June 25
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June 25 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining.
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Events
- 1788 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
- 1876 - The Battle of Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Custer.
- 1950 - The beginning of the Korean War.
- 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia
- 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.
Births
- 1852 - Antoni Gaudi, architect (+ 1926)
- 1858 - Georges Courteline, dramatist (+ 1929)
- 1864 - Walther Nernst, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1920 (+ 1941)
- 1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, Montparnasse art promoter (+ 1979)
- 1887 - George Abbott, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor (+ 1995)
- 1894 - Hermann Oberth, physicist (+ 1989)
- 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viscount Mountbatten of India (+ 1979)
- 1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), writer (+ 1950)
- 1915 - Peter Lind Hayes, actor (+ 1998)
- 1924 - Sidney Lumet, actor, director
- 1925 - June Lockhart, actress (Lassie's "mother")
- 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (+ 1973)
- 1932 - Peter Blake, artist
- 1933 - James Meredith, civil rights activist
- 1945 - Carly Simon, singer
- 1963 - George Michael, singer
- 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
Deaths
- 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer
- 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, composer
- 1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman sultan
- 1884 - Hans Rott, composer
- 1964 - Gerrit Rietveld, architect
- 1976 - Johnny Mercer, composer
- 1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice
- 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, scientist, inventor
Holidays and Observances
- Statehood day in Croatia
- Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists
See Also:
June 24 - June 26 - May 25 - July 25 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "June 25" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_25 December 16, 2003
