June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 253 – Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
- 524 – The Franks defeat 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.
Births
- 1242 – Beatrice of England (d. 1275)
- 1328 – William de 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)
- 1709 – Francesco Araja, Italian composer
- 1715 – Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
- 1726 – Thomas Pennant, Welsh naturalist (d. 1798)
- 1755 – Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
- 1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
- 1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (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, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
- 1865 – Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
- 1884 – Géza Gyóni, Hungarian poet (d. 1917)
- 1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
- 1886 – Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
- 1887 – George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)
- 1887 – Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
- 1892 – Shirō Ishii, Japanese war criminal (d. 1959)
- 1894 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
- 1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English statesman and naval officer (d. 1979)
- 1901 – Harold Roe Bartle, American politician (d. 1974)
- 1902 – Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
- 1903 – George Orwell, English author (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, American politician (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Cyril Fletcher, English comedian (d. 2005)
- 1917 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish skier (d. 2012)
- 1921 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
- 1923 – Sam Francis, America painter (d. 1994)
- 1923 – Dorothy Gilman, American author (d. 2012)
- 1923 – Nicholas Mosley, English writer
- 1924 – Sidney Lumet, American director (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Clifton Chenier, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1987)
- 1925 – June Lockhart, American actress
- 1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
- 1927 – Chuck Smith, American pastor
- 1927 – Antal Róka, Hungarian athlete (d. 1970)
- 1928 – Peyo, Belgian illustrator and writer (d. 1992)
- 1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928 – Michel Brault, Canadian director and producer
- 1928 – Bill Russo, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1929 – Eric Carle, American author
- 1930 – George Murdock, American actor
- 1930 – Mary Beth Peil, American actress and singer
- 1931 – V. P. Singh Indian politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Peter Blake, English artist
- 1933 – James Meredith, American civil rights activist and writer
- 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect, designed the Porto School of Architecture
- 1934 – Jack W. Hayford, American minister and author
- 1934 – Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006)
- 1935 – Eddie Floyd, American singer-songwriter (The Falcons)
- 1936 – B. J. Habibie, Indonesian engineer, industrialist, politician, 3rd President of Indonesia
- 1939 – Allen Fox, American tennis player
- 1939 – Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
- 1940 – A.J. Quinnell, English writer (d. 2005)
- 1940 – Clint Warwick, English bassist (The Moody Blues) (d. 2004)
- 1941 – Denys Arcand, Canadian director
- 1942 – Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greek academic and ombudsman
- 1942 – Willis Reed, American basketball player
- 1942 – Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
- 1944 – Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer, musician, composer, actor, and author
- 1945 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter, actress, and author (Elephant's Memory)
- 1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Dutch-Canadian politician
- 1946 – Ian McDonald, English musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
- 1947 – Jimmie Walker, American actor
- 1949 – Patrick Tambay, French race car driver
- 1950 – Nitza Saul, Israeli-English actress
- 1950 – Marcello Toninelli, Italian writer
- 1952 – Péter Erdő, Hungarian cardinal
- 1952 – Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter (Finn Brothers, Crowded House, and Split Enz)
- 1952 – Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (Iron Butterfly)
- 1952 – Alan Green, Irish sportscaster
- 1954 – David Paich, American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and producer (Toto)
- 1954 – Daryush Shokof, Iranian director, writer, and producer
- 1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, American jurist
- 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author
- 1956 – Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
- 1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1959 – Paris Themmen, American actor
- 1960 – Craig Johnston, Australian footballer
- 1961 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, and writer
- 1961 – Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakh producer and director
- 1962 – Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
- 1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 – John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
- 1963 – Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian novelist
- 1963 – George Michael, English singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Wham!)
- 1963 – Jackie Swanson, American actress
- 1964 – Dell Curry, American basketball player
- 1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
- 1964 – Greg Raymer, American poker player
- 1964 – Emma Suárez, Spanish actress
- 1964 – Zeng Jinlian, Chinese tallest woman in the world (d. 1982)
- 1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese basketball player
- 1968 – Vaios Karagiannis, Greek footballer
- 1969 – Matt Gallant, American television host
- 1969 – Zim Zum, American guitarist and songwriter (The Pop Culture Suicides)
- 1970 – Lucy Benjamin, English actress
- 1970 – Ariel Gore, American journalist and novelist
- 1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist (Children of Bodom, Stone, Sinergy, and Waltari)
- 1970 – Erki Nool, Estonian athlete and politician
- 1970 – Aaron Sele, American baseball player
- 1971 – Angela Kinsey, American actress
- 1971 – Neil Lennon, Irish footballer
- 1971 – Jason Lewis, American actor and model
- 1971 – Scott Maslen, English actor
- 1971 – Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
- 1971 – Michael Tucker, American baseball player
- 1972 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1973 – Milan Hnilička, Czech ice hockey player
- 1973 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
- 1974 – Nisha Ganatra, Canadian director
- 1974 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- 1974 – Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
- 1975 – Chenoa, Argentine-Spanish singer
- 1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
- 1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
- 1975 – Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
- 1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- 1975 – Michele Merkin, American model and television host
- 1976 – José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
- 1976 – Iestyn Harris, Welsh rugby player and coach
- 1976 – Carlos Nieto, Argentine-Italian rugby player
- 1977 – Layla El, English wrestler, model, and dancer
- 1977 – Lola Ponce, Argentine-Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and actress
- 1978 – Aramis Ramirez, Dominican baseball player
- 1978 – Luke Scott, American baseball player
