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June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining.
Events
841 - Battle of Fontenay
1700-1899
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.
1900-1999
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
1800-1899
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)
1900-1999
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)
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
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
1983 - Nargis Farahmand, Afghanistani poet
1985 - Hanna Perez Moza, Mexican singer, (Ha*Ash)
1987 - Daria Kosińska, historian
Deaths
1500-1899
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
1884 - Hans Rott, composer
1900-1999
1916 - Thomas Eakins, artist
1937 - Colin Clive, British Actor (b. 1900)
1976 - Johnny Mercer, composer
1988 - Hillel Slovak, guitarist
1992 - Yoshiko Uchida, Japanese-American writer
1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice
1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, scientist, inventor
2000-2099
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
Fiesta of Santa Orosia in Spain
National Strawberry Parfait Day
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