forces lead by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
- 1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, graduating from the University of Padua.
- 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
- 1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers Saint George Island in the Pribilof Islands (now belonging to Alaska, US) in the Bering Sea.
- 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.
- 1888 – Fire destroys Sundsvall, Sweden.
- 1903 – Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium.
- 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" is first performed in Paris.
- 1935 – Colombia and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
- 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
- 1944 – World War II: The Nordic countries' biggest battle of the War, of Tali-Ihantala, begins.
- 1945 – Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
- 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (Diary of Anne Frank) is first published.
- 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
- 1949 – "Long-Haired Hare", starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theatres.
- 1950 – The beginning of the Korean War.
- 1953 – In the UK, the murderer John Christie is sentenced to death.
- 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.
- 1975 – Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
- 1975 – A State of Emergency is declared in India.
- 1976 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in New Guinea kills 422 people.
- 1978 – The Rainbow flag for Gay Pride is flown for the first time in San Francisco.
- 1978 – Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, beating the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time.
- 1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
- 1982 – A match-fixing scandal erupts after West Germany and Austria both qualify from the group stage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in a very slow-paced match, at Algeria's expense.
- 1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
- 1988 – In West Germany, the Netherlands national football team wins the UEFA European Championship, defeating the Soviet Union national football team 2-0. In the game, Dutch striker Marco van Basten scores a goal that is widely considered to be the best in European Championship history.
- 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.
- 1997 – The Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat erupts, killing 19 people.
- 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.
- 2001 – A typhoon strikes Fujian province of China, killing over 100 people.
- 2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
- 2007 – British soldiers leave Northern Ireland after 37 years.
- 2009 – Pop star Michael Jackson dies suddenly, aged 50, leading to a worldwide outpouring of grief.
Births [change]
- 1242 – Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
- 1328 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
- 1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
- 1715 – Jean-Francois Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
- 1726 – Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
- 1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
- 1768 – Lazare Hoche, French general (d. 1797)
- 1852 – Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
- 1858 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
- 1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1941)
- 1860 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
- 1863 – Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
- 1865 – Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
- 1870 – Yi-junyong, Korean Joseon Dynasty politician (d. 1917)
- 1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
- 1887 – George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and actor (d. 1995)
- 1894 – Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989)
- 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1979)
- 1902 – Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
- 1903 – George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)
- 1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973)
- 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
- 1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist (d. 1980)
- 1912 – William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
- 1915 – Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
- 1917 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Nicholas Mosley, British writer
- 1923 – Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
- 1925 – June Lockhart, American actress
- 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, writer (d. 1973)
- 1928 – Alexei Alexeyich Abrikosov, Russian physicist
- 1928 – Peyo, Belgian comic book artist (d. 1992)
- 1929 – Eric Carle, American children's author
- 1930 – Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
- 1931 – V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Peter Blake, British artist
- 1933 – James Meredith, American civil rights activist
- 1936 – Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia, 1998 – 1999
- 1937 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
- 1945 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
- 1946 – Romeo Dallaire, Canadian senator
- 1946 – Ian McDonald, British musician
- 1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- 1955 – Terry Chimes, musician
- 1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
- 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author
- 1960 – Aldo Serena, Italian footballer
- 1961 – Ricky Gervais, British comedian and actor
- 1962 – Phill Jupitus, British comedian and broadcaster
- 1963 – George Michael, British singer
- 1963 – Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian author
- 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
- 1970 – Lucy Benjamin, British actress
- 1971 – Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
- 1971 – Scott Maslen, English actor
- 1972 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1973 – Milan Hnilicka, Czech ice hockey player
- 1973 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
- 1974 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
- 1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
- 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- 1977 – Lola Ponce, Argentine-born Italian singer, actress and model
- 1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
- 1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
- 1982 – Rain, Korean singer and actor
- 1983 – Marc Janko, Austrian footballer
- 1985 – Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
- 1985 – Hanna Perez Moza, Mexican singer (Ha*Ash)
- 1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
Deaths [change]
- 253 – Pope Cornelius
- 635 – Emperor Gaozu, 1st Emperorof the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 566)
- 1134 – King Niels of Denmark (b. 1034)
- 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman crusader (b. 1160)
- 1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
- 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541)
- 1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
- 1638 – Juan Perez de Montalban, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
- 1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
- 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
- 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
- 1792 – Thomas Peters, Sierra Leone founding father (b. 1738)
- 1822 – E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
- 1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
- 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
- 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
- 1876 – Thomas Custer, American army officer (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout (b. 1848)
- 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- 1884 – Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
- 1889 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (b. 1831)
- 1898 – Ferdinand Julius Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (b. 1828)
- 1906 – Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)
- 1916 – Thomas Eakins, artist (b. 1844)
- 1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
- 1948 – William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
- 1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (b. 1880)
- 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1983 – Oddbjorn Hagen, Norwegian skier (b. 1908)
- 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
- 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (b. 1962)
- 1995 – Warren E. Burger, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice (b. 1907)
- 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1905)
- 1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, movie maker and inventor (b. 1910)
- 2003 – Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Erika Crusardson, artist and actress (b. 1975)
- 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Michael Jackson, American entertainer and singer (b. 1958)
- 2011 – Margaret Tyzack, British actress (b. 1931)
Observances [change]
- Independence Day (Mozambique)
- National Day of Slovenia and Croatia
- Statehood Day (Virginia)
- National Catfish Day (United States)
- Arbor Day (Philippines)
