June 25

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

Events

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 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.

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)
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)
1915 - Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
1924 - Sidney Lumet, actor, director
1925 - June Lockhart, actress (Lassie's "mother")
1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (d. 1973)
1932 - Peter Blake, artist
1933 - James Meredith, civil rights activist
1945 - Carly Simon, singer
1956 - Boris Trajkovski, president of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1963 - George Michael, singer
1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
1972 - Carlos Delgado, baseball player
1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player


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