Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
There was a slaughter of Jews in Germany during the first Crusade. Barbed wire was patented on this day in history.Three states were admitted back to the United States more than three years after the official end to the Civil War. The Battle of the Little Bighorn took place on this date. Hitler played the part of triumphant conqueror, visiting Paris. One year later, Finland declared war on the Soviet Union, and Germany invaded Dubno in Poland, and allowed the Ukranians to do with the Jews there as they would (12,000 died). The Korean War began on this day in history. The first color television transmission ever was broadcast by CBS. The tennis shoe was introduced. Madagascar gained independence from France. Iraq claimed that Kuwait belonged to it. This was an important date a couple of times in relatively early Beatles history. The 1,500th goal in World Cup history was scored, and record hot temperatures in Texas and New Mexico came on this date in 1994.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
• 253 - St Lucius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
841 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeated Lothar at the Battle of Fontenay.
1080 - At Brixen, a council of bishops declared Pope Gregory to be deposed and Archbishop Guibert as antipope Clement III.
1096 - First Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
1139 - Battle of Ourique: Afonso I defeats Moors
• 1178 - 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on Moon
1183 - Peace of Konstanz
1243 - Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV
1298 - Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany
1500 - Pope Alexander VI accept Treaty of Granada
1580 - The Book of Concord was first published. The book is a collection of doctrinal standards of the Lutheran Church.
1606 - Alkmaarse clergy asks "Great Dertelheyt"
1606 - St Jansday is forbidden
1607 - Mentally ill emperor Rudolf II signs Treaty of Lieben, giving up Austria, Hungary & Moravia
Royal France
• 1621 - French government army occupies Fort St Jean d'Angély at La Rochelle
1630 - Fork introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1638 - Lunar eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in US
1646 - Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies Oxford
• 1658 - Aurangzeb proclaimed himself emperor of the Moghuls in India.
1658 - Spanish garrison at Duinkerk surrenders to French and British
• 1667 - Dr Jean-Baptiste Denys, French doctor, performs 1st blood transfusion
1672 - First recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
1675 - Battle at Rathenow: Brandenburgers beat Sweden
1678 - Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
1716 - Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
1749 - General fast because of drought in MA
• 1767 - Mexican Indians rioted as Jesuit priests were ordered home.
An image of the iconic "We the People" wording of the Constitution.
• Virginia officially became the tenth state to ratify the Constitution on this day in 1788, thus becoming the tenth state of the Union.
• 1794 - French troops occupy Charleroi
1798 - US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1834 - Pope Gregory XVI's encyclical "Singulari nos" published
1835 - First building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1861 - Western Virginia campaign
1862 - Battle of Oak Grove, VA (Orchard, Henrico, French's Field) (Kings's Schoolhouse) Day 1 of 7 Days
1863 - US General George Meade replaces General Hooker to be more aggressive
1864 - Horse tramway at the Hague, opened
1864 - Union troops surrounding Petersburg, VA, began digging tunnels and building a mine tunnel underneath the Confederate lines.
1867 - First barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1868 - The U.S. Congress enacted legislation granting an eight-hour day to workers employed by the Federal government.
1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1868 - Pres Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day
1870 - Opera "Die Walkure" is produced (Munich)
1870 - In Spain, Queen Isabella abdicated in favor of Alfonso XII.
• 1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne, death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the 210 men of U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn in Montana. The event is known as "Custer's Last Stand."
