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25th of June 0253 EVENT Pope Cornelius is executed (beheaded) at Centumcellae.
25th of June 0524 EVENT The Franks defeat the Burgundians in the Battle of Vezeronce.
25th of June 0841 EVENT 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.
25th of June 1530 EVENT At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
25th of June 1678 EVENT Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
25th of June 1741 EVENT Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
25th of June 1786 EVENT Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
25th of June 1788 EVENT Virginia becomes the 10th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
25th of June 1876 EVENT Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
25th of June 1906 EVENT Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
25th of June 1913 EVENT American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
25th of June 1935 EVENT Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
25th of June 1938 EVENT Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
25th of June 1944 EVENT World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.
25th of June 1947 EVENT The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
25th of June 1948 EVENT The Berlin airlift begins.
25th of June 1949 EVENT Long-Haired Hare, starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theaters.
25th of June 1950 EVENT The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
25th of June 1967 EVENT Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television programme: Our World
25th of June 1975 EVENT The State of Emergency is declared in India.
25th of June 1975 EVENT Mozambique achieves independence.
25th of June 1976 EVENT 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.
25th of June 1981 EVENT Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
25th of June 1982 EVENT Greece abolishes the head shaving of recruits in the military.
25th of June 1990 EVENT Avianca Flight 52 crashes into the village of Cove Neck, New York after running out of fuel, killing 73 people.
25th of June 1991 EVENT Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
25th of June 1993 EVENT Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
25th of June 1996 EVENT The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
25th of June 1997 EVENT The Soufriere Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people.
25th of June 1997 EVENT An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
25th of June 1998 EVENT In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
25th of June 2006 EVENT Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier, is kidnapped by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid from the Israeli territory.
25th of June 1242 BIRTHDAY Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
25th of June 1328 BIRTHDAY William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
25th of June 1560 BIRTHDAY Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
25th of June 1612 BIRTHDAY John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
25th of June 1715 BIRTHDAY Joseph-Francois Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
25th of June 1726 BIRTHDAY Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
25th of June 1755 BIRTHDAY Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
25th of June 1814 BIRTHDAY Gabriel Auguste Daubree, French geologist (d. 1896)
25th of June 1852 BIRTHDAY Antoni Gaudi, Spanish architect (d. 1926)
25th of June 1858 BIRTHDAY Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
25th of June 1860 BIRTHDAY Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
25th of June 1863 BIRTHDAY Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
25th of June 1864 BIRTHDAY Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
25th of June 1865 BIRTHDAY Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
25th of June 1884 BIRTHDAY Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
25th of June 1886 BIRTHDAY Henry H. Arnold, American General of the Army and of the Air Force (d. 1950)
25th of June 1887 BIRTHDAY Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
25th of June 1887 BIRTHDAY George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995)
25th of June 1894 BIRTHDAY Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
25th of June 1900 BIRTHDAY Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
25th of June 1901 BIRTHDAY Harold Roe Bartle, American lawyer, and politician, mayor of Kansas City, MO (d. 1974)
25th of June 1902 BIRTHDAY Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu of Japan, brother of Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Showa) (d. 1953)
25th of June 1903 BIRTHDAY Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
25th of June 1903 BIRTHDAY George Orwell, British writer (d. 1950)
25th of June 1907 BIRTHDAY J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
