June 25

Events

841 - Battle of Fontenay (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 Prince-elector|Electors of Germany.

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.

1975 - State of Emergency in India declared.

Mozambique achieved independence.

1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.

1983 - India wins the Cricket World Cup.

1991 - Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia.

1993 - David Letterman airs his last episode of ''Late_Night_with_David_Letterman''.

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 Military of the United States|U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.

1997 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir.

1998 - Microsoft Windows 98 is released.

In ''Clinton v. City of New York'', the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is United States Constitution|unconstitutional.

1999 - The American soap opera ''Another World (TV series)|Another World'' airs its 8891st and final episode.

Births

1328 to 1899

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)

1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)

1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)

1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

1865 - Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)

1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)

1887 - George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, and actor (d. 1995)

1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)

1900 to 1999

1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)

1903 - George Orwell, British writer (d. 1950)

1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|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 Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate

1929 - Eric Carle, American children's author

1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress

1932 - Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake, English artist

1933 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist

Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect

1940 - A.J. Quinnell, English thriller and mystery writer (d. 2005)

1945 - Carly Simon, American singer

1955 - Terry Chimes, British musician

1956 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)

1957 - John Porcerelli, Former Professional Boxer, Preeminent Psychologist and Doctor

1963 - George Michael, English singer

Yann Martel, Canadian author

1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, Congan basketball player

1969 - Matt Gallant, U.S. television host

1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress

Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete, Olympian

1972 - Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player

1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress

1975 - Linda Cardellini, American actress

Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player

Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

1981 - Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper

1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player

1983 - Nargis Farahmand, Afghani poet

1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer

1990 - Sabrina Maria Magdalena Preiner, Austrian princess of Winden

Deaths

1134 to 1899

1134 - King Nicholas 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 France)|Mary Tudor, queen 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)

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)

1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)

1868 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)

1875 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)

1876 - George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army officer (killed in battle) (b. 1839)

1882 - François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)

1884 - Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)

1900 to 1999

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, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880)

1976 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)

1983 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)

1988 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (b. 1962)

1995 - Warren Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1907)

Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, and inventor (b. 1910)

2000 onwards

2003 - Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)

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

Mozambique – Independence Day

Abyssinian Coptic Orthodox Church – Feast of Saint Pontius Pilate

External links

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/25 ---- June 24 - June 26 - May 25 - July 25 – historical anniversaries|listing of all days