June 25, 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn On this day in 1876, Native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River. Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, leaders of the Sioux tribe on the Great Plains, strongly resisted the mid-19th-century efforts of the U.S. government to confine their people to reservations. In 1875, after gold was discovered in South Dakota's Black Hills, the U.S. Army ignored previous treaty agreements and invaded the region. This betrayal led many Sioux and Cheyenne tribesmen to leave their reservations and join Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in Montana. By the late spring of 1876, more than 10,000 Native Americans had gathered in a camp along the Little Bighorn River--which they called the Greasy Grass--in defiance of a U.S. War Department order to return to their reservations or risk being attacked. In mid-June, three columns of U.S. soldiers lined up against the camp and prepared to march. A force of 1,200 Native Americans turned back the first column on June 17. Five days later, General Alfred Terry ordered Custer's 7th Cavalry to scout ahead for enemy troops. On the morning of June 25, Custer drew near the camp and decided to press on ahead rather than wait for reinforcements. At mid-day, Custer's 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Among the Native Americans, word quickly spread of the impending attack. The older Sitting Bull rallied the warriors and saw to the safety of the women and children, while Crazy Horse set off with a large force to meet the attackers head on. Despite Custer's desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and every last one of his soldier were dead. The Battle of Little Bighorn--also called Custer's Last Stand--marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The gruesome fate of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. Meanwhile, the U.S. government increased its efforts to subdue the tribes. Within five years, almost all of the Sioux and Cheyenne would be confined to reservations.
1877 - In Philadelphia, PA, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil at the Centennial Exhibition.
1888 - Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison
1894 - American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
1903 - Yanks and White Sox end deadlocked at 6-6 in 18
1903 - Boston Beaneater Wiley Piatt is only 20th-century pitcher to lose 2 complete games in one day, falling to Pittsburgh 1-0 & 5-3
1905 - Warsaw & Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1906 - Pittsburgh millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw, shot and killed Stanford White. White, a prominent architect, had a tryst with Florence Evelyn Nesbit before she married Thaw. The shooting took place at the premeire of Mamzelle Champagne in New York.
1909 - George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
1910 - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1910 - The U.S. Congress authorized the use of postal savings stamps.
1913 - Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
1913 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
Jun 25, 1915: Germans release statement on use of poison gas at Ypres On this day in 1915, the German press publishes an official statement from the country's war command addressing the German use of poison gas at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres two months earlier. The German firing of more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres in Belgium on April 22, 1915, had shocked and horrified their Allied opponents in World War I and provoked angry outbursts against what was seen as inexcusable barbarism, even in the context of warfare. As Sir John French, commander in chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), wrote heatedly of the German attacks at Ypres: "All the scientific resources of Germany have apparently been brought into play to produce a gas of so virulent and poisonous a nature that any human being brought into contact with it is first paralyzed and then meets with a lingering and agonizing death." The German statement of June 25, 1915, was a response to this outraged reaction by the Allies; they considered it hypocritical, claiming that their opponents–namely the French–had been manufacturing and employing gas in battle well before the Second Battle of Ypres. "For every one who has kept an unbiased judgment," the statement began, "the official assertions of the strictly accurate and truthful German military administration will be sufficient to prove the prior use of asphyxiating gases by our opponents." It went on to quote from a memorandum issued by the French War Ministry on February 21, 1915, containing instructions for using "these so-called shells with stupefying gases that are being manufactured by our central factories?[that] contain a fluid which streams forth after the explosion, in the form of vapors that irritate the eyes, nose, and throat." This memo, the Germans concluded, proved that "the French in their State workshops manufactured shells with asphyxiating gases fully half a year ago at least" and that they must have manufactured sufficient numbers for the War Ministry to issue directions on how to use the shells. "What hypocrisy when the same people grow indignant because the Germans much later followed them on the path they had pointed out!" Though the French were, in fact, the first to employ gas during World War I–in August 1914 they used tear-gas grenades containing xylyl bromide to confront the initial German advance in Belgium and northeastern France–Germany was undoubtedly the first belligerent nation during the war to put serious thought and work into the development of chemical weapons that were not merely irritants, like xylyl bromide, but could be used in large quantities to inflict a major defeat on the enemy. In addition to chlorine gas, first used to deadly effect by the Germans at Ypres, phosgene gas and mustard gas were also employed on the battlefields of World War I, mostly by Germany but also by Britain and France, who were forced to quickly catch up to the Germans in the realm of chemical-weapons technology. Though the psychological impact of poison gas was undoubtedly great, its actual impact on the war–like that of the tank–is debatable, due to the low rate of fatality associated with the gas attacks. In total, the war saw some 1.25 million gas casualties but only 91,000 deaths from gas poisoning, with over 50 percent of those fatalities suffered by the poorly equipped Russian army.