25th of June 1908 BIRTHDAY Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
25th of June 1911 BIRTHDAY William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
25th of June 1912 BIRTHDAY William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
25th of June 1913 BIRTHDAY Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
25th of June 1921 BIRTHDAY Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
25th of June 1923 BIRTHDAY Nicholas Mosley, British writer
25th of June 1923 BIRTHDAY Sam Francis, America painter (d. 1994)
25th of June 1924 BIRTHDAY Sidney Lumet, American film director (d. 2011)
25th of June 1925 BIRTHDAY June Lockhart, American actress
25th of June 1926 BIRTHDAY Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
25th of June 1927 BIRTHDAY Chuck Smith, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa
25th of June 1928 BIRTHDAY Michel Brault, Quebec film director, screenwriter and producer
25th of June 1928 BIRTHDAY Peyo, Belgian illustrator (d. 1992)
25th of June 1928 BIRTHDAY Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
25th of June 1928 BIRTHDAY Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
25th of June 1929 BIRTHDAY Eric Carle, American author
25th of June 1930 BIRTHDAY George Murdock, American actor
25th of June 1930 BIRTHDAY Mary Beth Peil, American singer
25th of June 1932 BIRTHDAY Peter Blake, British pop artist
25th of June 1933 BIRTHDAY James Meredith, American civil rights activist
25th of June 1933 BIRTHDAY Alvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
25th of June 1934 BIRTHDAY Jack W. Hayford, fourth president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
25th of June 1934 BIRTHDAY Beatriz Sheridan, Mexican actress and director (d. 2006)
25th of June 1935 BIRTHDAY Eddie Floyd, American soul singer
25th of June 1936 BIRTHDAY Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, Indonesian politician, President (1998-1999)
25th of June 1939 BIRTHDAY Allen Fox, American tennis player
25th of June 1939 BIRTHDAY Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
25th of June 1940 BIRTHDAY Clint Warwick, English bassist (The Moody Blues) (d. 2004)
25th of June 1940 BIRTHDAY A.J. Quinnell, British writer (d. 2005)
25th of June 1941 BIRTHDAY Denys Arcand, Canadian film director
25th of June 1942 BIRTHDAY Willis Reed, American basketball player
25th of June 1942 BIRTHDAY Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
25th of June 1942 BIRTHDAY Nikiforos Diamandouros, Greek academic and European Ombudsman
25th of June 1944 BIRTHDAY Robert Charlebois, Canadian singer
25th of June 1945 BIRTHDAY Carly Simon, American singer and songwriter
25th of June 1946 BIRTHDAY Ian McDonald, English saxophonist (King Crimson, Foreigner)
25th of June 1946 BIRTHDAY Romeo Dallaire, Dutch-born Canadian senator
25th of June 1947 BIRTHDAY Jimmie Walker, American actor
25th of June 1950 BIRTHDAY Nitza Saul, Israeli actress
25th of June 1952 BIRTHDAY Alan Green, Northern Irish BBC Sport broadcaster and commentator
25th of June 1952 BIRTHDAY Tim Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter
25th of June 1954 BIRTHDAY Daryush Shokof, Iranian filmmaker
25th of June 1954 BIRTHDAY David Paich, American keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Toto)
25th of June 1954 BIRTHDAY Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
25th of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author
25th of June 1956 BIRTHDAY Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
25th of June 1959 BIRTHDAY Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
25th of June 1959 BIRTHDAY Paris Themmen, American actor
25th of June 1960 BIRTHDAY Craig Johnston, Australian footballer
25th of June 1961 BIRTHDAY Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor and writer
25th of June 1962 BIRTHDAY Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
25th of June 1963 BIRTHDAY Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
25th of June 1963 BIRTHDAY John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
25th of June 1963 BIRTHDAY Yann Martel, Spanish-born Canadian novelist
25th of June 1963 BIRTHDAY George Michael, British singer and songwriter
25th of June 1964 BIRTHDAY Dell Curry, American basketball player
25th of June 1964 BIRTHDAY Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
25th of June 1964 BIRTHDAY Emma Suarez, Spanish actress
25th of June 1964 BIRTHDAY Greg Raymer, American professional poker player
25th of June 1966 BIRTHDAY Dikembe Mutombo, Democratic Republic of the Congo basketball player
25th of June 1968 BIRTHDAY Vaios Karagiannis, Greek footballer
25th of June 1969 BIRTHDAY Matt Gallant, American television host
25th of June 1969 BIRTHDAY Zim Zum, American musician
25th of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Ariel Gore, American journalist and novelist
25th of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist (Children of Bodom)
