June 25

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

Events

524 - Battle of Vézeronce, Franks defeat Burgundians
841 - Battle of Fontenay
1530 - The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
1788 - Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of General George Armstrong Custer.
1905 - Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond known, is discovered by Frederick Wells.
1938 - Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated the first President of Ireland.
1950 - The beginning of the Korean War.
1967 - First global satellite television programme – "Our World"
1975 - State of Emergency in India declared.
1975 - Mozambique achieved independence.
1976 - Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused the Latter Day Saints.
1981 - Microsoft Inc. is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the 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 leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
1997 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir.
1998 - In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

Births

1328 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1560 - Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1715 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1860 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1865 - Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886 - Henry H. Arnold, American Army Air Force commander (d. 1950)
1887 - George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, and actor (d. 1995)
1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1903 - Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1908 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
1912 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1921 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer
1923 - Nicholas Mosley, British writer
1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor and director
1925 - June Lockhart, American actress
1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 - Peyo, Belgian illustrator (The Smurfs) (d. 1992)
1929 - Eric Carle, American children's author
1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
1932 - Peter Blake, English artist
1933 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1933 - Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
1935 - Eddie Floyd, American R&B singer
1939 - Harold Melvin, American drummer and singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
1940 - A.J. Quinnell, English thriller and mystery writer (d. 2005)
1941 - Denys Arcand, Canadian film director
1942 - Michel Tremblay, Canadian playright and novelist
1944 - Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer and composer
1945 - Carly Simon, American singer
1946 - Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general
1946 - Ian McDonald, keybord player and composer (King Crimson and Foreigner)
1952 - Tim Finn, New Zealand singer/singwriter
1954 - David Paich, keybord player and composer (Toto)
1956 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1960 - Dario de Judicibus, Italian writer
1963 - George Michael, English singer
1963 - Yann Martel, Canadian author
1963 - Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 - Johnny Herbert, British Formula One driver
1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, Congan basketball player
1968 - Craig Short, English footballer
1969 - Matt Gallant, U.S. television host
1969 - Zim Zum, American musician/songwriter
1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1970 - Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete, Olympian
1971 - Angela Kinsey, American actress
1971 - Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
1971 - Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1971 - Michael Tucker, Baseball player
1972 - Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1975 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975 - Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1975 - Tatiana Lysenko, Russian gymnast
1976 - José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1981 - Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982 - Rain, Korean R&B & pop singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
1983 - Nargis Farahmand, Afghan poet
1984 - Amrita Hunjan, British R&B Singer
1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer

Deaths

1134 - King Niels of Denmark
1218 - Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
1483 - Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
1522 - Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
1533 - Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
1579 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
1593 - Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
1634 - John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665 - Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (b. 1630)
1669 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1798 - Thomas Sandby, English cartographer and architect (b. 1721)
1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
1838 - François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor of gooches (b. 1796)
1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (b. 1839)
1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
1916 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
1937 - Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
1948 - William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1960 - Tommy Corcoran, baseball player (b. 1869)
1971 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1880)
1974 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
1982 - Igor Gouzenko, Soviet spy who defected to Canada
1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
1987 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (b. 1962)
1992 - Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)
1995 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, and inventor (b. 1910)
2002 - Jean Corbeil, Quebec politician (b. 1934)
2003 - Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2006 - Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II (b. 1918)

Holidays and Observances

Statehood Day in Slovenia and Croatia
Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)
National Catfish Day
Mozambique – Independence Day
American Radio Relay League - Field Day 2006

iturgical feasts

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