1916 - Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov
• 1917 - The first American fighting troops landed in France.
1918 - Baku-Turkish communist party forms
1919 - First advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13)
• 1919 - Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg
• 1920 - League of Nations places Intl head of Justice in Hague
1920 - The Greeks took 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna.
1921 - Samuel Gompers was elected head of the AFL for the 40th time.
1921 - Charlie McCartney scores 300 in 205 mins Aust v Notts
1925 - Military putsch under Gen Theodorus Pangulos in Greece
1927 - WVO soccer team forms in Oosterhout
1928 - NY Giant Fred Lindstrom ties record of 9 hits in a doubleheader
1929 - Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1932 - 36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY
1932 - Commencement of India's 1st Test cricket, v England at Lord's
1934 - Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets v Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
1934 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2
1934 - Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times
1935 - Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium
1937 - Cub Augie Galan becomes 1st player to switch hit HRs in a game
1938 - "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1938 - Gaelic scholar Douglas Hyde was inaugurated as the first president of the Irish Republic.
1938 - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week
• 1940 - Adolf Hitler viewed Eiffel Tower and grave of Napoleon in France
1941 - -26] Russian counter attack at Rovno
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• 1941 - FDR issues Executive Order 8802 forbidding discrimination
1941 - Fair Employment Practices Commission established
• 1941 - Finland declared war on Soviet Union
• 1941 - Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
1942 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
Statue of soldier, author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London
1942 - British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London
General Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States
• 1942 - Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe
Jun 25, 1942: Eisenhower assumes command of U.S. troops in Europe On this day in 1942, General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes commander of all U.S. troops in the European theater of World War II, continuing the steady ascent in military rank that would culminate in his appointment as supreme Allied commander of all forces in Europe in 1943. As U.S. commander, Ike developed diplomatic skills that he would later employ as America's 34th president. U.S. Army military historians Carl Vuono and M.P.W. Stone have described Eisenhower as a dynamic leader who successfully planned and oversaw military strategy in a complex global environment. These qualities came in handy when Eisenhower was elected president in 1952. The Cold War between democratic and communist nations was in full swing and Eisenhower's ability to form cooperative relationships, his military experience and calm demeanor reassured anxious Americans. Ike attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from 1911 to 1915, where he cultivated friendships with future generals Omar Bradley, James A. Van Fleet and Joseph T. McNarney. After graduating, Eisenhower served in relative obscurity stateside and in Panama, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He went to the Army War College in 1928 and a year later worked as an assistant in the secretary of war's office. In 1935, he served as an assistant to General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. With war with Japan seeming imminent, Eisenhower returned to the states in 1941 to become a brigadier general in the Third Army. Between February and June 1942, Eisenhower was assigned to the War Department and rose rapidly within its ranks. As the leading general of the U.S. forces in Europe, Eisenhower was directly involved with planning and executing U.S. military strategy in the fight to liberate Europe from Germany and fascist Italy. In November 1942, Eisenhower went on to become the commander of all Allied forces in North Africa, where he led the successful invasions of Sicily and Italy and dealt with irascible British General Bernard Montgomery and exiled French leader Charles de Gaulle. A year later he was appointed supreme commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces and planned and led the invasion of Normandy, France, more commonly referred to as D-Day. Eisenhower stayed on as general of the U.S. Army until 1951, when he resigned his commission to run his successful campaign for president. For two terms, Ike the war hero presided as the nation's commander in chief. In a speech he gave upon leaving office in 1961, Eisenhower famously warned Americans of the growing power of what he termed the military-industrial complex, or the potential for danger that existed from the relation of the nation's commercial and military interests.
1943 - Crematory III at Birkenau is finished
1943 - Racial unrest in Detroit
1943 - Seyss-Inquart orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
1944 - British assault at Caen Normandy
1945 - Allied landing at Ternate Molukkas
1945 - Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo announce fall of Okinawa
• 1946 - Ho Chi Minh traveled to France for talks on Vietnamese independence.
1947 - First edition of Anne Frank's "The Back of House" published
1947 - Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Tami Mauriello
1947 - Tennis shoe introduced
1948 - The Soviet Union tightened its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city.