25th of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Lucy Benjamin, British actress
25th of June 1970 BIRTHDAY Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete
25th of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Angela Kinsey, American actress
25th of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
25th of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Scott Maslen, English actor
25th of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Santiago de Tezanos, Uruguayan architect
25th of June 1971 BIRTHDAY Michael Tucker, American baseball player
25th of June 1972 BIRTHDAY Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
25th of June 1973 BIRTHDAY Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
25th of June 1973 BIRTHDAY Milan Hnilicka, Czech ice hockey player
25th of June 1974 BIRTHDAY Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
25th of June 1974 BIRTHDAY Nisha Ganatra, Canadian film director
25th of June 1974 BIRTHDAY Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
25th of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Chenoa, Argentine-born Spanish singer
25th of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Linda Cardellini, American actress
25th of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
25th of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
25th of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
25th of June 1975 BIRTHDAY Michele Merkin, American model
25th of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Jose Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
25th of June 1976 BIRTHDAY Carlos Nieto, Argentine-born Italian rugby player
25th of June 1977 BIRTHDAY Lola Ponce, Argentine-born Italian singer, actress and model
25th of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Aramis Ramirez, Dominican baseball player
25th of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Luke Scott, American baseball player
25th of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Aftab Shivdasani, Indian Bollywood actor
25th of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Layla El, British dancer, model and professional wrestler
25th of June 1978 BIRTHDAY Marcus Stroud, American football player
25th of June 1979 BIRTHDAY Richard Hughes, Scottish footballer
25th of June 1979 BIRTHDAY Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
25th of June 1979 BIRTHDAY La La, American actress and television personality
25th of June 1979 BIRTHDAY Busy Philipps, American actress
25th of June 1980 BIRTHDAY Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
25th of June 1981 BIRTHDAY Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
25th of June 1981 BIRTHDAY Sheridan Smith, English actress
25th of June 1981 BIRTHDAY Pooja Umashanker, Indian actress
25th of June 1982 BIRTHDAY Rain, Korean singer and actor
25th of June 1982 BIRTHDAY Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
25th of June 1983 BIRTHDAY Todd Cooper, English swimmer
25th of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Indigo, American actress
25th of June 1984 BIRTHDAY Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
25th of June 1985 BIRTHDAY Daniel Bard, American baseball player
25th of June 1985 BIRTHDAY Karim Matmour, Algerian soccer player
25th of June 1986 BIRTHDAY Megan Burns, English actress and singer
25th of June 1986 BIRTHDAY Charlie Davies, American soccer player
25th of June 1986 BIRTHDAY Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
25th of June 1993 BIRTHDAY Barney Clark, English actor
25th of June 2002 BIRTHDAY Mason Vale Cotton, American actor
25th of June 0253 DEATH Pope Cornelius
25th of June 0635 DEATH Emperor Gaozu, first Emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (Born 566)
25th of June 1134 DEATH King Niels of Denmark (Born 1064)
25th of June 1218 DEATH Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader (Born 1160)
25th of June 1483 DEATH Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer
25th of June 1522 DEATH Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian composer (Born 1451)
25th of June 1533 DEATH Mary Tudor, English-born Queen consort of Louis XII of France (Born 1496)
25th of June 1579 DEATH Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (Born 1541)
25th of June 1593 DEATH Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (Born 1541)
25th of June 1634 DEATH John Marston, English playwright (Born 1576)
25th of June 1638 DEATH Juan Perez de Montalban, Spanish writer (Born 1602)
25th of June 1665 DEATH Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (Born 1630)
25th of June 1669 DEATH Francois de Vendome, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (Born 1616)
25th of June 1671 DEATH Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (Born 1598)
25th of June 1673 DEATH Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, Captain-Lieutenant of the Musketeers of the Guard under Louis XIV of France (Born c. 1611)
