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Date | Description | Type |
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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) |