1948 - Joe Louis KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1948 - Harry Truman signs Displaced Persons Bill (205,000 Europeans to US)
1949 - Presidential election in Syria (some women allowed to vote)
1949 - Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1950 - Israeli airline El Al begins service
1950 - Johnny Pramesa (Reds) and Hank Thompson (Giants) hit inside the park HRs
1950 - Korean conflict begins; as North Korea invaded South Korea
Jun 25, 1950: Korean War begins Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years. Korea, a former Japanese possession, had been divided into zones of occupation following World War II. U.S. forces accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in southern Korea, while Soviet forces did the same in northern Korea. Like in Germany, however, the "temporary" division soon became permanent. The Soviets assisted in the establishment of a communist regime in North Korea, while the United States became the main source of financial and military support for South Korea. On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces surprised the South Korean army (and the small U.S. force stationed in the country), and quickly headed toward the capital city of Seoul. The United States responded by pushing a resolution through the U.N.'s Security Council calling for military assistance to South Korea. (Russia was not present to veto the action as it was boycotting the Security Council at the time.) With this resolution in hand, President Harry S. Truman rapidly dispatched U.S. land, air, and sea forces to Korea to engage in what he termed a "police action." The American intervention turned the tide, and U.S. and South Korean forces marched into North Korea. This action, however, prompted the massive intervention of communist Chinese forces in late 1950. The war in Korea subsequently bogged down into a bloody stalemate. In 1953, the United States and North Korea signed a cease-fire that ended the conflict. The cease-fire agreement also resulted in the continued division of North and South Korea at just about the same geographical point as before the conflict. The Korean War was the first "hot" war of the Cold War. Over 55,000 American troops were killed in the conflict. Korea was the first "limited war," one in which the U.S. aim was not the complete and total defeat of the enemy, but rather the "limited" goal of protecting South Korea. For the U.S. government, such an approach was the only rational option in order to avoid a third world war and to keep from stretching finite American resources too thinly around the globe. It proved to be a frustrating experience for the American people, who were used to the kind of total victory that had been achieved in World War II. The public found the concept of limited war difficult to understand or support and the Korean War never really gained popular support.
1950 - UN member states begin using integrated forces against N Korea
1951 - In New York, the first regular commercial color TV transmissions were presented on CBS using the FCC-approved CBS Color System. The public did not own color TV's at the time. It was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.
1952 - "Wish You Were Here" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 597 perfs
1952 - Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
1953 - First passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours
• 1953 - 86°F in Anchorage Alaska
1955 - "Can Can" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 892 performances
1955 - "Imogene Coca Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1956 - 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" & "Stockholm" (Cape Cod)
1956 - WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - "Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1959 - The Cuban government seized 2.35 million acres under a new agrarian reform law.
1959 - Eamon De Valera became president of Ireland at the age of 76.
1960 - Earthquake in NE Belgium
1960 - Madagascar gains independence of France
1961 - Balt and California use a record 16 pitchers in a game (8 each) in 14 inns
1961 - Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1962 - Inonu government forms in Turkey
1962 - Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) forms
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of unofficial non-denominational prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
1963 - Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies
• 1963 - JFK speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
1963 - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested
1964 - Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ)
1964 - WMCA (NYC) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th
• 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon Johnson ordered 200 naval personnel to Mississippi to assist in finding three missing civil rights workers.
1965 - Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kádár as premier of Hungary
• 1966 - Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 and; stays #1 for 2 weeks
1966 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1966 - Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
• 1967 - 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special
1967 - Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years
1967 - First global satellite television programme - Our World
1968 - Bobby Bonds (San Francisco Giants) hit a grand-slam home run in his first game with the Giants. He was the first player to debut with a grand-slam.
1969 - Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon
1970 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling (35 FR 7732), making it illegal for radio stations to put telephone calls on the air without the permission of the person being called.
1971 - Stevie Wonder releases "Where I'm Coming From"
1972 - Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball
• 1972 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1973 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France
1973 - Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m
1973 - Erskine Childers Jr. became president of Ireland after the retirement of Eamon De Valera.