25th of June 1686 DEATH Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (Born 1626)
25th of June 1715 DEATH Jean du Casse, French admiral (Born 1646)
25th of June 1767 DEATH Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (Born 1681)
25th of June 1792 DEATH Thomas Peters, one of the founding fathers of Sierra Leone (Born 1738)
25th of June 1798 DEATH Thomas Sandby, English architect (Born 1721)
25th of June 1822 DEATH E. T. A. Hoffmann, German writer (Born 1776)
25th of June 1838 DEATH Francois Nicolas Benoit, Baron Haxo, French general (Born 1774)
25th of June 1861 DEATH Abd-ul-Mejid I, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1823)
25th of June 1866 DEATH Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (Born 1803)
25th of June 1868 DEATH Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (Born 1811)
25th of June 1870 DEATH David Heaton, American Congressional Representative (Born 1823)
25th of June 1875 DEATH Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (Born 1796)
25th of June 1876 DEATH George Armstrong Custer, American Army officer (Born 1839)
25th of June 1876 DEATH Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout, brother of George Armstrong Custer (Born 1848)
25th of June 1876 DEATH Myles Keogh, Irish soldier of fortune, veteran of the American Civil War (Born 1840)
25th of June 1876 DEATH Thomas Custer, American Army officer, two-time Medal of Honor recipient, brother of George Armstrong Custer (Born 1845)
25th of June 1876 DEATH James C. Calhoun, American Army Lieutenant, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (Born 1845)
25th of June 1882 DEATH Francois Jouffroy, French sculptor (Born 1806)
25th of June 1884 DEATH Hans Rott, Austrian composer (Born 1858)
25th of June 1916 DEATH Thomas Eakins, American artist (Born 1844)
25th of June 1918 DEATH Jake Beckley, American baseball player (Born 1867)
25th of June 1937 DEATH Colin Clive, British actor (Born 1900)
25th of June 1944 DEATH Lucha Reyes, Mexican mariachi singer (Born 1906)
25th of June 1948 DEATH William C. Lee, U.S. Army general, known as the "father of the U.S. Airborne" (Born 1895)
25th of June 1949 DEATH Buck Freeman, American baseball player (Born 1871)
25th of June 1959 DEATH Charles Starkweather, American spree killer (Born 1938)
25th of June 1960 DEATH Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (Born 1869)
25th of June 1971 DEATH John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1880)
25th of June 1972 DEATH Jan Matulka, American painter (Born 1890)
25th of June 1974 DEATH Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (Born 1893)
25th of June 1976 DEATH Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (Born 1909)
25th of June 1979 DEATH Philippe Halsman, American photographer (Born 1906)
25th of June 1983 DEATH Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (Born 1916)
25th of June 1984 DEATH Michel Foucault, French philosopher (Born 1926)
25th of June 1985 DEATH Morris Mason, American murderer (Born 1954)
25th of June 1987 DEATH Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (Born 1920)
25th of June 1988 DEATH Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born American guitarist (Anthym, What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (Born 1962)
25th of June 1990 DEATH Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer (Born 1940)
25th of June 1992 DEATH Jerome Brown, American football player (Born 1965)
25th of June 1995 DEATH Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1903)
25th of June 1996 DEATH Sir Arthur Snelling, British ambassador (Born 1914)
25th of June 1997 DEATH Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (Born 1910)
25th of June 1998 DEATH Lounes Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (Born 1956)
25th of June 1999 DEATH Fred Feast, English actor (Born 1929)
25th of June 2002 DEATH Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (Born 1934)
25th of June 2003 DEATH Lester Maddox, American politician, 75th Governor of Georgia (Born 1915)
25th of June 2005 DEATH John Fiedler, American actor (Born 1925)
25th of June 2006 DEATH Jaap Penraat, Dutch architect (Born 1918)
25th of June 2007 DEATH Mahasti, Iranian singer (Born 1946)
25th of June 2007 DEATH Jeeva, Indian film director (Born 1963)
25th of June 2007 DEATH J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer and teacher (Born 1933)
25th of June 2008 DEATH Lyall Watson, South African anthropologist and writer (Born 1939)
25th of June 2009 DEATH Michael Jackson, American singer and pop icon (Born 1958)
25th of June 2009 DEATH Farrah Fawcett, American actress (Born 1947)
25th of June 2009 DEATH Sky Saxon, American singer (The Seeds) (Born 1937)
25th of June 2009 DEATH Anil Wilson, Indian educationist (Born 1947)
25th of June 2009 DEATH Yasmine, Belgian singer (Born 1972)
25th of June 2010 DEATH Alan Plater, English playwright (Born 1935)
25th of June 2010 DEATH Richard B. Sellars, American business executive (Born 1915)