- 1978 – Aftab Shivdasani, Indian actor
- 1978 – Marcus Stroud, American football player
- 1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese wrestler
- 1979 – Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer
- 1979 – La La, American actress and television host
- 1979 – Busy Philipps, American actress
- 1980 – Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
- 1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
- 1981 – Sheridan Smith, English actress
- 1981 – Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
- 1982 – Rain, South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
- 1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
- 1983 – Todd Cooper, English swimmer
- 1984 – Indigo, American actress
- 1984 – Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
- 1985 – Daniel Bard, American baseball player
- 1985 – Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer
- 1986 – Megan Burns, English actress and singer
- 1986 – Charlie Davies, American soccer player
- 1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer (GAM, Gomattō, 3nin Matsuri, and Def.Diva)
- 1987 – Brian Canter, American bull rider
- 1987 – Alissa Czisny, American figure skater
- 1987 – Takahiro Itō, Japanese actor (d. 2009)
- 1987 – Scott Terra, American actor
- 1989 – Jack Cork, English footballer
- 1989 – Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor
- 1989 – Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor
- 1991 – Kyousuke Hamao, Japanese actor, singer, and model
- 1991 – Christa Theret, French actress
- 1993 – Barney Clark, English actor
- 1993 – Piero Vergara, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
- 2002 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
Deaths
- 253 – Pope Cornelius
- 635 – Emperor Gaozu of Tang (b. 566)
- 1134 – Niels, King of Denmark (b. 1064)
- 1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (b. 1160)
- 1291 – Eleanor of Provence, (b. 1223)
- 1483 – Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer (b. 1440)
- 1522 – Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (b. 1451)
- 1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
- 1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
- 1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (b. 1541)
- 1622 – Péter Révay, Hungarian poet, soldier, and historian (b. 1568)
- 1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
- 1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
- 1665 – Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria (b. 1630)
- 1669 – François de Vendôme, Duc de Beaufort, French soldier (b. 1616)
- 1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
- 1673 – Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, French Musketeer (b. c. 1611)
- 1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
- 1715 – Jean du Casse, French admiral (b. 1646)
- 1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
- 1792 – Thomas Peters, Sierra Leonean revolutionary (b. 1738)
- 1798 – Thomas Sandby, English architect (b. 1721)
- 1822 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (b. 1776)
- 1838 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general (b. 1774)
- 1861 – Abdülmecid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
- 1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
- 1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
- 1870 – David Heaton, American politician (b. 1823)
- 1875 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (b. 1796)
- 1875 – Katherine McKinley, American daughter of William McKinley (b. 1871)
- 1876 – James Calhoun, American lieutenant (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Boston Custer, American soldier (b. 1848)
- 1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
- 1876 – Thomas Custer, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845)
- 1876 – Myles Keogh, Irish soldier (b. 1840)
- 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
- 1884 – Hans Rott, Austrian composer (b. 1858)
- 1906 – Stanford White, American architect, designed the Washington Square Arch (b. 1853)
- 1916 – Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
- 1917 – Géza Gyóni, Hungarian poet (b. 1884)
- 1918 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player (b. 1867)
- 1922 – Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882)
- 1937 – Colin Clive, English actor (b. 1900)
- 1944 – Dénes Berinkey, Hungarian jurist and politician (b. 1871)
- 1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
- 1948 – William C. Lee, American army general (b. 1895)
- 1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
- 1950 – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, Irish author (b. 1904)
- 1958 – Alfred Noyes, English poet (b. 1880)
- 1959 – Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (b. 1938)
- 1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
- 1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
- 1972 – Jan Matulka, American painter (b. 1890)
- 1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
- 1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
- 1977 – Endre Szervánszky, Hungarian composer (b. 1911)
- 1979 – Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1894)
- 1979 – Philippe Halsman, American photographer (b. 1906)
- 1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
- 1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
- 1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
- 1987 – Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1920)
- 1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (Red Hot Chili Peppers and What Is This?) (b. 1962)
- 1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American murderer (b. 1940)
- 1992 – Jerome Brown, American football player (b. 1965)
- 1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 1996 – Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and diplomat (b. 1914)
- 1997 – Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (b. 1910)
- 1998 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian singer, guitarist, and poet (b. 1956)
- 1999 – Fred Feast, English actor (b. 1929)
- 2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
- 2003 – Lester Maddox, American politician (b. 1915)
- 2005 – John Fiedler, American actor (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Kâzım Koyuncu, Turkish singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1971)
- 2006 – Jaap Penraat, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1918)
- 2007 – Jeeva, Indian director (b. 1963)
- 2007 – Mahasti, Iranian singer (b. 1946)
- 2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sportscaster and educator (b. 1933)
- 2008 – Lyall Watson, South African anthropologist and writer (b. 1939)
- 2009 – Yasmine, Belgian singer (b. 1972)
- 2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
- 2009 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor (The Jackson 5) (b. 1958)
- 2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Seeds) (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Anil Wilson, Indian educationist (b. 1947)
- 2010 – Alan Plater, English playwright (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Richard B. Sellars, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Margaret Tyzack, English actress (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Goff Richards, English composer and arranger
- 2012 – Shigemitsu Dandō, Japanese jurist (b. 1913)
- 2012 – George Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1927)
- 2012 – John Koko, American musician (Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau) (b. 1961)
- 2012 – Vyacheslav Ionov, Russian sprinter (b. 1940)
- 2012 – Doris Schade, German actress (b. 1924)
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