1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admitted to the Senate Watergate Comittee that U.S. President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
• 1975 - Mozambique became independent. Samora Machel was sworn in as president after 477 years of Portuguese rule (National Day).
1976 - Ranger Toby Harrah is only shortstop not to handle a fielding chance in doubleheader
1977 - LBJ denies report he had a cancer during his presidency
1977 - Roy C Sullivan of Va is struck by lightning for 7th time!
• 1978 - Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires
1979 - "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
1979 - Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium
1980 - "Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
1981 - Supreme Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1981 - Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1981 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided that male-only draft registration was constitutional.
1982 - Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges
1982 - SF holds its 1st County Fair
1982 - Sec of State Alexander Haig Jr resigns, replaced by Schultz
1982 - Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1983 - "Evita" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances
1983 - India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1983 - Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
1984 - STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem
1985 - Fireworks factory near Hallett, OK explodes (21 die)
1985 - ABC’s "Monday Night Football" began with a new line-up. The trio was Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson.
1985 - New York Yankees officials enacted the rule that mandated that the team’s bat boys were to wear protective helmets during all games.
1986 - Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud
1986 - Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release
1986 - The U.S. Congress approved $100 million in aid to the Contras fighting in Nicaragua.
1987 - Austrian President Kurt Waldheim visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The meeting was controversial due to allegations that Waldheim had hidden his Nazi past.
1988 - "Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances
1988 - 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
1988 - Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game
1988 - Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
1988 - Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadóttir was elected (90+%)
1988 - Netherlands soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR)
1988 - Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
1989 - "Day By Day," last airs on NBC-TV
1989 - First US postmark dedicated to Lesbian and Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
1989 - Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils
1990 - "Dave Thomas Comedy Show," last airs on CBS-TV
1990 - 120°F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 - NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days
1990 - Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. "The right to die" decision was made in the Curzan vs. Missouri case.
• 1991 - The last Soviet troops left Czechoslovakia 23 years after the Warsaw Pact invasion.
Flag of Croatia
• 1991 - Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
1991 - Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1992 - "Les Miserables," opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague
1992 - Alexanders Department store closes all 11 stores
1992 - STS 50 launches (Columbia) 1993 - NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1993 - Parliamentary election in Morocco
1993 - Kim Campbell took office as Canada's first woman prime minister. She assumed power upon the resignation of Brian Mulroney.
1994 - 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
1994 - 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
1994 - 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
1994 - Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
1994 - Gay Games close in NYC
1994 - Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
1995 - Betsy King wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1995 - Rockies' Andres Galarraga is 4th to HR in 3 consecutive innings
1996 - The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
1997 - Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
1997 - Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby (Orbit 9)
• 1997 - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
1997 - Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
1997 - NHL approves franchises in Nash, Atlanta, Columbus, and Minn-St Paul
1997 - Progress M-34 Collides with and damages Mir Space Station
1997 - Jamaica issues a warrant for singer Sade, who fails to report to court on charges of failure to obey a cop who signaled her to stop
1997 - The Russian space station Mir was hit by an unmanned cargo vessel. Much of the power supply was knocked out and the station's Spektr module was severely damaged.
1997 - U.S. air pollution standards were significantly tightened by U.S. President Clinton.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the line-item veto thereby striking down presidential power to cancel specific items in tax and spending legislation.
1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that those infected with HIV are protected by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
1998 - Microsoft's "Windows 98" was released to the public.
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 - Germany's parliament approved a national Holocaust memorial to be built in Berlin.
2000 - U.S. and British researchers announced that they had completed a rough draft of a map of the genetic makeup of human beings. The project was 10 years old at the time of the announcement.
2000 - A Florida judge approved a class-action lawsuit to be filed against American Online (AOL) on behalf of hourly subscribers who were forced to view "pop-up" advertisements.
2007 - 2007 United Kingdom floods, parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire flood including Louth, Horncastle and worst affected, Hull.
2008 - Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky.
• 2009 - Michael Jackson, lifelong musician, pop singer, and superstar, dies at age 50.
2012 - 33 Syrian army officers defect to Turkey
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jun25.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
