June 25

2024 Calendar

June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 189 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

253 – Pope Cornelius is executed by beheading.
524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vezeronce.
841 – Battle of Fontenay: Forces lead by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg, the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and electors of Germany.
1658 – Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
1678 – Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia becomes the first woman to get a Doctorate of Philosophy, graduating from the University of Padua.
1741 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Hungary.
1786 – Gavriil Pribylov discovers Saint George Island in the Pribilof Islands (now belonging to Alaska, US) in the Bering Sea.
1788 – Virginia ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 10th state of the United States.
1876 – Battle of the Little Big Horn and the death of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1888 – Fire destroys Sundsvall, Sweden.
1900 – Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts of great historical significance, in the Magao Caves at Dunhuang, China.

1901 – 2000

1903 – Marie Curie announces the discovery of radium.
1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird" is first performed in Paris.
1935 – Colombia and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.
1938 – Dr. Douglas Hyde is elected the first President of Ireland.
1940 – World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany.
1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Czestochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1944 – World War II: The Nordic countries' biggest battle of the war, of Tali-Ihantala, begins.
1945 – Seán T. O'Kelly is elected the second President of Ireland.
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (Diary of Anne Frank) is first published.
1948 – The Berlin airlift begins.
1949 – "Long-Haired Hare", starring Bugs Bunny, is released in theatres.
1950 – The beginning of the Korean War.
1953 – In the UK, the murderer John Christie is sentenced to death.
1959 – Éamon de Valera is elected the third President of Ireland.
1960 – Two cryptographers working on the US National Security Agency leave for vacation in Mexico, and from there they defect to the Soviet Union.
1967 – First global satellite television programme – "Our World".
1973 – Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the fourth President of Ireland.
1975 – Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
1975 – A State of Emergency is declared in India.
1976 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in New Guinea kills 422 people.
1978 – The Rainbow flag for Gay pride is flown for the first time in San Francisco.
1978 – Argentina wins the FIFA World Cup, beating the Netherlands 3-1 in extra time.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – A match-fixing scandal erupts after West Germany and Austria both qualify from the group stage of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in a very slow-paced match, at Algeria's expense.
1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of the recruits in the military.
1988 – In West Germany, the Netherlands wins the UEFA European Championship, defeating the Soviet Union 2-0. In the game, Dutch striker Marco van Basten scores a goal that is widely considered to be the best in European Championship history.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 – David Letterman airs his last episode of Late Night with David Letterman.
1993 – Kim Campbell is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
1993 – Tansu Ciller becomes the first female Prime Minister of Turkey.
1993 – Vienna Declaration is adopted by World Conference on Human Rights.
1996 – Khobar Towers bombing leaves 19 U.S. servicemen dead in Saudi Arabia.
1997 – The Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat erupts, killing 19 people.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space Station Mir.
1998 – Microsoft Windows 98 is released.
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 – The American soap opera Another World airs its 8891st and final episode.

From 2001

2001 – A typhoon strikes Fujian province of China, killing over 100 people.
2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
2007 – British soldiers leave Northern Ireland after 37 years.
2009 – Pop star Michael Jackson dies suddenly, aged 50, leading to a worldwide outpouring of grief.
2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani becomes the 8th Emir of Qatar.
2014 – An explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, kills over 20 people.

Births

Up to 1900

1242 – Beatrice of England, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1275)
1328 – William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
1373 – Joanna II of Naples (d. 1435)
1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1568 – Gunilla Bielke, Queen of Sweden (d. 1597)
1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1646 – Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, Italian philosopher (d. 1684)
1715 – Jean-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
1726 – Thomas Pennant, British naturalist (d. 1798)
1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1768 – Lazare Hoche, French general (d. 1797)
1799 – David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)
1821 – Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina (d. 1906)
1825 – James Farnell, Australian politician, 8th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1888)
1842 – Eloy Alfaro, 15th President of Ecuador (d. 1912)
1852 – Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
1858 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
1860 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (d. 1956)
1863 – Emile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat (d. 1935)
1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1941)
1865 – Robert Henri, painter (d. 1929)
1870 – Yi Jun-yong, Korean Joseon Dynasty politician (d. 1917)
1884 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
1886 – Henry H. Arnold, American general (d. 1950)
1887 – Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian writer and journalist (d. 1938)
1887 – George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director and actor (d. 1995)
1894 – Hermann Oberth, physicist (d. 1989)
1896 – Alfred Anderson, Scottish centenarian and World War I veteran (d. 2005)
1900 – Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)
1900 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (d. 1979)

