June 25 in History

Historical Events on June 25

524

The Franks are defeated by 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.
1658

Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
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 tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1876

Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1900

The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
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.
1923

Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane
1935

Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
1938

Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
1940

World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35.
1943

The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1943

The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein murdered in Auschwitz.
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 British 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 is 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.
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.
1975

Mozambique achieves independence.
1975

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of internal emergency in India.
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 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1978

The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
1981

Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1984

American singer Prince releases his most successful studio album Purple Rain.
1991

Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence by referendum from Yugoslavia.
1993

Kim Campbell is sworn in as 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.
1998

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

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