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June 25

June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining.

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances

Events

• 1788 - Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
• 1876 - The Battle of Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George 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.
• 1973 - Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
• 1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
• 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.
• 1996 - Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
• 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.

Births

• 1852 - Antoni Gaudi, architect (d. 1926)
• 1858 - Georges Courteline, dramatist (d. 1929)
• 1864 - Walther Nernst, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920 (d. 1941)
• 1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, Montparnasse art promoter (d. 1979)
• 1887 - George Abbott, playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, actor (d. 1995)
• 1894 - Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989)
• 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Baron Romsey(d. 1979)
• 1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), writer (d. 1950)
• 1915 - Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
• 1924 - Sidney Lumet, actor, director
• 1925 - June Lockhart, actress (Lassie's "mother")
• 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, lyricist, narrator and writer (d. 1973)
• 1932 - Peter Blake, artist
• 1933 - James Meredith, civil rights activist
• 1945 - Carly Simon, singer
• 1956 - Boris Trajkovski, president of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
• 1963 - George Michael, singer
• 1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
• 1972 - Carlos Delgado, baseball player
• 1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
• 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

Deaths

• 1634 - John Marston, playwright
• 1767 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer
• 1822 - E.T.A. Hoffmann, composer
• 1861 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman sultan
• 1884 - Hans Rott, composer
• 1976 - Johnny Mercer, composer
• 1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court justice
• 1997 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, explorer, scientist, inventor

Holidays and Observances

• Statehood day in Slovenia and Croatia
• Antichristmas celebrated by some Satanists (see also Midsummer)

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