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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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