1901 – 1950

1902 – Prince Chichibu of Japan (d. 1953)
1903 – George Orwell, English writer (d. 1950)
1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1903 – Bob Skelton, American swimmer (d. 1977)
1904 – Vladimir Kokkinaki, Russian test pilot (d. 1985)
1905 – Rupert Wildt, German-American astronomer (d. 1976)
1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (d. 1973)
1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist (d. 1980)
1912 – William T. Cahill, American politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1913 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
1915 – Peter Lind Hayes, actor (d. 1998)
1917 – Nils Karlsson, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2012)
1917 – Claude Seignolle, French author (d. 2018)
1921 – Heinrich Windelen, German politician (d. 2015)
1923 – Nicholas Mosley, British writer (d. 2017)
1923 – Sam Francis, American painter (d. 1994)
1924 – Sidney Lumet, American actor, director and producer (d. 2011)
1925 – June Lockhart, American actress
1925 – Robert Venturi, American architect (d. 2018)
1926 – Margaret Anstee, British diplomat (d. 2016)
1926 – Ingeborg Bachmann, writer (d. 1973)
1926 – Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge and politician (d. 2015)
1927 – Antal Roka, Hungarian athlete (d. 1970)
1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist (d. 2017)
1928 – Peyo, Belgian comic book artist (d. 1992)
1928 – Alex Toth, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
1929 – Eric Carle, American children's writer (d. 2021)
1929 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (d. 2014)
1930 – George Murdock, American actor (d. 2012)
1931 – Mrunalini Devi Puar, Indian educator (d. 2015)
1931 – V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
1932 – George Sluizer, Dutch filmmaker (d. 2014)
1932 – Peter Blake, British artist
1933 – James Meredith, American civil rights activist
1935 – Charles Sheffield, English mathematician, physicist and science fiction author (d. 2002)
1935 – Larry Kramer, American writer and activist
1936 – Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 3rd President of Indonesia, 1998 – 1999
1937 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
1940 – Denys Arcand, French-Canadian movie director, screenwriter and producer
1940 – Peer Augustinski, German actor (d. 2014)
1940 – Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
1942 – Michel Tremblay, Canadian playwright
1945 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
1945 – Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (d. 2019)
1946 – Roméo Dallaire, Canadian senator
1946 – Ian McDonald, British musician
1949 – Brigitte Bierlein, Austrian jurist and Chancellor of Austria

1951 – 1975

1952 – Martin Gerschwitz, German singer-songwriter, musician and composer
1954 – Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1954 – Mario Lessard, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 – David Paich, American singer-songwriter
1954 – Alison Leslie, British diplomat
1955 – Terry Chimes, musician
1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and writer (d. 2018)
1957 – Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player
1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper
1960 – Aldo Serena, Italian footballer
1960 – Brian Hayward, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Ricky Gervais, British comedian and actor
1961 – Timur Bekmambetov, Kazakhstani producer and director
1962 – Phill Jupitus, British comedian and broadcaster
1963 – George Michael, British singer (d. 2016)
1963 – Yann Martel, Spanish-Canadian writer
1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – John Benjamin Hickey, American actor
1964 – Johnny Herbert, British Formula One driver
1964 – Greg Raymer, American poker player
1966 – Richard Matt, American murderer and prison escapee (d. 2015)
1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, basketball player
1969 – Zim Sum, American guitarist
1970 – Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1971 – Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
1971 – Scott Maslen, English actor
1971 – Jason Lewis, American actor
1972 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 – Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Libyan politician
1973 – Milan Hnilicka, Czech ice hockey player
1973 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
1973 – Sunetra Sarker, English actress
1974 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
1975 – Derek Adams, Scottish footballer and coach
1975 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
1975 – Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player

From 1976

1976 – José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
1976 – Carlos Niesto, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1976 – Iestyn Harris, Welsh rugby player
1976 – Gavin Williamson, English politician
1977 – Lola Ponce, Argentine-born Italian singer, actress and model
1979 – Daniel Jensen, Danish footballer
1979 – La La, American actress and TV host
1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1981 – Sheridan Smith, English actress and singer
1981 – Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
1982 – Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
1982 – Rain, Korean singer and actor
1982 – Cécile Cassel, French actress and singer
1983 – Marc Janko, Austrian footballer
1984 – Lauren Bush, American model and fashion designer
1985 – Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
1985 – Hanna Pérez Moza, Mexican singer (Ha*Ash)
1985 – Karim Matmour, Algerian footballer
1986 – Gabriele Grunewald, American runner (d. 2019)
1986 – Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
1986 – Charlie Davies, American soccer player
1987 – Claudio Corti, Italian motorcycle racer
1987 – Alissa Czisny, American figure skater
1988 – Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player
1989 – Edgar Morais, Portuguese actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1989 – Rafael Morais, Portuguese actor, director and screenwriter
1991 – Kyousuke Hamao, Japanese actor, singer and model
1991 – Victor Wanyama, Kenyan footballer
1991 – Simone Zaza, Italian footballer
1993 – Barney Clark, English actor
1997 – Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer
2002 – Mason Vale Cotton, American actor

