June 25

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)
• 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, playwright
• 1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
• 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer
• 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, 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, Maj, General United States Army (b. 1895)
• 1976 - Johnny Mercer, composer
• 1988 - Hillel Slovak, guitarist
• 1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice
• 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, scientist, inventor
• 2002 - Johnny Stork, dreamer, romantic
• 2003 - Lester Maddox, segregationist governor of the state 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

• BBC: On This Day

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