Tuesday, June 25, 2013

On This Day in History - June 25

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!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

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. 

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

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.  

1788 - Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution and became the 10th state of the United States.  

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."

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.

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

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)

1942 - British premier Winston Churchill travels from US to London

1942 - Maj Gen Dwight Eisenhower appointed commander of US forces in Europe

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

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 - KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting

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.  

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

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