Title: June 25 Content: == Events == === Up to 1900 === *253 Pope Cornelius is executed by beheading. *524 The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vezeronce. *841 Battle of Fontenay: Forces lead 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. *1658 Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War. *1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, graduating from the University of Padua. *1741 Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary. *1786 Gavriil Pribylov discovers Saint George Island in the Pribilof Islands (now belonging to Alaska, US) in the Bering Sea. *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. *1888 Fire destroys Sundsvall, Sweden. *1900 Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts of great historical significance, in the Magao Caves at Dunhuang, China. === 1901 2000 === *1903 Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium. *1910 Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" is first performed in Paris. *1935 Colombia and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations. *1938 Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland. *1940 World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany. *1943 The Holocaust: Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis. *1944 World War II: The Nordic countries' biggest battle of the war, of Tali-Ihantala, begins. *1945 Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland. *1947 The Diary of a Young Girl (Diary of Anne Frank) is first published. *1948 The Berlin airlift begins. *1949 "Long-Haired Hare", starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theatres. *1950 The beginning of the Korean War. *1953 In the UK, the murderer John Christie is sentenced to death. *1959 Éamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland. *1960 Two cryptographers working on the US National Security Agency leave for vacation in Mexico, and from there they defect to the Soviet Union. *1967 First global satellite television programme – "Our World". *1973 Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland. *1975 Mozambique gains independence from Portugal. *1975 A State of Emergency is declared in India. *1976 A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in New Guinea kills 422 people. *1978 The Rainbow flag for Gay pride is flown for the first time in San Francisco. *1978 Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, beating the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time. *1981 Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington. *1982 A match-fixing scandal erupts after West Germany and Austria both qualify from the group stage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in a very slow-paced match, at Algeria's expense. *1982 Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military. *1988 In West Germany, the Netherlands wins the UEFA European Championship, defeating the Soviet Union 2-0. In the game, Dutch striker Marco van Basten scores a goal that is widely considered to be the best in European Championship history. *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. *1993 Tansu Ciller becomes the first female Prime Minister of Turkey. *1993 Vienna Declaration is adopted by World Conference on Human Rights. *1996 Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia. *1997 The Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat erupts, killing 19 people. *1997 An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space Station Mir. *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. === From 2001 === *2001 A typhoon strikes Fujian province of China, killing over 100 people. *2006 Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is kidnapped by Palestinian militants. *2007 British soldiers leave Northern Ireland after 37 years. *2009 Pop star Michael Jackson dies suddenly, aged 50, leading to a worldwide outpouring of grief. *2013 Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar. *2014 An explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, kills over 20 people. == Births == === Up to 1900 === *1242 Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275) *1328 William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397) *1373 Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435) *1560 Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634) *1568 Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597) *1612 John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634) *1646 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher (d. 1684) *1715 Jean-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789) *1726 Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798) *1755 Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776) *1768 Lazare Hoche, French general (d. 1797) *1799 David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834) *1821 Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina (d. 1906) *1825 James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1888) *1842 Eloy Alfaro, 15th President of Ecuador (d. 1912) *1852 Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926) *1858 Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929) *1860 Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956) *1863 Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935) *1864 Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1941) *1865 Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929) *1870 Yi Jun-yong, Korean Joseon Dynasty politician (d. 1917) *1884 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979) *1886 Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950) *1887 Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938) *1887 George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and actor (d. 1995) *1894 Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989) *1896 Alfred Anderson, Scottish centenarian and World War I veteran (d. 2005) *1900 Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988) *1900 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1979) === 1901 1950 === *1902 Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953) *1903 