June 25 - Events

Events

• 253 – Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
• 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
• 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
• 1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
• 1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
• 1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
• 1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
• 1788 – Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• 1906 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
• 1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
• 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
• 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
• 1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
• 1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
• 1944 – World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombard Cherbourg to support United States Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
• 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
• 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
• 1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
• 1949 – Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
• 1950 – The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
• 1960 – Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
• 1967 – Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World
• 1975 – The State of Emergency is declared in India.
• 1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
• 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
• 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
• 1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
• 1982 – Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
• 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 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
• 1997 – The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people.
• 1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
• 2006 – Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
• 2012 – The final steel beam of 4 World Trade Center is lifted into place in a ceremony.