Deaths

Up to 1900

253 – Pope Cornelius
635 – Emperor Gaozu, 1st Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China (b. 566)
1134 – King Niels of Denmark (b. 1034)
1218 – Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Norman crusader (b. 1160)
1291 – Eleanor of Provence (b. 1223)
1533 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (b. 1496)
1579 – Hatano Hideharu, Japanese daimyo and samurai (b. 1541)
1593 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician (b. 1541)
1634 – John Marston, English playwright (b. 1576)
1638 – Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
1665 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria, regent of Tyrol and Further Austria (b. 1630)
1671 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598)
1686 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter (b. 1626)
1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (b. 1681)
1792 – Thomas Peters, Sierra Leone founding father (b. 1738)
1822 – E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer, composer, and painter (b. 1776)
1857 – Langdon Cheves, American politician (b. 1776)
1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1864 – King William I of Württemberg (b. 1781)
1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1876 – George Armstrong Custer, American army officer (b. 1839)
1876 – Thomas Custer, American army officer (b. 1845)
1876 – Boston Custer, American guide, forager, packer and scout (b. 1848)
1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor (b. 1806)
1884 – Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
1886 – Jean-Louis Beaudry, 11th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1809)
1889 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (b. 1831)
1898 – Ferdinand Julius Cohn, German botanist and microbiologist (b. 1828)

1901 – 2000

1906 – Stanford White, American architect (b. 1853)
1916 – Thomas Eakins, artist (b. 1844)
1922 – Satyendranath Dutta, Bengali poet (b. 1882)
1929 – Georges Courteline, French dramatist and novelist (b. 1858)
1932 – Howard Valentine, American track and field athlete (b. 1881)
1933 – Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (b. 1868)
1937 – Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
1939 – Dick Seaman, English racing driver (b. 1913)
1944 – Dénes Berinkey, 18th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1871)
1944 – Lucha Reyes, Mexican singer (b. 1906)
1948 – William C. Lee, U.S. general (b. 1895)
1949 – Buck Freeman, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1960 – Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1971 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician (b. 1880)
1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
1976 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (b. 1909)
1977 – Bob Skelton, American swimmer (b. 1903)
1979 – Dave Fleischer, American animator, director and producer (b. 1894)
1983 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
1983 – Oddbjorn Hagen, Norwegian skier (b. 1908)
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (b. 1962)
1992 – James Stirling, British architect (b. 1926)
1995 – Warren E. Burger, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice (b. 1907)
1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist (b. 1905)
1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist, movie maker and inventor (b. 1910)
1999 – Tommy Ivan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)

From 2001

2003 – Lester Maddox, segregationist Governor of Georgia (b. 1915)
2006 – Kenneth Griffith, British actor and director (b. 1921)
2008 – Erika Crusardson, artist and actress (b. 1975)
2009 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947)
2009 – Michael Jackson, American entertainer and singer (b. 1958)
2009 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1937)
2011 – Margaret Tyzack, British actress (b. 1931)
2013 – Robert E. Gilka, American photographer and journalist (b. 1916)
2014 – Ana Maria Matute, Spanish writer (b. 1925)
2014 – Nigel Calder, English science writer (b. 1931)
2014 – Arvid Jacobsen, Norwegian newspaper editor (b. 1938)
2015 – Patrick Macnee, English-American actor (b. 1922)
2016 – Bill Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1929)
2016 – Giuseppe Ferrara, Italian movie director (b. 1932)
2016 – Patrick Mayhew, British politician, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. 1929)
2016 – Nicole Courcel, French actress (b. 1931)
2016 – Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, Indian writer (b. 1926)
2017 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (b. 1938)
2017 – Elsa Daniel, Argentine actress (b. 1938)
2017 – K. R. Mohanan, Indian film director (b. 1947)
2017 – José Manuel Mourinho Félix, Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2017 – Walter Fillmore, American general (b. 1933)
2018 – Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1920)
2018 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television presenter (b. 1941)
2018 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer and critic of Apartheid (b. 1930)
2018 – James M. Keck, American lieutenant general (b. 1921)
2019 – Kevin McKenna, Irish politician (b. 1945)
2019 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)

Observances

Independence Day (Mozambique)
National Day of Slovenia and Croatia
Statehood Day (Virginia)
National Catfish Day (United States)
Arbor Day (Philippines)