George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950) *1903 Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990) *1903 Bob Skelton, American swimmer (d. 1977) *1904 Vladimir Kokkinaki, Russian test pilot (d. 1985) *1905 Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer (d. 1976) *1907 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973) *1908 Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000) *1911 William Howard Stein, American chemist (d. 1980) *1912 William T. Cahill, American politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996) *1913 Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005) *1915 Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998) *1917 Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012) *1917 Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018) *1921 Heinrich Windelen, German politician (d. 2015) *1923 Nicholas Mosley, British writer (d. 2017) *1923 Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994) *1924 Sidney Lumet, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011) *1925 June Lockhart, American actress *1925 Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018) *1926 Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016) *1926 Ingeborg Bachmann, writer (d. 1973) *1926 Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge and politician (d. 2015) *1927 Antal Roka, Hungarian athlete (d. 1970) *1928 Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist (d. 2017) *1928 Peyo, Belgian comic book artist (d. 1992) *1928 Alex Toth, American cartoonist (d. 2006) *1929 Eric Carle, American children's writer (d. 2021) *1929 Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014) *1930 George Murdock, American actor (d. 2012) *1931 Mrunalini Devi Puar, Indian educator (d. 2015) *1931 V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008) *1932 George Sluizer, Dutch filmmaker (d. 2014) *1932 Peter Blake, British artist *1933 James Meredith, American civil rights activist *1935 Charles Sheffield, English mathematician, physicist and science fiction author (d. 2002) *1935 Larry Kramer, American writer and activist *1936 Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia, 1998 – 1999 *1937 Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000) *1940 Denys Arcand, French-Canadian movie director, screenwriter and producer *1940 Peer Augustinski, German actor (d. 2014) *1940 Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress *1942 Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright *1945 Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter *1945 Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (d. 2019) *1946 Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator *1946 Ian McDonald, British musician *1949 Brigitte Bierlein, Austrian jurist and Chancellor of Austria === 1951 1975 === *1952 Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter, musician and composer *1954 Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court *1954 Mario Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player *1954 David Paich, American singer-songwriter *1954 Alison Leslie, British diplomat *1955 Terry Chimes, musician *1956 Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004) *1956 Anthony Bourdain, American chef and writer (d. 2018) *1957 Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player *1959 Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper *1960 Aldo Serena, Italian footballer *1960 Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player *1961 Ricky Gervais, British comedian and actor *1961 Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakhstani producer and director *1962 Phill Jupitus, British comedian and broadcaster *1963 George Michael, British singer (d. 2016) *1963 Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian writer *1963 Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player *1963 John Benjamin Hickey, American actor *1964 Johnny Herbert, British Formula One driver *1964 Greg Raymer, American poker player *1966 Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (d. 2015) *1966 Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player *1969 Zim Sum, American guitarist *1970 Lucy Benjamin, British actress *1971 Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer *1971 Scott Maslen, English actor *1971 Jason Lewis, American actor *1972 Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player *1972 Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan politician *1973 Milan Hnilicka, Czech ice hockey player *1973 Jamie Redknapp, English footballer *1973 Sunetra Sarker, English actress *1974 Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress *1975 Derek Adams, Scottish footballer and coach *1975 Linda Cardellini, American actress *1975 Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player *1975 Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player === From 1976 === *1976 José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer *1976 Carlos Niesto, Argentine-Italian rugby player *1976 Iestyn Harris, Welsh rugby player *1976 Gavin Williamson, English politician *1977 Lola Ponce, Argentine-born Italian singer, actress and model *1979 Daniel Jensen, Danish footballer *1979 La La, American actress and TV host *1981 Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper *1981 Sheridan Smith, English actress and singer *1981 Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress *1982 Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player *1982 Rain, Korean singer and actor *1982 Cécile Cassel, French actress and singer *1983 Marc Janko, Austrian footballer *1984 Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer *1985 Scott Brown, Scottish footballer *1985 Hanna Pérez Moza, Mexican singer (Ha*Ash) *1985 Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer *1986 Gabriele Grunewald, American runner (d. 2019) *1986 Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer *1986 Charlie Davies, American soccer player *1987 Claudio Corti, Italian motorcycle racer *1987 Alissa Czisny, American figure skater *1988 Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player *1989 Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor, director, producer and screenwriter *1989 Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor, director and screenwriter *1991 Kyousuke Hamao, Japanese actor, singer and model *1991 Victor Wanyama, Kenyan footballer *1991 Simone Zaza, Italian footballer *1993 Barney Clark, English actor *1997 Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer *2002 Mason Vale Cotton, American actor == Deaths == === Up to 1900 === *253 Pope Cornelius *635 Emperor Gaozu, 1st Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 566) *1134 King Niels of Denmark (b. 1034) *1218 Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman crusader (b. 1160) *1291 Eleanor of Provence (b. 1223) *1533 Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496) *1579 Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541) *1593 Michele Mercati, Italian physician (b. 1541) *1634 John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576) *1638 Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602) *1665 Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630) *1671 Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598) *1686 Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626) *1767 Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681) *1792 Thomas Peters, Sierra Leone founding father (b. 1738) *1822 E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776) *1857 Langdon Cheves, American politician (b. 1776) *1861 Abd-ul- Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823) *1864 King William I of Württemberg (b. 1781) *1866 Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803) *1868 Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811) *1876 George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839) *1876 Thomas Custer, American army officer (b. 1845) *1876 Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout (b. 1848) *1882 François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806) *1884 Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858) *1886 Jean-Louis Beaudry, 11th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1809) *1889 Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (b. 1831) *1898 Ferdinand Julius Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (b. 1828) === 1901 2000 === *1906 Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853) *1916 Thomas Eakins, artist (b. 1844) *1922 Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882) *1929 Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (b. 1858) *1932 Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete (b. 1881) *1933 Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (b. 1868) *1937 Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900) *1939 Dick Seaman, English racing driver (b. 1913) *1944 Dénes Berinkey, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871) *1944 Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906) *1948 William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895) *1949 Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871) *1960 Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869) *1971 John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (b. 1880) *1974 Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893) *1976 Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909) *1977 Bob Skelton, American swimmer (b. 1903) *1979 Dave Fleischer, American animator, director and producer (b. 1894) *1983 Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916) *1983 Oddbjorn Hagen, Norwegian skier (b. 1908) *1984 Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926) *1988 Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (b. 1962) *1992 James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926) *1995 Warren E. Burger, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice (b. 1907) *1995 Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1905) *1997 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, movie maker and inventor (b. 1910) *1999 Tommy Ivan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911) === From 2001 === *2003 Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of Georgia (b. 1915) *2006 Kenneth Griffith, British actor and director (b. 1921) *2008 Erika Crusardson, artist and actress (b. 1975) *2009 Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947) *2009 Michael Jackson, American entertainer and singer (b. 1958) *2009 Sky Saxon, American singer- songwriter and musician (b. 1937) *2011 Margaret Tyzack, British actress (b. 1931) *2013 Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916) *2014 Ana Maria Matute, Spanish writer (b. 1925) *2014 Nigel Calder, English science writer (b. 1931) *2014 Arvid Jacobsen, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1938) *2015 Patrick Macnee, English-American actor (b. 1922) *2016 Bill Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1929) *2016 Giuseppe Ferrara, Italian movie director (b. 1932) *2016 Patrick Mayhew, British politician, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. 1929) *2016 Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931) *2016 Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, Indian writer (b. 1926) *2017 Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (b. 1938) *2017 Elsa Daniel, Argentine actress (b. 1938) *2017 K. R. Mohanan, Indian film director (b. 1947) *2017 José Manuel Mourinho Félix, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1938) *2017 Walter Fillmore, American general (b. 1933) *2018 Paul Gérin- Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1920) *2018 Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television presenter (b. 1941) *2018 David Goldblatt, South African photographer and critic of Apartheid (b. 1930) *2018 James M. Keck, American lieutenant general (b. 1921) *2019 Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (b. 1945) *2019 Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929) == Observances == * Independence Day (Mozambique) * National Day of Slovenia and Croatia * Statehood Day (Virginia) * National Catfish Day (United States) * Arbor Day (Philippines) Category:Days of the year